The Minnesota House of Representatives DFL and GOP announced a bipartisan power-sharing agreement on Wednesday. 

The agreement explains that the Republicans will govern as the majority until the House returns to a tie, which is expected to happen after the special election on March 11 in Roseville. If the outcome results in a tie, the DFL and Republicans will share power. 

In the agreement, Republicans will have a one-seat advantage in committee membership, but committees will have equal party representation when the House has equal party membership. 

The only exception to the agreement is that the House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy will have a 5-3 Republican advantage. 

Rep. Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring) will be the House speaker for the next two years, meaning Rep. Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park) is giving up her speakership. 

DFL House lawmakers were boycotting the start of the legislative session to keep Republicans from acting on their one-seat majority due to the vacant seat. With the temporary majority, Republicans could have given themselves favorable committee placements, which would give Republicans significant influence in the House for the next two years.

Republicans were given the brief one-seat majority in the House after the seat was vacated when DFL Rep.-elect Curtis Johnson was found ineligible for office because he did not live in the district.

Gov. Tim Walz initially scheduled the Roseville special House election for January, but Republicans successfully pushed the election back by petitioning the Minnesota Supreme Court and arguing that scheduling so close to the start of the session violated state law.