Minnesota Senate adopts committee reports, reassigns several bills to state and local government committee

On March 17, 2026, the Minnesota Senate moved through routine procedural business, adopting committee reports and approving a series of motions to withdraw bills from one committee and re-refer them to another.

Senator Murphy moved that the committee reports printed in the agenda be adopted; the motion prevailed. The presiding officer then called on individual senators to present motions. Senators moved and the body approved motions to withdraw and re-refer specific Senate files: Sen. Pa moved to withdraw SF 4075 from the Committee on Transportation and re-refer it to the Committee on State and Local Government; Sen. Hemmingson Jaeger moved to withdraw SF 4177 from the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection and re-refer it to the Committee on State and Local Government (she stated she is the bill's author); Sen. Putnam moved to withdraw SF 4262 from the Committee on Taxes and re-refer it to the Committee on State and Local Government; and Sen. Wiklendt moved to withdraw SF 4418 from the Committee on Health and Human Services and re-refer it to the Committee on Human Services. Each motion was announced as prevailing after the presiding officer asked for ayes and nays.

The session moved on to designated special orders after those motions. The floor record did not include recorded roll-call tallies for the individual referral motions; each motion was announced as having carried under standard voice vote procedure.