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Yes: 1,074 • No: 811
MinnesotaSF 447694th Legislature, 2025-2026SenateWALLET
Omnibus Human Services supplemental appropriations
Sponsored By: John A. Hoffman (Democratic)
Became Law
Human Services
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Assisted living rights with help-request limits
Assisted living facilities must give residents their bill of rights and plan care around each person's needs and choices. Care must follow nursing law, with registered nurses overseeing and evaluating health tasks assigned to unlicensed staff. Residents must have a way to request health or safety help 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Facilities can use effective technology or other approaches suited to the resident. The exception requires both moderate to severe cognitive impairment, including dementia, and a nursing assessment finding unreliable alert-device use. Facilities must still have awake staff physically present around the clock in the same building or connected campus. Those staff must respond within a reasonable time, communicate with residents, provide or call for help, and follow directions. Staff must have access to an on-call registered nurse around the clock. Staffing plans require twice-yearly reviews and enough staff for scheduled needs, foreseeable unscheduled needs, emergencies, and disasters. Residents can decorate within contract terms, get food anytime, choose visitors and visiting times, and choose roommates in shared units. Residents have a right to lockable doors; staff entry requires a legitimate need and advance notice when possible. Facilities cannot lock residents inside their units.
More businesses qualify for legal-cost eligibility
The law raises the business revenue ceiling for state proceeding fee-and-expense eligibility from $7 million to $13.5 million. Businesses must still have 500 or fewer employees, with both limits measured when the action or proceeding starts. They must be parties, or seek and be entitled to admission as parties; eligibility does not guarantee payment. Partners, officers, shareholders, members, and owners of qualifying entities can also qualify as parties under this rule. The provider exclusion now covers only Department of Human Services and Direct Care and Treatment licensing or reimbursement-method disputes. It covers providers serving those agencies under a license or cost-reimbursement arrangement; the Department of Health reference is removed.
Assisted living leaves provider-tax category
Assisted living facilities licensed under Minnesota's chapter 144G no longer count as health care providers for MinnesotaCare provider-tax purposes. Services provided to these facilities are also excluded from the related definition of patient services. These changes affect tax treatment tied to those definitions. No dollar savings amount is specified, and the law does not guarantee lower resident fees.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
John A. Hoffman
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Noor
Affiliation unavailable
Schomacker
Affiliation unavailable
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/17/2026
Third Reading
Yes: 35 • No: 31
House vote • 5/17/2026
Repassage, as amended by Conference
Yes: 108 • No: 26
Senate vote • 5/17/2026
Conference Committee Report on S.F. No. 4476
Yes: 36 • No: 29
House vote • 5/11/2026
Amendment
Yes: 53 • No: 70
House vote • 5/11/2026
Amendment
Yes: 127 • No: 0
House vote • 5/11/2026
Amendment
Yes: 62 • No: 67
House vote • 5/11/2026
Amendment
Yes: 63 • No: 67
House vote • 5/11/2026
Amendment
Yes: 61 • No: 68
House vote • 5/11/2026
Amendment
Yes: 62 • No: 67
House vote • 5/11/2026
Amendment
Yes: 61 • No: 67
House vote • 5/11/2026
Amendment
Yes: 60 • No: 68
House vote • 5/11/2026
Passage, as amended
Yes: 107 • No: 21
Senate vote • 5/6/2026
Appeal of the President's ruling on the Rasmusson (A47) amendment: Shall the decision of the President be the judgment of the Senate?
Yes: 34 • No: 33
Senate vote • 5/6/2026
Amendment: Gruenhagen (A49) amendment
Yes: 33 • No: 34
Senate vote • 5/6/2026
Amendment: Rasmusson (A43) amendment
Yes: 33 • No: 34
Senate vote • 5/6/2026
Third Reading
Yes: 35 • No: 32
Senate vote • 5/6/2026
Amendment: Rasmusson (A75) amendment to the Frentz (A50) amendment
Yes: 33 • No: 34
Senate vote • 5/6/2026
Amendment: Pratt (A45) amendment
Yes: 33 • No: 34
Senate vote • 5/6/2026
Amendment: Frentz (A50) amendment
Yes: 38 • No: 29
Actions Timeline
Secretary of State Chapter 121
5/27/2026SenateGovernor's action Approval
5/27/2026SenatePresentment date
5/20/2026SenateBill was repassed as amended by Conference vote: 108-26
5/17/2026HouseThird reading as amended by Conference
5/17/2026HouseHouse adopted conference committee report
5/17/2026HouseConference committee report, delete everythingc
5/17/2026HouseSenate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed vote: 35-31
5/17/2026HouseThird Reading Repassed vote: 35-31
5/17/2026SenateSenate adopted CC report and repassed bill vote: 36-29
5/17/2026SenateConference committee report, delete everythingc 4
5/17/2026SenateHouse conferees Schomaker; Gillman; Noor; Keeler
5/13/2026SenateHouse conferees Schomacker, Gillman, Noor, and Keeler
5/12/2026HouseHouse accedes, conference committee of 4 to be appointed
5/12/2026HouseSenate conferees Hoffman, Fateh, Wiklund, and Abeler
5/12/2026HouseSenate refuses to concur, conference committee of 4 requested
5/12/2026HouseSenate conferees Hoffman; Fateh; Wiklund; Abeler
5/12/2026SenateSenate not concur, conference committee requested
5/12/2026SenateReturned from House with amendment vote: 10414
5/12/2026SenateBill was passed as amended vote: 107-21
5/11/2026HouseThird reading as amended
5/11/2026HousePoint of order raised, ruled well taken
5/11/2026HouseAmendeda
5/11/2026HouseMotion prevailed
5/11/2026HouseMotion to suspend rules
5/11/2026House
Bill Text
1st Engrossment
2nd Engrossment
3rd Engrossment
4th Engrossment
Introduction
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