Labor
2025-2026 Regular Session
Report Date: March 19, 2026 7:05:46 PM
| Bill # | Senate Author | Description | Date Received | Hearing Date | Action Taken | Senate Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF310 | Dornink | Employee definition modified for the purposes of earned sick and safe time | 01/21/2025 | 01/23/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development | |
| SF467 | Mathews | Local ban prohibition on new natural gas hookups in residential construction | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF475 | Mathews | Whistleblower protections for public employees modifications | 01/21/2025 | 01/23/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on State and Local Government | |
| SF494 | Rasmusson | Employee definition modification for earned sick and safe time | 01/23/2025 | |||
| SF537 | Wesenberg | Notification to student employees regarding membership in a collective bargaining unit requirement | 01/23/2025 | |||
| SF560 | Lucero | Building permit fees cost-per-square-foot valuation of residential buildings requirement by the Commissioner of Labor and Industry establishment | 01/23/2025 | 01/30/2025 | Referred to the Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention without recommendation | |
| SF602 | Rasmusson | Minnesota Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board expedited rulemaking authority removal provision | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF671 | Mohamed | Minimum wage increase provision | 01/27/2025 | 03/25/2025 | ||
| SF691 | Rasmusson | Employment of unauthorized individuals prohibition provision | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF709 | Lucero | Employers requiring or incentivizing public display of medical information prohibition | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF740 | Westrom | Grant award requirements modification for the border-to-border broadband development grant program | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF908 | Kupec | Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modification | 02/03/2025 | 03/27/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development | |
| SF947 | Pratt | Employee definition modification for the purposes of safe and sick time provision | 02/03/2025 | |||
| SF987 | Hoffman | Adoption of rules authorization to increase accessibility for examination rooms | 02/06/2025 | 02/25/2025 | ||
| SF1229 | Draheim | Paid Youth Trades Employment Opportunity Act | 02/10/2025 | |||
| SF1506 | Nelson | Career pathways program in emergency medicine appropriation | 02/17/2025 | 03/04/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Jobs and Economic Development | |
| SF1508 | McEwen | Apprenticeship readiness programming appropriation | 02/17/2025 | 03/04/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | See First Special Session, SF17 |
| SF1518 | Pappas | Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board appropriation for certified worker organization grants | 02/17/2025 | 03/20/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1523 | Hauschild | Loggers safety grant program appropriation | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1531 | Housley | Nursing Home Workforce Standards Boards repealer | 02/17/2025 | See First Special Session, HF3 | ||
| SF1543 | Putnam | Career Pathways Program appropriation | 02/17/2025 | 03/04/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | See First Special Session, SF17 |
| SF1566 | Pappas | Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board modification | 02/17/2025 | 03/20/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | See First Special Session, SF17 |
| SF1601 | Coleman | Steam boilers rules adoption by the commissioner directing provision | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF1714 | Johnson Stewart | Public contracts payment transparency requirement provision | 03/09/2026 | |||
| SF1756 | Kupec | Minnesota Helmets to Hardhats program appropriation | 02/24/2025 | 03/04/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | See First Special Session, SF17 |
| SF1993 | Draheim | Threshold for municipal reporting of construction-related and development-related fee collections; commissioner of labor and industry establishment of a cost per square foot valuation of certain properties for the purpose of setting municipal building permit fees requirement | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF2149 | McEwen | Labor and industry technical provisions modifications; earned sick and safe time provisions modifications | 03/03/2025 | 04/10/2025 | Amended and recommended to pass | See First Special Session, SF17 |
| SF2149 | McEwen | Labor and industry technical provisions modifications; earned sick and safe time provisions modifications | 03/20/2025 | 04/10/2025 | Amended and recommended to pass | See First Special Session, SF17 |
| SF2149 | McEwen | Labor and industry technical provisions modifications; earned sick and safe time provisions modifications | 04/10/2025 | Amended and recommended to pass | See First Special Session, SF17 | |
| SF2153 | Pappas | Job misclassification prohibition provision | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2235 | Mann | Employee health plan options compliance with cost-sharing limits disclosure in job postings by employers requirement provision | 03/06/2025 | 03/20/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2256 | Oumou Verbeten | Workers' compensation fraud prevention certificates of insurance establishment | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2300 | Seeberger | Earned sick and safe time provisions modifications | 03/10/2025 | See First Special Session, SF17 | ||
| SF2360 | Oumou Verbeten | Biennial misclassification fraud impact report requirement and appropriation | 03/10/2025 | 03/27/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Taxes | See First Special Session, SF17 |
