What should change at the Minnesota State Capitol to increase security? Lawmakers on a panel tasked with recommendations are weighing several options, but remain at odds over what to do.

The Advisory Committee on Capitol Area Security — a bipartisan panel that also includes other state officials as advisors — has had four meetings in as many months following the lawmaker shooting attacks in June that killed former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and injured Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.

Just a month later, a naked man broke into the Senate chamber after hours, putting a sharper focus on security in the building.

On Friday at its latest meeting, the panel considered joint House and Senate rules for behavior of the public and members during com

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