HF 2464 Minnesota House · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health policy bill.

HF 2464 modifies accreditation rules for environmental laboratories in Minnesota that test water samples for compliance with state permits. It allows these labs to request exemption from certain national quality control and personnel requirements if they follow Minnesota's adopted water testing standards (Standard Methods for Water and Wastewater) and provide personnel details. The bill also establishes specific proficiency testing rules: labs must pass two annual testing studies, with consequences for failures including supplemental testing or potential accreditation revocation. These changes directly affect environmental labs seeking accreditation for water analysis under state permit programs. The policy update shifts oversight to Minnesota-specific standards while maintaining testing requirements for lab accreditation.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

House Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Mar 17, 2025 Last action May 17, 2025

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What changed between versions

1st Engrossment → 2nd Engrossment · 4 edits · May 16, 2025

MODERATE

This bill updates the Higher Education Facilities Authority to include health care facilities, renaming it the Minnesota Health and Education Facilities Authority. It expands the authority's ability to issue bonds for health care projects and refinance existing debt related to health facilities. Additionally, the bill grants optometrists new limited privileges to administer certain injections and anesthetics under strict conditions.

Scope change

The bill's scope broadened from exclusively higher education facilities to include both higher education and health care facilities, requiring the authority to be renamed.

SCOPE

The Higher Education Facilities Authority was renamed the Minnesota Health and Education Facilities Authority to reflect its new mandate over health care facilities in addition to educational ones.

ELIGIBILITY

The authority is now authorized to issue revenue bonds and make loans specifically for the acquisition, construction, or improvement of health care facilities, not just educational ones.

The rules for issuing revenue bonds were updated to explicitly allow refinancing debt for health care facilities alongside educational facilities.

REQUIREMENT

Optometrists are granted the ability to administer local anesthesia and Botulinum toxin injections for specific minor procedures, provided they have board-approved training and follow strict limitations on lesion size and location.

Introduction → 1st Engrossment · 6 edits · Apr 10, 2025

MODERATE

This bill significantly expands the Minnesota Health and Education Facilities Authority by renaming it to include 'Health,' increasing its total bonding capacity from $2 billion to $5 billion, and creating separate funding limits for education ($2.25 billion) and health care ($2.75 billion). It also adds new requirements for informed consent regarding sensitive medical examinations and updates the definition of 'optometry' to restrict certain drug administrations and procedures.

Scope change

The bill's scope changed from solely supporting higher education facilities to explicitly including health care organizations and facilities, thereby broadening the types of projects eligible for state financing and refinancing.

FISCAL

Increased the Authority's total bonding capacity from $2 billion to $5 billion, with specific caps of $2.25 billion for education facilities and $2.75 billion for health care facilities.

DEFINITION

Added new definitions for 'health care facility' and 'health care organization' to clarify which entities and structures are eligible for Authority funding.

REQUIREMENT

Established a new requirement that informed consent must be obtained before performing sensitive examinations (pelvic, breast, urogenital, or rectal) on anesthetized or unconscious patients, with specific exceptions for medical necessity and evidence collection.

Amended the definition of 'optometry' to prohibit the administration of legend drugs via intravenous, intramuscular, or injection methods (except for anaphylaxis or specific eye injections) and to limit the duration of steroid prescriptions.

Authorized the sharing of overdose incident data with the ODMAP program to help map and allocate resources for public health and safety responses.

ELIGIBILITY

Updated the Authority's mission and eligibility criteria to include health care organizations alongside institutions of higher education for the construction and financing of facilities.

Floor votes · House May 15, 2025

How they voted

133–0

Passed

Total votes 133

May 15, 2025

D Democratic66

66 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican67

67 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

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Key actions

Committee

Amendments

May 17, 2025

Introduced

Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF2990

upper

May 16, 2025

Committee

Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2990, now on General Orders

upper

May 16, 2025

Introduced

Introduction and first reading

upper

May 16, 2025

Introduced

Received from House

upper

May 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

Bill was passed as amended

lower

May 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

Amended

lower

Apr 10, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report, to adopt as amended

lower

Mar 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy

lower

1 primary · 1 co-sponsor