Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

2.445 FORTY-FOURTH DISTRICT. § Subdivision 1.Senate district. Senate District 44 consists of the district as described in the order of the Minnesota Special Redistricting Panel in Wattson v. Simon, Nos. A21-0243, A21-0546 (February 15, 2022). § Subd. 2.House of representatives di…

2.585 FIFTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT. § Subdivision 1.Senate district. Senate District 58 consists of that district as described in the order of the Minnesota Special Redistricting Panel in Wattson v. Simon, Nos. A21-0243, A21-0546 (February 15, 2022). § Subd. 2.House of representatives d…

2.722 JUDICIAL DISTRICTS. § Subdivision 1.Description. Effective July 1, 1959, the state is divided into ten judicial districts composed of the following named counties, respectively, in each of which districts judges shall be chosen as hereinafter specified: 1. Goodhue, Dakota, …

2.724 CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT, DUTIES. § Subdivision 1.Appointments. When public convenience and necessity require it, the chief justice of the supreme court may assign any judge of any court to serve and discharge the duties of judge of any court in a judicial district no…

2.731 NUMBER OF DISTRICTS. The state of Minnesota is divided into eight congressional districts, each of which is entitled to elect one representative to the Congress of the United States of America. History: 2 Ex1961 c 2 s 1

2.755 SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Notwithstanding the order of the Minnesota Special Redistricting Panel in Wattson v. Simon, Nos. A21-0243, A21-0546 (February 15, 2022), the seventh congressional district consists of the district as described in that order, with the modifica…

2.855 EIGHTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Notwithstanding the order of the Minnesota Special Redistricting Panel in Wattson v. Simon, Nos. A21-0243, A21-0546 (February 15, 2022), the eighth congressional district consists of the district as described in that order, with the modificati…

2.91 REDISTRICTING PLANS. § Subdivision 1.Distribution. Upon enactment of a redistricting plan for the legislature or for Congress, the Legislative Coordinating Commission shall deposit the plan with the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall provide copies of the relev…

2.92 ACCESS TO MULTIUNIT FACILITIES BY UNITED STATES CENSUS EMPLOYEES. § Subdivision 1.Access required. It is unlawful for a person, either directly or indirectly, to deny access to an apartment house, dormitory, nursing home, manufactured home park, other multiple unit facility …

2.93 INCARCERATED PERSONS IN DISTRICT PLANS. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this section, the definitions have the meanings given. (b) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of corrections. (c) "Director" means the director of the Legislative Coordinating Com…

16A.011 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. The definitions in this section apply to this chapter. § Subd. 2.Agency. Except when otherwise modified, "agency" includes an office, department, board, council, committee, authority, or commission of state government. § Subd. 3…

16A.575 APPROPRIATIONS; NOT DISCLOSING SOURCE. If money is appropriated from the state treasury and the appropriation does not disclose its source, the appropriation is from the general fund. History: Ex1971 c 3 s 97; 1988 c 469 art 1 s 1

3.011 SESSIONS. The legislature shall meet at the seat of government on the first Tuesday after the second Monday in January of each odd-numbered year. It shall also meet when called by the governor to meet in special session. History: 1973 c 1 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 1 s 1; 2023 c 6…

3.012 LEGISLATIVE DAY. For the purposes of the Minnesota Constitution, article IV, section 12, a legislative day is a day when either house of the legislature gives any bill a third reading, adopts a rule of procedure or organization, elects a university regent, confirms a gubern…

3.02 EVIDENCE OF MEMBERSHIP. For all purposes of organization of either house of the legislature, a certificate of election to it, duly executed by the secretary of state, is prima facie evidence of the right to membership of the person named in it. History: (25) RL s 10; 1969 c …

3.05 ORGANIZATION. At noon of the day appointed for convening the legislature, the members shall meet in their respective chambers. The lieutenant governor shall call the senate to order and the secretary of state, the house of representatives. In the absence of either officer, t…

3.055 OPEN MEETINGS. § Subdivision 1.Meetings to be open. Meetings of the legislature shall be open to the public, including sessions of the senate, sessions of the house of representatives, joint sessions of the senate and the house of representatives, and meetings of a standing…

3.056 DESIGNATION OF SUCCESSOR COMMITTEE. If a law assigns a power or duty to a named legislative committee or its chair, and the committee has been renamed or no longer exists, the speaker of the house or the senate Committee on Rules and Administration shall designate the succe…

3.06 OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. § Subdivision 1.Election. Thereupon, if a quorum is present, the houses shall elect the following officers, any of whom may be removed by resolution of the appointing body. The senate shall elect a president, who shall be a member of the senate, secre…

3.07 ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES. Each house, after its organization, may appoint and at pleasure remove the employees provided for by its permanent rules or recommended by its Committee on Rules. All officers and employees shall receive the compensation provided by the permanent rules …

3.073 ORGANIZATION OF SPECIAL SESSION. The officers elected, the rules adopted, and the committees established by the legislature and by each house during the preceding regular session shall serve and be in effect during a special session, except as the legislature or a house pro…

3.08 ELECTION; DUTIES. In addition to the duties prescribed by law, the officers and employees shall perform the services required of them by rule or vote of the appointing body or by direction of a committee of the appointing body. History: (32) RL s 16; 1947 c 233 s 3; 1988 c 4…

3.082 MEMBERS' EMPLOYMENT; CONTINUATION. A member of the legislature of the state of Minnesota who held a position, other than a temporary position, in the employ of a private employer in Minnesota at the commencement of service in a legislative session, who applies for reemploym…

