State of Minnesota
SENATE BILL INTRODUCTIONS
Thursday, March 26, 2026
11:00 A.M.
EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS
Introduction and First Reading of Senate Bills
The bills listed on today's introduction calendar are given their first reading and referred as indicated.
Senators Port and Fateh introduced--
S.F. No. 4867: A bill for an act relating to taxation; modifying the distribution of local affordable housing aid; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 297A.9925, subdivision 4; 477A.37, subdivision 3.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senators Seeberger and Housley introduced--
S.F. No. 4868: A bill for an act relating to consumer protection; regulating ticket resale disclosures and price; requiring reports; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 325F.676, subdivisions 1, 2, by adding subdivisions.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senator Carlson introduced--
S.F. No. 4869: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for replacement of park buildings and facilities in Dakota County regional parks; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senator Gustafson introduced--
S.F. No. 4870: A bill for an act relating to local government; authorizing the city of North Oaks to connect to the sanitary sewer system of the Metropolitan Council and be included within the Metropolitan Urban Service Area; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 473.
Referred to the Committee on State and Local Government.
Senator Pha introduced--
S.F. No. 4871: A bill for an act relating to cannabis; defining remediated cannabis product; requiring cannabis business to disclose information related to remediated cannabis products; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 342.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senators Champion and Dibble introduced--
S.F. No. 4872: A bill for an act relating to taxation; modifying local sales tax use of revenue in the city of Minneapolis; modifying Minneapolis downtown taxing area; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 297A.994, subdivision 4; Laws 1986, chapter 400, section 44, as amended.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senator Gustafson introduced--
S.F. No. 4873: A bill for an act relating to public safety; establishing a registry for repeat domestic violence offenders; requiring that certain information be published; assessing a fee; providing criminal penalties; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 299A.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
Senator Gustafson introduced--
S.F. No. 4874: A bill for an act relating to state government; precluding state contracts with person or business convicted of fraud; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 16C.
Referred to the Committee on State and Local Government.
Senator Port introduced--
S.F. No. 4875: A bill for an act relating to cannabis; modifying requirements for the medical cannabis endorsement; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 342.51, subdivisions 1, 3; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 342.51, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senator Port introduced--
S.F. No. 4876: A bill for an act relating to cannabis; increasing the cannabis microbusiness outdoor cultivation limit; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 342.28, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senator Port introduced--
S.F. No. 4877: A bill for an act relating to cannabis; modifying cannabis license application periods and issuance; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 342.14, subdivisions 1b, 2.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senators Holmstrom, Lieske, Wesenberg, and Lucero introduced--
S.F. No. 4878: A bill for an act relating to state government; repealing the designation of Cesar Chavez Day as a state observance; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 10.555.
Referred to the Committee on State and Local Government.
Senator Hoffman introduced--
S.F. No. 4879: A bill for an act relating to children, youth, and families; modifying enrollment and eligibility priority for children in foster care for community education programs, school readiness programs, early learning scholarships, and basic sliding fee child care assistance; modifying the Northstar foster care child care allowance; requiring licensing agencies to provide prospective child foster care license holders with information about child care costs and early childhood education programs; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 124D.19, subdivision 14, by adding a subdivision; 142A.607, subdivision 4; 142B.06, subdivision 5; 142B.40, subdivision 3; 142D.05, subdivision 8; 142D.25, subdivision 3; 142E.04, subdivision 4.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.
Senators Westrom, Holmstrom, and Pratt introduced--
S.F. No. 4880: A bill for an act relating to taxation; sales and use; providing a temporary sales tax holiday in July 2026.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senators Lucero, Fateh, Maye Quade, Holmstrom, and Wesenberg introduced--
S.F. No. 4881: A bill for an act relating to employment; prohibiting employers from requiring implantation of a microchip; creating a civil action; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 181.
Referred to the Committee on Labor.
