Minnesota Legislature
2018 committee deadlines set
By HPIS Staff
Members will spend more time in the House Chamber after the final committee deadline in 2018.
House and Senate leadership have set the following deadlines for committees to complete their business this session:
• Thursday, March 22 — Committees must to act favorably on bills in the house of origin.
• Thursday, March 29 — Committees must to act favorably on bills, or companions of bills, that met the first deadline in the other body.
• Friday, April 20 — Committees must act favorably on major appropriation and finance bills.
The deadlines do not apply to the House Capital Investment, Taxes, Ways and Means, or Rules and Legislative Administration committees, nor the Senate Capital Investment, Finance, Taxes or Rules and Administration committees.
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