3.083 RETENTION OF SENIORITY, FRINGE BENEFITS AND TENURE. § Subdivision 1.Entitlement to benefits and position. A member of the legislature who is continued in or restored to a position in accordance with section 3.082: (1) shall be continued or restored without loss of seniority…

3.084 LOBBYING ACTIVITIES PROHIBITED. § Subdivision 1.Definition. As used in this section, "lobbying" means engaging in activities that would require an individual to register as a lobbyist, as defined in section 10A.01, subdivision 21. § Subd. 2.Prohibition. (a) A sitting member…

3.087 RIGHT OF ACTION IN DISTRICT COURT. If a private employer fails or refuses to comply with sections 3.082 and 3.083, the district court where the private employer maintains a place of business may, upon the filing of a complaint by the member entitled to the benefits of secti…

3.088 LEAVE OF ABSENCE. § Subdivision 1.Leave of absence without pay. Subject to this section, any appointed officer or employee of a political subdivision, municipal corporation, or school district of the state or an institution of learning maintained by the state who serves as …

3.09 COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES. The compensation of officers and employees shall be at the rates fixed by the permanent rules of the electing or appointing body or recommended by its Committee on Rules. History: (33) RL s 17; 1907 c 229 s 1; 1909 c 132 s 1; Ex1936 c 115 s 1; Ex19…

3.095 LEGISLATIVE EMPLOYEES, LEAVES. The Legislative Coordinating Commission shall adopt plans for sick leave and annual leave for the employees of the legislature and of legislative committees and commissions. History: 1965 c 901 s 76; 1973 c 507 s 45; 1980 c 617 s 47; 1981 c 21…

3.096 TRANSFER OF LEAVE. An employee in the classified or unclassified service who accepts a position as an employee of the legislature shall have accrued vacation and sick leave transferred and placed to the employee's credit on the legislative records. An employee of the legisl…

3.099 MEMBERS; COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES, FLEXIBLE SESSIONS. § Subdivision 1.Paydays; mileage; per diem. The compensation of each member of the legislature is due on the first day of the regular legislative session of the term and payable in equal parts on January 15, in the firs…

3.101 LIVING EXPENSES. A member of the legislature in addition to the compensation and mileage otherwise provided by law shall be reimbursed for living and other expenses incurred in the performance of duties or engaging in official business during a regular or special session an…

3.103 SPECIAL SESSION LIVING EXPENSES. Each member of the legislature, during a special session, shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the performance of duties in the same amounts, for the same purposes, and in the same manner as authorized for senators and members of the…

3.14 CONTEMPTS. Each house may punish, as a contempt, a breach of its privileges, or of the privileges of its members, but only for the following offenses: (1) arresting or causing to be arrested, a member or officer in violation of the member's privilege from arrest; (2) disorde…

3.15 PUNISHMENT FOR CONTEMPT. Punishment for contempt shall be by imprisonment. The term of imprisonment shall not extend beyond the session at which it is inflicted. When either house shall direct the imprisonment of a person for a contempt the keeper of the jail of the county i…

3.151 DISTURBING LEGISLATURE OR INTIMIDATING MEMBER. A person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor who: (1) willfully disturbs the legislature, or either house of it, while in session; (2) commits disorderly conduct in the presence and view of either house, tending to interrupt its p…

3.153 LEGISLATIVE SUBPOENAS. § Subdivision 1.Commissions; committees. A joint legislative commission established by law and composed exclusively of legislators or a standing or interim legislative committee, by a two-thirds vote of its members, may request the issuance of subpoen…

3.16 MEMBERS, OFFICERS, AND ATTORNEYS EXCUSED FROM COURT DUTY. No member or officer of, or attorney employed by, the legislature shall be compelled to attend as a witness in a court of this state during a session of the legislature, or while attending a meeting of a legislative c…

3.17 JOURNALS. A journal of the daily proceedings in each house shall be printed and laid before each member at the beginning of the next day's session. After it has been publicly read and corrected, a copy, kept by the secretary and chief clerk, respectively, and a transcript as…

3.18 OTHER RECORDS. Each house may determine, by rule or resolution, the number of copies of its journal to be printed, and the form and contents of its other records. It may have printed, in an appendix to its journal, the documents it desires. If both houses order the same docu…

3.185 ALTERING DRAFT OF BILL. A person who fraudulently alters the draft of a bill or resolution which has been presented to either house of the legislature to be passed or adopted, with intent to procure its passage or adoption by either house or certification by the presiding o…

3.19 ENGROSSING AND ENROLLING. All bills shall be engrossed or enrolled as provided by section 3C.04 and the rules of the senate and the house of representatives or their joint rules. In engrossing or enrolling bills, copying machines and other labor saving devices and equipment …

3.191 ALTERING ENGROSSED BILL. A person who fraudulently alters the engrossed copy or enrollment of a bill which has been passed by the legislature, with intent to procure its approval by the governor, certification by the secretary of state, or printing or publication by the pri…

3.192 REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW OR RENEWED TAX EXPENDITURES. (a) Within 60 days after final enactment of a bill that creates, renews, or continues a tax expenditure, the chairs of the house of representatives and senate committees with primary jurisdiction over taxes must submit to th…

3.195 REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE. § Subdivision 1.Distribution of reports. (a) Except as provided in subdivision 4, a report to the legislature required of a department or agency shall be made, unless otherwise specifically required by law, by filing one copy with the Legislative…

3.196 AUDITS. The house of representatives and the senate shall each contract with the state auditor or a certified public accountant to perform an audit at least biennially. History: 1993 c 192 s 34