Senator Westlin introduced--
S.F. No. 4882: A bill for an act relating to children, youth, and families; requiring responsible social services agencies to provide luggage for children in foster care; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 260C.212, by adding a subdivision.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.
Senators Maye Quade, Dibble, and Latz introduced--
S.F. No. 4883: A bill for an act relating to liquor; allowing nursing homes and assisted living facilities to allow consumption and display of alcoholic beverages; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 340A.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senator Draheim introduced--
S.F. No. 4884: A bill for an act relating to local government; requiring certain cities to modernize certain building project documentation procedures; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 326B.121, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on State and Local Government.
Senator Seeberger introduced--
S.F. No. 4885: A bill for an act relating to labor; modifying the roster of arbitrators for peace officer grievances; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 626.892, subdivision 4.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
Senators Marty and McEwen introduced--
S.F. No. 4886: A bill for an act relating to environment; creating greenhouse gas pollution cost-recovery program; establishing account; requiring reports; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 116.
Referred to the Committee on Environment, Climate, and Legacy.
Senator Johnson Stewart introduced--
S.F. No. 4887: A bill for an act relating to transportation; establishing certain requirements related to motor vehicle impacts, including imposing a motor vehicle weight surcharge and requiring certain weight disclosures; requiring a report; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 168.013, by adding a subdivision; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 168.013, subdivision 1a; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 325F.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Senator Dibble introduced--
S.F. No. 4888: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; authorizing the issuance of emergency shelter facility appropriation bonds; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 16A.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senator Gustafson introduced--
S.F. No. 4889: A bill for an act relating to state government; modifying eligibility for noncommercial radio station grants; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 129D.14, subdivision 3.
Referred to the Committee on State and Local Government.
Senator Fateh introduced--
S.F. No. 4890: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; modifying a prior appropriation for a capital project grant to CornerHouse; amending Laws 2023, chapter 71, article 1, section 14, subdivision 54.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senators Mathews and Howe introduced--
S.F. No. 4891: A bill for an act relating to the State Fire Code; requiring rulemaking to require school security systems as part of the State Fire Code; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 299F.011, by adding a subdivision.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
Senator Rarick introduced--
S.F. No. 4892: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for rehabilitation of the Willard Munger state trail; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senator Carlson introduced--
S.F. No. 4893: A bill for an act relating to transportation; modifying accessible parking enforcement standards; requiring statewide citizen disability parking enforcement program; authorizing certain postpartum people to use accessible parking spaces; establishing penalties; requiring rulemaking; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 169.345, subdivision 2; 169.346, subdivisions 2, 2a, 4.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Senator Carlson introduced--
S.F. No. 4894: A bill for an act relating to veterans; appropriating money for a woman veterans memorial in the city of Eagan.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development.
Senator Westlin introduced--
S.F. No. 4895: A bill for an act relating to civil law; clarifying volunteer participation in guardian ad litem program; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 480.35, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
Senator Seeberger introduced--
S.F. No. 4896: A bill for an act relating to public safety; increasing the penalty for transferring a firearm to an unauthorized person; establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for certain transfers of a firearm to an ineligible person; removing an affirmative defense; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 624.7141, subdivisions 1, 2; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 624.7141, subdivision 4.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
Senator Frentz introduced--
S.F. No. 4897: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for classroom and lab space improvements and boiler replacement at South Central College; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senator Westlin introduced--
S.F. No. 4898: A bill for an act relating to legislature; restricting use of legislative email, telephone numbers, and office space; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 3.
Referred to the Committee on State and Local Government.
Senator Seeberger introduced--
S.F. No. 4899: A bill for an act relating to public safety; increasing funding for peace officer training reimbursement; amending Laws 2025, chapter 35, article 2, section 4.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
Senator Mathews introduced--
S.F. No. 4900: A bill for an act relating to energy; appropriating money for a study evaluating the potential to construct nuclear-powered electric generating facilities in Minnesota.
