Committee deadlines

The Minnesota Senate set the committee deadlines for the 2011 Legislative session. The Minnesota House is expected to approve the measure as well. Here are the deadlines:

March 25th: Deadline for finance committees and the divisions of the House and Senate to report omnibus appropriation bills to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, other than a bill appropriating money for the acquisition and betterment of public lands and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature, or an omnibus tax bill.

April 29th: The first deadline for committees to act favorably on bills in the house of origin

May 6th: The second deadline for committees to act favorably on billw, or companions of bills, that met the first deadline in the other house.

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