![Windows from the front of the Capitol have been removed and replaced with plywood. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Tuesday, December 2, 2014 With just over one month before the start of the 2015 legislative session, Legislators, protesters, lobbyists and school children will find a vastly different State Capitol with no access to the Rotunda and very limited access to the rest of the building.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/UFR5LGBBIUGJBAARIGUBF3FER4.jpg?&w=1080)
Capitol-watchers, set your calendars.
The Minnesota Senate has set its committee schedule for 2015.
The roster includes shorter hearings than the Senate had in 2013-2014 and fewer committees, a nod to the massive Capitol renovation that will substantially alter the space availability.
"The space available for Senate committees has been reduced to three hearing rooms, forcing a realignment of the committee schedule and structure," Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, said in a statement. "The 2015 Senate committee schedule creates the efficiencies necessary, given the space limitations due to renovation of the Capitol."
The new session will be filled with two-hour and 90-minute hearings. This year, the Senate had two-and-a-half hour hearings on the schedule.
Here are all the details of the Senate plan:
(Note: After this schedule was released, the location for the State Departments and Veterans Division was changed to room 112.)
