MinnesotaHF 302294th Legislature, 2025-2026HouseWALLET

Miscellaneous technical corrections made to laws and statutes; erroneous, obsolete, and omitted text and references corrected; redundant, conflicting, and superseded provisions removed; and style and form changes made.

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36 provisions identified: 18 benefits, 7 costs, 11 mixed.

School transfer protections for military families

Schools must ensure qualifying military-connected students transferring at the start of or during senior year receive a former-school diploma. Students must meet the former school's graduation rules and remain unable to graduate from the new school after all alternatives. Receiving states must provide reasonable disability accommodations based on an incoming military student's existing Section 504 or Title II plan. The receiving school can later evaluate the student's placement.

Graduation protections for transferring military students

Schools must waive a graduation course for similar completed coursework or give a reasonable explanation for denial. After denial, schools must offer timely coursework completion when the student qualifies to graduate from the sending school. Receiving states must accept sending-state exit or end-of-course exams, national achievement tests, or alternative testing instead of their graduation tests. For transfers at the start of or during senior year, the compact's diploma process applies when those alternatives cannot be accommodated.

School continuity for military families

A valid special power of attorney lets a military child's caregiver handle school enrollment and matters requiring parental consent. A transitioning military child placed with a noncustodial parent or acting caregiver in another jurisdiction can keep attending the original school. Local education agencies cannot charge local tuition during that qualifying placement.

Cooperative occupants can approve smaller shares

Occupant members can vote to let their cooperative set their collective minimum distribution share at 15% in its governing documents. Without that approval, the minimum remains 50% in each fiscal year. The change concerns the group's share, not a fixed payment to each member.

Tax debts can restrict assistant licenses

Physician assistant applicants and licensees face a licensing restriction when Revenue reports at least $500 in qualifying delinquent state taxes. Tax clearance requires no uncontested delinquent state taxes. A tax bill does not count as delinquent while contested, while an appeal period remains open, or during a current agreed payment plan.

New tax calculation for nonresident filers

The law changes income-tax calculations for people who were not Minnesota residents for the entire tax year. Two statutory subtraction amounts are no longer removed from either Minnesota-source income or federal adjusted gross income in the calculation. The provided text does not establish whether a particular filer pays more or less.

Small city landowners gain road review

County boards must consider and act on qualifying complaints about city roads made impassable by poor maintenance. The road must be outside an urban district in a statutory city with 5,000 people or fewer. At least five landowners must sign the written complaint.

Vehicle trip permits lose one requirement

The commissioner can issue occasional-use vehicle permits without the removed rule-compliance requirement. Permits last no more than 120 hours, with only one per vehicle during the 30 days starting on its effective date. The fee remains one-twelfth of the statutory amount, rounded to the nearest dollar. Applicable agreements and arrangements still govern issuance.

Privacy protections for long-term vehicle lessees

The commissioner generally cannot share individual lessee records for vehicle leases lasting 180 days or more. Disclosure remains allowed to recipients specifically authorized by law. The commissioner can also release records for recall notices at the commissioner's discretion. Summary data can be shared for statistical analysis and market research.

Advance renewal notices for license holders

For licenses and certificates expiring on or after August 1, 2024, the Board must send advance expiration notices. Notices must arrive by email at least 30 days before expiration and explain renewal steps and requirements. The Board must use standard mail when it has no email address on record.

Earlier preschool scholarship payments and transfers

Beginning January 1, 2026, the commissioner must pay eligible early learning programs before or when services begin, as funding allows. Payments are based on an approved scholarship recipient's enrollment. The commissioner must also create a process for recipients to transfer awards between programs. Transfers must be initiated by recipients; the law does not set a new scholarship amount.

School flexibility for military children

School officials may waive course or program entry requirements for military-connected students. Superintendents may grant extra excused absences to visit an active-duty parent or guardian before, during leave from, or immediately after deployment. The deployment must involve a combat zone or combat support posting. Education agencies must help transitioning military children join activities despite missed application deadlines, provided they otherwise qualify.

Cooperatives gain meeting and merger rules

Cooperative directors can meet electronically when everyone can hear one another, required notice is given, and a quorum participates. Qualifying electronic participation counts as being present in person. Merger or consolidation plans must explain proposed effects on members and occupant members of each domestic cooperative involved.

State can approve hillside grazing restrictions

The Board of Water and Soil Resources may approve acquiring hillside conservation easements that restrict livestock grazing or pasturing. The law adjusts the statutory exceptions governing that authority. Landowners are not required to enter an easement.

State seal copies must meet standards

State entities reproducing the Great Seal, its scene, impression, or likeness at state expense must follow state standards. A reproduction that fails those standards is not official.

Tribes receive prompt missing child notices

An agency or individual petitioner learning that an Indian child is missing must notify the child's Tribe or Tribes immediately. Notice must arrive within 24 hours at most, by phone and by email or fax. The duty falls on the agency or petitioner, not the child's household.

Health boards receive more oversight information

The Commerce Fraud Bureau may consult health licensing boards about suspected insurance fraud by covered licensees. After an insurance-related conviction, it must send the appropriate board public data it holds. Court administrators must notify the Medical Practice Board when a court appoints a guardian for a physician or commits one.

