Minnesota Senate
The Senate of Minnesota (Minnesota State Senate ) is the upper house of the Minnesota State Legislature, the legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The meeting room of the Senate is located together with the House of Representatives in Minnesota State Capitol in the capital city of Saint Paul.
Tasks of the Senate
The Minnesota Senate fall As in upper houses of other states and territories, as well as in the U.S. Senate compared to the House of Representatives special tasks that go beyond the law. So it is up to the Senate, nominations of the governor in his cabinet to accept or reject other offices of the executive branch and commissions and authorities.
Structure of the chamber
The chamber of parliament is composed of 67 senators, which is half as much as in the other chamber, the House of Representatives from Minnesota. Each of the electoral districts in the Senate includes the deputies in districts A and B, for example, consists of the Senate District 32 of the MPs District 32A and 32B. The Constitution of Minnesota prohibits it to divide a deputy district in a senate district. Before the 1960s, the Senators were divided on the county, with the result of under-representation of this. In cities The senators are elected usually for four -year terms. However, there is an exception if the election districts are redistributed according to a census. Then they are elected for a two year term.
From admission of Minnesota into the Union by the year 1972, the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota was the president of the Senate. In that year, voters approved a constitutional amendment that would allow the Senate to elect a president from among themselves until January 1973.