The Minnesota Legislature intends to hold a one-day special session that will convene Monday, Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders announced in a joint statement Friday.
Walz will call for the session to begin at 10 a.m. It includes 14 bills.
It’s been nearly three weeks since the regular session ended with less than 10 percent of the state budget approved.
Since then, legislators have been slogging through negotiations on bills, blasting past deadlines put out by leaders, and arguing over aspects of legislation mostly behind closed doors.
Negotiations on the last key budget bills — human services, transportation, health, education and taxes — have all been closing in on agreements this week.
The final budget will likely add up to more than $66 billion for two years, which is smaller than the budget currently in place.
Lawmakers must pass a budget by the end of June to avoid a partial government shutdown.
In anticipation of that, the state had already sent out layoff notices to state nurses. On Monday, the state is set to begin sending out layoff notices to all state workers in agencies without an enacted budget.
The call for the special session was signed by Walz, as well as both GOP and DFL leaders in the House and Senate.
The agreement says that legislative leaders will not support amendments to bills, and that the bills must be passed by both bodies before 7 a.m. on Tuesday.