Charter managers must confirm board separation

Charter school management agreements must include a yearly assurance that management organization board members, employees, contractors, and agents serve on no charter school board. The assurance also covers people from affiliated organizations.

State prevents duplicate budget payments

When the same appropriation or transfer is enacted more than once in a legislative session, it takes effect only once. The rule prevents duplicate enactments from creating repeated funding or transfers.

Federal pricing rules satisfy fee disclosures

Meeting the Federal Communications Commission's pricing requirements in Order 24-29 counts as meeting Minnesota's mandatory-fee price disclosure rule. The state rule remains enforceable unless federal law overrides it. This gives businesses an accepted compliance standard for displaying prices.

Tighter treatment-plan rules for behavioral clinics

A qualifying integrated treatment plan from a certified community behavioral health clinic no longer automatically satisfies one separate treatment-plan requirement. The plan still satisfies the other requirements listed in the law. The removed equivalency affects plan compliance for intensive rehabilitative mental health services, not stated service eligibility.

Public employees must request retirement payouts

Minnesota public employee defined contribution plan participants must apply for distributions, direct rollovers, permitted transfers, or installment payments. This covers benefits following service termination, disability, or death, and benefits at age 65 or older while still publicly employed. The application rule does not apply to distributions required under section 356.635.

Some acupuncturists face stricter certification rules

Acupuncture applicants licensed under section 147B.02, subdivision 5, must show current NCCAOM certification. That group cannot use the professional-development renewal option available to licensees under subdivision 6.

Broader sales-tax collection on capital projects

Sales tax must be collected as though purchases were taxable for a broader set of qualifying capital-project purchases. The requirement covers materials, supplies, and equipment under both covered project categories, rather than the narrower prior list. The provided text states no tax rate or total cost.

Tighter funding limits for cooperative governments

Covered cooperative governments can levy property taxes or qualify for or receive state aid only with specific legal permission. The law keeps the exception in subdivision 2 but removes the exception in subdivision 3. It does not directly set household tax bills or benefit amounts.

Assistant oversight adds duties and protections

A licensed physician at the same workplace who knows the assistant's practice must review the practice agreement annually. Temporarily suspended physician assistants must get at least 20 days' hearing notice; hearings must start within 30 days of the order. With probable cause under the named disciplinary rule, the board can demand private records in writing from providers, insurers, and government agencies. Responders are protected from liability unless they supply false information they knew, or had reason to believe, was false.

Agriculture laws get wildlife reference correction

The law keeps the rule that agricultural sections 17.351 and 17.352 do not affect wild-animal laws. It removes section 17.353 from that cross-reference. The text does not identify a resulting household cost or benefit.

Flood districts gain farming with safeguards

Watershed districts may farm or lease flood-control land when it is not needed for flood protection. The land must remain available whenever flood control requires it. Revenue from state-bond-financed property must stay in a separate project account for flood-control operation, maintenance, and replacement. Excess revenue can support other flood projects only with adequate future reserves and commissioner approval.

Pipeline setback rules change local coverage

Pipeline setback ordinance requirements cover cities, towns, and counties with pipelines and zoning authority under the two retained statutory frameworks. The law removes a third framework from the coverage rule. This changes local government duties, not a direct household requirement.

Facilities face restored toxic reporting thresholds

Covered Minnesota facilities must use alternative toxic-release reporting thresholds from before the December 18, 2006 federal burden-reduction rule. This applies to facilities already required to report under the state law. The change affects reporting requirements, not a stated household payment.

States coordinate military education and payments

Compact member states must coordinate agencies, schools, and military installations through a council or existing board. Each state must name a military family education liaison and appoint a compact commissioner. The Interstate Commission can collect annual state payments for operating and staff costs. Its rule sets each state's share, and total payments must cover its approved annual budget.

Airport laws clarify local and tax coverage

The airport laws' definition of municipality includes every Minnesota county, city, town, and airport authority, including for section 360.042. The cited commercial-use permit provisions do not apply to aircraft registration or taxation under the separate aircraft statutes. This does not eliminate or reduce those registration or tax rules.

Policy rule starts one year later

The policy provision in Laws 2023, chapter 57, article 2, section 66, starts August 1, 2026, instead of August 1, 2025. It applies to policies offered, issued, or renewed on or after August 1, 2026. The supplied text does not identify the policy subject or its financial effects.

School grants gain goals and transfers

Education grant applicants must state program and funding goals, aligning them with state and federal accountability systems when practical. Two appropriations move from community-education transfer rules into the general education transfer system. Excess direct general-fund appropriations can cover shortfalls in eligible education aid or grants. If money remains short, eligible districts share available funds proportionally.

Grain defaults use separate receivership rules

Specified receiverships for defaulting grain buyers and public grain warehouses are excluded from the general receivership chapter. The change determines which legal rules apply when those businesses default. It does not state how any claimant's payment changes.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

Peggy Scott
Republican • House

Cosponsors

Tina Liebling
Democratic • House
Limmer
Affiliation unavailable

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 128 • No: 4

House vote • 4/25/2025

Passage