Bill Text: MN SC1 | 2020 | 91st Legislature 4th Special Session | Draft


Bill Title: A Senate concurrent resolution relating to Minnesota's peacetime emergency; terminating the peacetime emergency pursuant to the authority granted under Minnesota Statues, section 12.31, subdivision2, paragraph (b)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-11 - Adopted [SC1 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2020-SC1-Draft.html

1.1A Senate concurrent resolution
1.2relating to Minnesota's peacetime emergency; terminating the peacetime emergency
1.3pursuant to the authority granted under Minnesota Statutes, section 12.31, subdivision
1.42, paragraph (b).
1.5WHEREAS, Governor Walz signed Executive Order 20-01, a declaration of a peacetime
1.6emergency on March 13, 2020; and
1.7WHEREAS, the Executive Council of the State extended that peacetime emergency for up
1.8to 30 days, on March 16, 2020; and
1.9WHEREAS, on May 13, 2020, by Executive Order 20-55, Governor Walz extended the
1.10peacetime public emergency declared under Executive Order 20-01 and extended in Executive
1.11Order 20-35, until June 12, 2020; and
1.12WHEREAS, on June 12, 2020, by Executive Order 20-75, Governor Walz extended the
1.13peacetime public emergency declared under Executive Order 20-01 and extended in Executive
1.14Orders 20-35 and 20-55 until July 13, 2020; and
1.15WHEREAS, on July 13, 2020, by Executive Order 20-78, Governor Walz extended the
1.16peacetime public emergency declared under Executive Order 20-01 and extended in Executive
1.17Orders 20-35, 20-55, and 20-75 until August 12, 2020; and
1.18WHEREAS, on August 12, 2020, by Executive Order 20-83, Governor Walz extended the
1.19peacetime public emergency declared under Executive Order 20-01 and extended in Executive
1.20Orders 20-35, 20-55, 20-75, and 20-78 until September 11, 2020; NOW, THEREFORE,
1.21BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Minnesota, the House of Representatives
1.22concurring: that the legislature exercises its authority under Minnesota Statutes, section 12.31,
1.23subdivision 2, paragraph (b), terminating the peacetime emergency declared under Executive Order
1.2420-01, and extended under subsequent executive orders, on the day following the adoption of this
1.25resolution by the House of Representatives of the State of Minnesota.
2.1BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is directed to prepare an
2.2enrolled copy of this resolution, to be authenticated by his signature and those of the Speaker of
2.3the House of Representatives, the Chair of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, and
2.4the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, and transmit it to the Governor of the State of
2.5Minnesota.
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