The conference committee membership has been selected by the Minnesota House and Senate to hear HF 844, an education omnibus bill that House Republicans amended last week with language that bars schools from providing gender inclusion in facilities.

The conference committee will meet on Tuesday afternoon as early as 3:30pm in room 112 at the Capitol.

The committee will be reviewing the two different bills passed by the Minnesota House and Senate. In the House, Republicans added anti-transgender language to its version. In the Senate, lawmakers rejected similar language. The committee will have to decide whether to keep the language in or remove it before sending it back to both chambers.

Committee membership from the House includes Republican Reps. Jennifer Loon of Edina, Ron Kresha of Little Falls, Roz Peterson of Lakeville, Sondra Erickson of Princeton, and Bob Dettmer of Forest Lake.

Committee membership from the Senate includes DFL Sens. Chuck Wiger of Maplewood, Kevin Dahle of Northfield, Alice Johnson of Blaine, Leroy Stumpf of Plummer, and Republican Sen. Eric Pratt of Prior Lake.

It is unknown what the positions of House Republican members of the committee on the anti-transgender language. A recent vote in the Minnesota House was a voice vote with no role call, and none of the members have made their positions known publicly. In the Senate, all DFL Senators voted against the language with Wiger and Johnson speaking out against it on the Senate floor. Sen. Pratt, the lone Republican Senator on the committee, voted for the language.