Lisa Demuth

Publicly opposed House File 7, the requirement for Minnesota utilities to reach 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2040, and supported unsuccessful amendments allowing more market flexibility.

January 26, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Joined more than a dozen House Republican votes to end Minnesota's COVID-19 peacetime emergency and publicly called for a transparent, dated process to end the emergency powers.

May 4, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Voted for a resolution ending the governor's COVID-19 peacetime emergency while preserving specified protective orders; the resolution failed on a party-line vote.

April 16, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Supported unanimously approved emergency funding for the Minnesota Department of Health's initial COVID-19 response, including repayment safeguards for unused money.

March 12, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Led House passage of a 2026 package that included property-tax and vehicle-tab reductions, business tax conformity, anti-fraud measures, school-safety funding, and rural-hospital support.

May 17, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Led House passage of Senate File 856 creating an independent Office of the Inspector General with enforcement authority and other anti-fraud provisions.

May 7, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Supported the House's 134-0 vote to end the Housing Stability Services program following findings of large-scale fraud and weak oversight.

March 19, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

As speaker, secured an organizational agreement creating an empowered Fraud and Agency Oversight Committee and establishing shared committee control in the tied House.

February 7, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Joined a House Republican letter requesting legislative hearings into the Feeding Our Future fraud and the Minnesota Department of Education's handling of payments.

September 27, 2022Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Led House passage of Senate File 856 creating an independent Office of the Inspector General with enforcement authority and other anti-fraud provisions.

May 7, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

As speaker, secured an organizational agreement creating an empowered Fraud and Agency Oversight Committee and establishing shared committee control in the tied House.

February 7, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Supported the House's 134-0 vote to end the Housing Stability Services program following findings of large-scale fraud and weak oversight.

March 19, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Led the tied House through enactment of a two-year state budget with $2 billion in cuts and roughly $5 billion less spending than the prior budget.

June 9, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Announced a bipartisan budget framework negotiated by House leaders that reduced the current budget by $4 billion and the 2026-2027 budget by another $1.2 billion.

April 2, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Voted for an audit of the Southwest Light Rail project and supported unsuccessful amendments to freeze project spending during the audit and terminate the project.

March 11, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Authored House File 3757 making specified swatting calls a felony; the House passed it 127-0, and its provisions later became law in the 2024 public-safety act.

May 2, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Supported House passage, 124-8, of legislation revising school-resource-officer force rules and requiring training and model policies.

March 7, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Voted for Minnesota's hands-free driving bill and for legislation protecting school employees and contractors from financial losses caused by severe-weather school closures.

March 22, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Authored House File 491 in 2019, proposing to make it a crime for a school employee, contractor, or other adult in a position of authority to have sex with a high school student under 21, raising the age of consent from 18 in those cases. A House public safety committee advanced the bill on a voice vote in January 2019, but it died later that session without becoming law.

January 30, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Supported a Republican paid-family-leave alternative based on voluntary employer participation, an insurance-backed plan, and a small-business tax credit; the amendment failed before the House passed the competing bill.

May 2, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Supported House passage, 124-8, of legislation revising school-resource-officer force rules and requiring training and model policies.

March 7, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Supported the House's 132-0 passage of a federal tax-conformity bill covering 46 federal provisions and more than $100 million in state tax reductions.

January 9, 2023Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board dismissed a complaint alleging excess personal contributions, contribution-limit violations, and a disclaimer violation involving her governor committee and Ryan Wilson.

May 11, 2026

Source: register.cfb.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Was elected speaker of the Minnesota House after the full chamber convened under a bipartisan power-sharing agreement.

February 6, 2025

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously rejected her position that 67 occupied seats constituted a House quorum and held that 68 members were required.

January 24, 2025

Source: sos.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Was selected by House Republicans as speaker-designate for the 2025-2026 legislative session.

November 8, 2024

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Was elected Minnesota House Republican minority leader by her caucus for the 2023-2024 biennium.

November 11, 2022

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Received the NFIB Minnesota Guardian of Small Business award after earning a 100 percent score on the organization's 2021-2022 legislative voting record.

July 21, 2022

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

Received the NFIB Minnesota Guardian of Small Business award based on her 2019-2020 votes, including opposition to a proposed gas-tax increase and paid-family-leave payroll tax.

October 26, 2020

Source: house.mn.gov · researched July 12, 2026

The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously rejected her position that 67 occupied seats constituted a House quorum and held that 68 members were required.

January 24, 2025

Source: validate.perfdrive.com · researched July 12, 2026