Referred to the Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate.
Senator Mathews introduced--
S.F. No. 4901: A bill for an act relating to energy; requiring the inclusion of nuclear power as an optional resource in a utility's integrated resource plan; requiring the state to apply for federal funding related to nuclear-powered electric generating plants; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 216B.2422, subdivision 2; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 216C.
Referred to the Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate.
Senator Mathews introduced--
S.F. No. 4902: A bill for an act relating to taxation; individual income; establishing a subtraction for firefighter pension income; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 290.0132, by adding a subdivision.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senator Mathews introduced--
S.F. No. 4903: A bill for an act relating to taxation; individual income; establishing a subtraction for volunteer firefighter pension income; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 290.0132, by adding a subdivision.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senator Howe introduced--
S.F. No. 4904: A bill for an act relating to retirement; requiring the commissioner of management and budget to establish a program allowing state employees to contribute to a Launch Account and have employer matching contributions to the Minnesota deferred compensation plan be redirected for deposit in a Launch Account; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 43A.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development.
Senator Howe introduced--
S.F. No. 4905: A bill for an act relating to agriculture; modifying fencing requirements for farmed Cervidae; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 35.155, subdivision 4.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development.
Senator Coleman introduced--
S.F. No. 4906: A bill for an act relating to education; establishing a school safety video analytics grant program; requiring a report; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 123B.
Referred to the Committee on Education Finance.
Senator Howe introduced--
S.F. No. 4907: A bill for an act relating to higher education; imposing an in-state residency and work requirement for recipients of North Star Promise scholarships; limiting North Star Promise scholarships to students enrolled in programs of study that lead to employment in high-demand industries and occupations; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 136A.1465, subdivision 10, by adding subdivisions; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 136A.1465, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on Higher Education.
Senator Howe introduced--
S.F. No. 4908: A bill for an act relating to taxation; sales and use; providing an exemption for construction materials for certain projects financed through an act relating to capital investment.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senators Abeler, Port, Kupec, Clark, and Pha introduced--
S.F. No. 4909: A bill for an act relating to manufactured housing; modifying eviction proceedings for manufactured home park residents; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 327C.11, subdivision 3, by adding subdivisions; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 327C.11, subdivision 4.
Referred to the Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention.
Senators Howe and Hoffman introduced--
S.F. No. 4910: A bill for an act relating to public safety; increasing penalties for unlawful possession of firearms; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 609.165, subdivision 1b; 624.713, subdivision 2; 624.7141, subdivisions 1, 2.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
Senators Hoffman, Wesenberg, and Farnsworth introduced--
S.F. No. 4911: A bill for an act relating to natural resources; modifying wetland replacement requirements; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 103G.222, subdivision 3.
Referred to the Committee on Environment, Climate, and Legacy.
Senators Gruenhagen, Lucero, and Green introduced--
S.F. No. 4912: A bill for an act relating to health; prohibiting gender-affirming medical care and certain counseling for minors in the state of Minnesota; establishing penalties for violations; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.
Senators Gruenhagen, Green, and Mathews introduced--
S.F. No. 4913: A bill for an act relating to energy; eliminating the Minnesota Climate Innovation Finance Authority; transferring certain debt obligations; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 216C.441.
Referred to the Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate.
Senator Pappas introduced--
S.F. No. 4914: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for community tree-planting grants; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senators Pha, Xiong, Pappas, and Marty introduced--
S.F. No. 4915: A bill for an act relating to local government; restricting local government regulations of certain residential developments by religious organizations; providing civil remedies; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 462.
Referred to the Committee on State and Local Government.
Senator Pappas introduced--
S.F. No. 4916: A bill for an act relating to capital investment; appropriating money for an indoor recreational dome facility in the city of St. Paul; authorizing the sale and issuance of state bonds.
Referred to the Committee on Capital Investment.
