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Minnesota · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HF 1849: Term limits provided for governor and lieutenant governor, and constitutional amendment proposed.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HF 1849 is a bill introduced in the Minnesota House on March 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Term limits provided for governor and lieutenant governor, and constitutional amendment proposed. Primary sponsor: Jimmy Gordon (Republican). It lists 23 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (May 17, 2026): Motion did not prevail.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic-Farmer-Labor 1 · Republican 21

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jimmy GordonPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse28A
Keith AllenCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse19A
Paul AndersonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse12A
Jeff BackerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse9A
Scott Van BinsbergenCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse16A
Matt BlissCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse2B
John BurkelCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse1A
Ben DavisCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse6A
Tom DippelCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse41B
Elliott EngenCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse36A
Steve GanderCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse1B
Jim JoyCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse4B
Krista KnudsenCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse5A
MurphyCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Bjorn OlsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse22A
RarickCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Isaac SchultzCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse10B
Tom SextonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse19B
Paul TorkelsonCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse15B
Bianca VirnigCo-sponsorDemocratic-Farmer-LaborHouse52B
Cal WarwasCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse7B
Nolan WestCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse32A
Mike WienerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse5B
Jeff WitteCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse57B

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Motion did not prevail
  2. Motion to suspend rules
  3. Author added Engen
  4. Second reading
  5. Committee report, to adopt
  6. Author added Rarick
  7. Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Rules and Legislative Administration
  8. Author added Virnig
  9. Author stricken Virnig
  10. Motion to recall and re-refer, motion prevailed Elections Finance and Government Operations
  11. Introduction and first reading, referred to State Government Finance and Policy

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source