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Text: Agreement for Special Session
2019

In order to finalize legislation critical to the health, well-being, and safety of the citizens of
Minnesota, the Governor of Minnesota and the below legislative leaders agree as follows:

1. The Governor will call a First Special Session to convene on Friday, May 24, 2019 at 10:00
a.m. at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota.

2. The activity of the legislature during the First Special Session must be confined to the
following bills and corresponding appropriations:
a. Revisor number 19-5218: The omnibus budget bill for legacy funds.
b. Revisor number 19-5219: The omnibus budget bill for environment and
Legislative Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources.
c. Revisor number 19-5220: The omnibus budget bill for E-12 education.
d. Revisor number 19-5221: The revisor's bill.
e. Revisor number 19-5222: The omnibus budget bill for state government.
f. Revisor number 19-5223: The omnibus budget bill for health and human services.
g. Revisor number 19-5224: The omnibus tax bill.
h. Revisor number 19-5225: The omnibus budget bill for transportation.
i. Revisor number 19-5226: The bonding bill.
j. Revisor number 19-5227: The omnibus budget bill for jobs and economic
development.
k. Revisor number 19-5228: The omnibus budget bill for the Judiciary, public safety,
and corrections.
l. Revisor number 19-5229: The omnibus budget bill for agriculture, housing, and
rural development.
m. Revisor number LCPR19-035: The omnibus pensions bill.
n. Additional bills as agreed in writing by the three leaders below.

3. With due regard to the individual rights and authorities of each member of the
Minnesota Legislature, the undersigned legislative leaders, as representatives of their
caucuses, agree that:
a. The legislative leaders will not support amendments to the above bills after the
bills are finalized by agreement of the three leaders below, except where an
amendment is agreed upon by the three leaders below. The finalized bills will be
conveyed to the House and Senate on Friday, May 24, 2019 and must be voted
upon or passed by both bodies before 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 25, 2019.
b. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives must declare an urgency under
Article IV, Section 19 of the Minnesota Constitution. Senate Rule 2 and House
Rule 1.04, requiring that a bill be given three readings on three separate days, and
any other rules that would prevent passage of the above bills before 7:00 a.m. on
Saturday, May 25, 2019, must be suspended.
c. No other votes may be permitted and no other bills other than those listed above
may be passed.

4. The First Special Session must conclude within one legislative day. Both the House and
the Senate must adjourn the First Special Session sine die before 7:00 a.m. on Saturday,
May 25, 2019.

Signed on May 23, 2019.

Tim Walz
Governor

Representative Melissa Hortman
Speaker of the House

Senator Paul Gazelka
Senate Majority Leader