Senator Pappas introduced--
S.F. No. 4917: A bill for an act relating to higher education; modifying appropriations for the state grant program; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 136A.121, subdivision 3, by adding a subdivision; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 136A.121, subdivisions 7, 7a.
Referred to the Committee on Higher Education.
Senators Housley, Mathews, and Heintzeman introduced--
S.F. No. 4918: A bill for an act relating to taxation; electric generation transition aid; modifying the criteria for an eligible taxing jurisdiction to qualify for aid; modifying the calculation of aid; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 477A.24, subdivisions 1, 3, 5; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 477A.24, subdivision 2.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senators Housley and Lang introduced--
S.F. No. 4919: A bill for an act relating to veterans; waiving parking fees at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for a veteran with a total service-connected disability; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 473.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development.
Senator Mathews introduced--
S.F. No. 4920: A bill for an act relating to energy; appropriating money to plan and construct an anaerobic digester or biomass thermal generation facility.
Referred to the Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate.
Senator Holmstrom introduced--
S.F. No. 4921: A bill for an act relating to trade regulations; modifying fees charged by the commissioner of commerce for license applications and renewals; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 325E.21, subdivision 2c.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senators Gruenhagen and Holmstrom introduced--
S.F. No. 4922: A bill for an act relating to family law; modifying requirements for a temporary order in a family law case; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 518.131, subdivision 11.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
Senators Holmstrom, Koran, Lieske, and Gruenhagen introduced--
S.F. No. 4923: A bill for an act relating to family law; amending provisions related to parenting time determinations; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 518.17, subdivision 1.
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
Senators Holmstrom, Gruenhagen, and Lucero introduced--
S.F. No. 4924: A bill for an act relating to education; renaming Perpich Center for Arts Education; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 129C.10, subdivision 1.
Referred to the Committee on Education Policy.
Senators Dornink, Westrom, Dahms, Kupec, and Seeberger introduced--
S.F. No. 4925: A bill for an act relating to agriculture; clarifying plant and soil amendment labeling requirements; modifying the guaranteed analysis of soil and plant amendments; requiring applicants submitting plant and soil amendment registration to submit a certificate of composition; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 18C.005, by adding subdivisions; 18C.211, subdivision 4; 18C.411, subdivision 2; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 18C.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development.
Senator Gruenhagen introduced--
S.F. No. 4926: A bill for an act relating to taxation; local sales and use; authorizing the city of Glencoe to impose a local sales tax.
Referred to the Committee on Taxes.
Senator Maye Quade introduced--
S.F. No. 4927: A bill for an act relating to commerce; precluding delivery of professional services through artificial intelligence directly to consumers; providing for enforcement and penalties; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 325F.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senator Housley introduced--
S.F. No. 4928: A bill for an act relating to commerce; requiring a person who sells emotional support dogs to provide notice that the dog is not a service dog; increasing criminal penalties for misrepresenting service animals; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 609.833, subdivision 3; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 325F.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Senators Boldon, Mann, Klein, and Wiklund introduced--
S.F. No. 4929: A bill for an act relating to health; direction to commissioner of health to join World Health Organization Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.
Senators Boldon, Cwodzinski, and Hemmingsen-Jaeger introduced--
S.F. No. 4930: A bill for an act relating to education; requiring a school board to include student representation; amending Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 123B.09, subdivision 1b.
Referred to the Committee on Education Policy.
Senator Boldon introduced--
S.F. No. 4931: A bill for an act relating to health; modifying services that may be provided by school-based health centers; requiring the commissioner of health to distribute stabilization grants to school-based health centers; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 145.903, subdivision 3.
Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.
Senator Xiong introduced--
S.F. No. 4932: A bill for an act relating to state government; authorizing the rounding of a payment or transfer of cash; changing a provision in health insurance benefit plans offered in the nonrepresented employees compensation plan and the managerial plan in chapter 43A; amending Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 43A.23, subdivision 1; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 16A.
Referred to the Committee on State and Local Government.