SF3727

Purpose

• Eliminate the automatic appointment confirmation process that occurs when the Legislature does not act on a confirmation.

What the bill does

• Repeals Minnesota Statutes 2024 section 15.066 subdivision 3.
• Removes the rule that a government appointment could be automatically confirmed if the Legislature does not take up the confirmation.

Significant changes to existing law

• The automatic confirmation pathway is removed. After this repeal, there is no provision in the statute granting automatic confirmation by default when the Legislature does not act; any confirmation would require a different, explicit process not provided by this bill.

What this means in practice

• Appointments will no longer be automatically confirmed by inaction. The confirmation decision would need to be addressed through other mechanisms or processes not specified by this repeal alone.

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Relevant Terms

• automatic appointment confirmation
• legislature does not take up confirmation
• repeal
• Minnesota Statutes 2024 section 15.066 subdivision 3
• state government
• appointment confirmation process