1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to legislative organization; requiring all conference committee provisions 
1.3 	to have been passed by one or the other body;proposing coding for new law in 
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes, chapter 3.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. [3.051] RULES OF PROCEEDINGS.
1.7 		Subdivision 1.Applicability. The rules of each house and the joint rules of the 
1.8 	legislature must conform to this section.
1.9 		Subd. 2.Conference committees; content. A conference committee report must 
1.10 	not contain significant changes to current policies or statutes if those changes have not 
1.11 	been contained substantially in a bill or resolution that has been passed by one of the two 
1.12 	bodies. Any member may object to a conference committee report on these grounds, and if 
1.13 	such an objection is received and sustained by a majority of the members of one house, the 
1.14 	conference committee report must be referred to a joint meeting of the Rules Committees 
1.15 	of both houses for review. This joint committee must meet within three calendar days of 
1.16 	receiving such a referral, and shall either:
1.17 	(1) determine that one body has passed a substantially similar policy in bill or 
1.18 	resolution form, and therefore refer the conference report back to the floor of both bodies 
1.19 	with a statement to that effect, including in the statement the time, date, and details 
1.20 	of the passage; or 
1.21 	(2) report the conference committee report back to the floors with a notation that the 
1.22 	policy in question has not been passed in a substantially similar form by either body, and 
1.23 	therefore make a recommendation that the report be rejected.