Minnesota House recesses to the call of the speaker after rules committee business
May 11, 2026 | 2026 Legislature MN, Minnesota
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The Minnesota House of Representatives convened in Saint Paul on May 7, 2026, opened with an invocation and moved quickly through routine business before approving a motion to recess to the call of the speaker.
Reverend Jeff Ozan of Faith United Methodist Church in Saint Anthony delivered the opening prayer, after which the presiding officer led the pledge of allegiance. The clerk took the roll of members voting remotely and announced a quorum was present. With no objection, the journal of the preceding day was approved as corrected by the chief clerk.
The clerk called second readings for multiple house and senate files and reported a list of house files offered for first reading. The Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration was read onto the record; the report designated bills to be placed on the calendar for Tuesday, May 12, 2026, and established a prefiling requirement for amendments to several house files announced by the clerk.
A motion "that the rules of the house be so far suspended so that house file number 4987 be recalled from the committee on transportation finance and policy and be given its second and third readings, and be placed upon its final passage" was read onto the floor; the transcript does not record a subsequent vote on that motion.
Representative Olsen, recognized from Martin, said the family expected to arrive at noon and asked that the chamber recess to the call of the speaker: "They'll arrive at noon. So instead, can I move that the house go to recess to the call of the speaker?" Representative Niska (recognized from Anoka) then noted that the rules committee would convene after recess and that House Republicans would caucus following rules in their caucus room, and moved to recess to the call of the speaker. The presiding officer put the question, members were asked to respond vocally and the motion "prevails"; the House stood in recess.
No recorded roll-call vote or vote tally appears in the transcript for the recess motion. The rules committee and party caucus meetings were announced as the next procedural steps on the calendar.
Reverend Jeff Ozan of Faith United Methodist Church in Saint Anthony delivered the opening prayer, after which the presiding officer led the pledge of allegiance. The clerk took the roll of members voting remotely and announced a quorum was present. With no objection, the journal of the preceding day was approved as corrected by the chief clerk.
The clerk called second readings for multiple house and senate files and reported a list of house files offered for first reading. The Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration was read onto the record; the report designated bills to be placed on the calendar for Tuesday, May 12, 2026, and established a prefiling requirement for amendments to several house files announced by the clerk.
A motion "that the rules of the house be so far suspended so that house file number 4987 be recalled from the committee on transportation finance and policy and be given its second and third readings, and be placed upon its final passage" was read onto the floor; the transcript does not record a subsequent vote on that motion.
Representative Olsen, recognized from Martin, said the family expected to arrive at noon and asked that the chamber recess to the call of the speaker: "They'll arrive at noon. So instead, can I move that the house go to recess to the call of the speaker?" Representative Niska (recognized from Anoka) then noted that the rules committee would convene after recess and that House Republicans would caucus following rules in their caucus room, and moved to recess to the call of the speaker. The presiding officer put the question, members were asked to respond vocally and the motion "prevails"; the House stood in recess.
No recorded roll-call vote or vote tally appears in the transcript for the recess motion. The rules committee and party caucus meetings were announced as the next procedural steps on the calendar.
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