Scope: State (Minnesota)
Branch: Legislative
Severity: Amber
Date occurred: March 14, 2025
HF 26 would repeal the governor's authority to declare a peacetime emergency and to issue orders and expedited rules during an emergency, and would establish a legislative process for declaring and extending emergencies. The bill was recalled by the chair of the State Government Finance and Policy committee on March 14, 2025.
Constitutional basis: Proposed statutory transfer of emergency declaration authority from executive to legislature; significant inter-branch reallocation, still in committee with no enactment.