State and Local Government Committee, Minnesota State Senate (Decommissioned)

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The State and Local Government Committee was a standing committee of the Minnesota State Senate.

Function

The Senate jurisdiction website described the function of this committee as outlined below.

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The State and Local Government Committee has jurisdiction over all bills creating a new state agency, substantially changing the organization of a current state agency, or transferring duties from one state agency to another. The committee also has jurisdiction over bills relating to state administrative services, state administrative rulemaking procedures, state employee compensation, public employee labor relations, pensions and retirement, gambling, lotteries, pari-mutuel waging, the structure of the Legislature, veterans, and military affairs. The committee also has jurisdiction over all bills relating to the powers of local and metropolitan governmental units.

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Membership

2015 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session.

State and Local Government Members, 2015
Democratic members (8)	Republican members (5)
• Patricia Torres Ray, Chair	• Dan Hall, Ranking Minority Member
• Chris Eaton, Vice chair	• Bruce Anderson
• Kevin Dahle	• Karin Housley
• Jeff Hayden	• Branden Petersen
• Alice M. Johnson	• Dave Thompson
• Bev Scalze
• Sandra Pappas
• Melissa Halvorson Wiklund

2013-2014

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2013 legislative session.

State and Local Government Members, 2013
Democratic members (8)	Republican members (5)
• Sandra Pappas, Chair	• Dan Hall
• Chris Eaton, Vice chair	• Bruce Anderson
• Kevin Dahle	• Karin Housley
• Jeff Hayden	• Branden Petersen
• Alice M. Johnson	• Dave Thompson
• Bev Scalze
• Patricia Torres Ray
• Melissa Halvorson Wiklund

External links

• Minnesota State Senate