Minnesota Democrats on Tuesday released a plan for a special legislative session on gun control and school safety that calls for lawmakers to return to the state Capitol early next week.

The framework signed by Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic-Farmer-Labor legislative leaders includes a ban on so-called assault weapons, funding boosts for school security and mental health services, and increased criminal penalties for firearm offenses.

Walz would call lawmakers back to St. Paul on Oct. 6 to pass a mixture of proposals floated by both DFLers and Republicans in the wake of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis last month, which took the lives of two children and injured 21 others.

Republican leaders didn’t sign on to the framework and continue to resist DFL pressure to c

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