| SF2373 | McEwen | Omnibus Labor policy and appropriations | 03/10/2025 | 04/10/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Finance | |
| SF2373 | McEwen | Omnibus Labor policy and appropriations | 03/27/2025 | 04/10/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Finance | |
| SF2419 | Kreun | Certain information provided by businesses when determining worker classification requirement provision | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2532 | McEwen | Holiday overtime pay requirement provision | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2533 | Mann | Stay-or-pay provisions prohibition provision and that they are unenforceable, and against public policy | 03/13/2025 | 03/03/2026 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety | |
| SF2572 | Wesenberg | Making employer participation in earned sick and safe time benefits voluntary provision | 03/17/2025 | |||
| SF2586 | Nelson | Definition of employee modification for purposes of earned sick and safe time to exclude townships authorization | 03/17/2025 | |||
| SF2605 | Gruenhagen | Earned sick and safe time modification | 03/17/2025 | |||
| SF2717 | Gustafson | Fire life safety damper testing establishment provision | 03/20/2025 | |||
| SF2744 | Seeberger | Construction industry mental health initiatives appropriation | 03/20/2025 | 04/08/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | See First Special Session, SF17 |
| SF2775 | Port | Hospitals providing registered nurse staffing at levels consistent with nationally accepted standards requirement provision, staffing levels report requirement, retaliation prohibition provision, and appropriation | 03/20/2025 | 03/27/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Human Services | |
| SF2804 | Mohamed | Worker safety requirement to provide access to automatic defibrillators and trained operators establishment provision | 03/20/2025 | |||
| SF2919 | Dornink | Earned sick and safe time benefits cost inclusion in the prevailing wage calculation under certain conditions authorization provision | 03/24/2025 | |||
| SF2923 | Johnson Stewart | Straw bale construction and hempcrete construction rulemaking requirement provision | 03/24/2025 | |||
| SF3050 | Pratt | Union members allocation of union dues to the local, state, or national organization of their choice authorization | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3086 | Draheim | Youth skills training program in the construction trades authorization | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3224 | Dornink | Certain individuals working in positions regulated by the United States Department of Transportation exempted from earned sick and safe time requirements provision | 04/02/2025 | |||
| SF3229 | Mohamed | Bargaining rights creation and regulation for transportation network company drivers | 04/02/2025 | 05/01/2025 | Discussion only | |
| SF3288 | Rasmusson | Additional circumstances provision under which a covenant not to compete is valid and enforceable | 04/03/2025 | |||
| SF3342 | Fateh | Staffing services for canceled assignments payment of wages for employees requirement provision | 04/09/2025 | |||
| SF3407 | McEwen | Workers' Compensation Advisory Council recommendations adoption | 04/22/2025 | 05/09/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Finance | |
| SF3574 | Gruenhagen | Local enforcement of licensed plumbers preemption | 02/17/2026 | |||
| SF3607 | Westlin | Notice requirements provision under the Human Rights Act | 03/04/2026 | 03/05/2026 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety | |
| SF3683 | Howe | New residential energy code adoption requirement repealer | 02/19/2026 | |||
| SF3719 | McEwen | Class A installer license from the electrical code elimination | 02/19/2026 | 02/24/2026 | Laid over | |
| SF3720 | McEwen | Building code administration modification | 02/19/2026 | 02/24/2026 | As amended, be laid over | |
| SF3730 | Hoffman | Commissioner of labor and industry requirement to adopt rules about unvented attics and enclosed rafter assemblies | 02/23/2026 | |||
| SF3750 | Kunesh | Require the commissioner of labor and industry to amend the rules related to school storm shelters | 02/23/2026 | 03/05/2026 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on State and Local Government | |
| SF4003 | Dibble | Suitable seating for employees provided by employers requirement provision | 03/02/2026 | 03/12/2026 | As amended, be laid over | |
| SF4060 | McEwen | Quality service wage requirement for covered airport or related location workers | 03/02/2026 | 03/12/2026 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on State and Local Government | |
| SF4129 | Pratt | Union members who are teachers permission to allocate union dues to the local, state, or national organization of their choice | 03/04/2026 | |||
| SF4212 | McEwen | State Energy Code compliance streamlining competitive grants appropriation | 03/09/2026 | |||
| SF4333 | Kupec | Rest break and meal break requirements under certain circumstances adjustment | 03/11/2026 | |||
| SF4376 | Dibble | Employers that offer employees a monetary parking benefit requirement to offer equivalent benefits for other modes of transit | 03/11/2026 | |||
| SF4488 | Rarick | Electrical work supervision modification | 03/17/2026 | |||
| SF4576 | Maye Quade | Employees displaced by artificial intelligence notice and transitional employment period requirement provision | 03/18/2026 | |||
| SF4594 | Seeberger | Employee's ability to waive a meal break clarification | 03/18/2026 | |||
| SF4629 | Hemmingsen-Jaeger | Paid blood donation leave eligibility expansion to include employees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities | 03/23/2026 | |||
| SF4686 | Maye Quade | Use of electronic monitoring tools regulation in employment setting | 03/23/2026 | |||
| SF4689 | Maye Quade | Use of automated decision systems in employment settings regulation | 03/23/2026 |