House committees, meeting schedule announced for 2025-26 biennium

One of the first orders of business in preparing for the upcoming legislative session has been completed.

The respective caucus speaker-designates — current House Speaker Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) and current House Minority Leader Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring) — have jointly announced the House committee structure and the schedule lawmakers will follow when they convene Jan. 14, 2025.

The membership of the standing committees and division will be equally divided and chaired by DFL and Republican co-chairs. Committee membership will be determined at a later date.

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The results of the Nov. 5 election leave the House evenly divided at 67-67, the first time the body has been tied since 1979.

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The weekly schedule will remain largely the same, with two blocks of morning meetings on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday starting at 8:15 a.m.; two blocks of afternoon meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday; and one block of afternoon meetings Thursday.

There will also be one block of meetings scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday. There are no regularly scheduled meetings on Friday.

Floor sessions will be held Mondays and Thursdays, beginning at 3:30 p.m. both days.

The committee roster is as follows:

• Rules and Legislative Administration
• Ways and Means
• Agriculture Finance and Policy
• Capital Investment
• Children and Families Finance and Policy
• Commerce Finance and Policy
• Education Finance
• Education Policy
• Energy Finance and Policy
• Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
• Ethics
• Elections Finance and Government Operations
• Health Finance and Policy
• Higher Education Finance and Policy
• Housing Finance and Policy
• Human Services Finance and Policy
• Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
• Labor and Workforce Development Finance and Policy
• Legacy Finance
• Public Safety Finance and Policy
• State Government Finance and Policy
  • Veterans and Military Affairs Division
• Taxes
• Transportation Finance and Policy
• Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement