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.
View the previously announced House hearing schedule and committee chairs here.
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.)
2015 Comm Chair and Grid by Rachel E. Stassen-Berger
Photo: The outside of the Capitol, under construction//Source: Glen Stubbe, Star Tribune
