page_title: 91st Minnesota Legislature
section_title: House of Representatives
hierarchical_section_title: 91st Minnesota Legislature / Leadership / House of Representatives
caption_attribution_description: English: Melissa Hortman Swearing-in 2019
context_page_description: The Ninety-first Minnesota Legislature is the legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota from January 8, 2019 to January 4, 2021. It is composed of the Senate and House of Representatives, based on the results of the 2016 Senate election and 2018 House election. It first convened and held its regular session in Saint Paul from January 8 to May 20, 2019, and from February 11 to May 18, 2020. A special session was held from May 24 to 25, 2019, to pass bills enacting the state budget following an agreement between the governor and legislative leaders during the final weekend of the regular session in 2019.
  Another special session was held from June 12 to 20, 2020, which was required by state law as Governor Tim Walz extended Minnesota's peacetime emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also the followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent protests. Walz and several legislators said they intended to use the special session to address concerns raised by Floyd's death related to racial inequities in policing, on which the House and Senate were unable to reach an agreement.
context_section_description: Speaker: Melissa Hortman (DFL)
  Speakers pro tempore:
  Gene Pelowski (DFL)
  Paul Marquart (DFL)
  Jeanne Poppe (DFL)
  Liz Olson (DFL)
  Laurie Halverson (DFL)
  Tony Albright (R)
caption: Melissa Hortman sworn in as the 61st speaker of the House by Justice Paul Thissen, January 8, 2019.
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