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Speaker Kelliher Unveils Slimmer Committee Structure

By Eric L. Lipman

On Friday, Speaker of the House Margaret Anderson Kelliher unveiled a slimmer and more compressed committee structure for the Minnesota House of Representatives.

Among the features of the new committee structure is a retooling of the Biosciences and Emerging Technology and the Local Government and Metropolitan Affairs committees into divisions of other committees; a shuttering of many of the smaller policy subcommittees; and the splintering of civil justice and criminal justice policy jurisdictions between two separate policy committees.

As to this last innovation, Republican and Democratic majorities have drawn the committee jurisdictions both ways in recent years ? with civil and criminal justice issues at times being considered in the same committee, and in other years, split between two different panels.

A copy of the Speaker?s announcement of the new committees, and their respective Chairmen and Chairwomen, is accessible here.

Full post as published by Within the Scope on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).