St. Paul, Minnesota — Today, the Minnesota House DFL announced the committee structure and chair assignments for the 2019-2020 biennium.
“We’ve streamlined the committee structure by creating fewer stops for bills in the areas of agriculture, transportation, and civil law,” said Speaker-designate Hortman. "We’re also creating committees to give attention to issues that affect Minnesotans’ lives but which have not received enough consideration previously, adding finance committees in the areas of Energy and Climate, Housing, Greater Minnesota Jobs and Economic Development, and Criminal Justice Reform. Senior members of the caucus will give much-needed attention to these critical areas.
“In the new committee areas and in many others, we expect to bring the Legislature out into communities throughout Minnesota.
“Finally, the legislative failures of the past four years have revealed that the Legislature needs to reform the way it conducts business, and I’m especially grateful to Representative Gene Pelowski for his willingness to serve Minnesotans by heading up our efforts to implement legislative process reforms. I am hopeful the Minnesota Senate will partner with us to make the legislature more efficient, effective, and transparent.
“Our caucus and our chairs represent communities from all geographic areas of the state, from the Iron Range to Austin, Eden Prairie to White Bear Lake, and the Twin Cities to Dilworth. Our committee structure and our membership will serve the interests of all Minnesotans as we consider legislation to build a Minnesota that works better for everyone.”
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Committee Name
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Chair
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Agriculture and Food Finance & Policy Division
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Poppe
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Capital Investment Division
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Murphy
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Commerce
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Halverson
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Education Finance Division
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Davnie
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Subcommittee on Early Childhood Finance & Policy
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Pinto*
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Education Policy
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Youakim
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Environment and Natural Resources Finance Division
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Hansen
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Subcommittee on Water
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Fischer
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Energy and Climate Finance & Policy Division
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Wagenius
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Environment and Natural Resources Policy
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Persell
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Ethics
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Murphy
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Government Operations
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Freiberg
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Subcommittee on Elections
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Dehn
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Subcommittee on Local Government
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Masin
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Greater Minnesota Jobs and Econ Dev Finance Division
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Pelowski
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Health and Human Services Finance Division
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Liebling
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Subcommittee on Long Term Care
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Schultz
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Subcommittee on Early Childhood Finance & Policy
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Pinto*
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Health and Human Services Policy
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Moran
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Higher Education Finance & Policy Division
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Bernardy
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Housing Finance & Policy Division
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Hausman
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Jobs & Economic Development Finance Division
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Mahoney
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Judiciary Finance & Civil Law Division
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Lesch
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Labor
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Sundin
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Legacy Finance Division
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Lillie
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Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Finance & Policy Division
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Mariani
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Subcommittee on Corrections
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Considine
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Rules and Legislative Administration
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Winkler
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Subcommittee on Legislative Process Reform
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Pelowski
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State Government Finance Division
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Nelson
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Taxes
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Marquart
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Property and Local Tax Division
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Loeffler
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Transportation Finance & Policy Division
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Hornstein
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Veterans and Military Affairs Finance & Policy Division
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Ecklund
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Ways and Means
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Carlson, L.
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* Subcommittee of two divisions
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Speaker-designate Hortman also appointed the following leadership staff to serve the DFL Caucus:
Sean Rahn, Executive Director, Majority Caucus
Susy Bates, Legislative Director to the Speaker
Brynn Hausz, Executive Assistant to the Majority Caucus
Susie Merthan, Director of Communications & Public Affairs
Ted Modrich, Press Secretary to the Majority Caucus
Kevin Labenz, Coordinator of Legislative Outreach
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