HF 3363 Minnesota House · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Campaign Finance; street address classified as private data; Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board prohibited from posting private data on its website; noncampaign disbursement use provided for security-related expenses; campaign finance laws modified; Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, local governments, and school districts required to remove, modify, and repost reports and statements on websites; and definitions provided and amended.

HF 3363 prohibits Minnesota's Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board from publishing individual donors' street addresses on its website. It classifies these addresses as private data under state law, meaning they cannot be shared publicly or accessed without the donor's consent, though the Board may still use them for enforcement. The bill also requires the Board to remove existing addresses from its website and modifies rules for political material disclaimers and local campaign finance report content. These changes aim to limit public access to sensitive personal information while maintaining compliance oversight.

Issues: ✓ Technology

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 17, 2026 Last action Apr 13, 2026

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What changed between versions

1st Engrossment → 2nd Engrossment · 6 edits · Apr 15, 2026

MODERATE

This bill revision updates campaign finance rules to better protect candidate privacy and security. Key changes include increasing the allowable budget for security-related expenses from $3,000 to $5,000, adding new categories for structural security devices and security services, and clarifying that security personnel cannot display campaign materials. The bill also reorganizes the statute numbering, adds a new section for classifying candidate addresses as private data for older petitions, and extends the transition period for updating affidavit forms to accommodate the new security requirements.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded to explicitly include structural security devices (like gates and fencing) and general security services as eligible non-campaign disbursements, while maintaining strict limits on how security providers can interact with campaigns.

FISCAL

Increased the annual limit for detection-related security monitoring expenses for candidates from $3,000 to $5,000.

Added new eligibility categories for structural security devices (locks, gates, fencing) and general security services to be reimbursed as non-campaign disbursements.

REQUIREMENT

Added a requirement that security service providers must not display campaign materials or engage in campaign activity on behalf of a candidate.

Modified the disclaimer requirements for independent expenditures to allow the use of an entity's website address if it includes mailing or email information.

TECHNICAL

Reorganized the bill's section numbering and updated the repeal references from the 1st Engrossment to the 2nd Engrossment.

TIMELINE

Added a new section clarifying that affidavits of candidacy submitted before May 1, 2026, are treated as nonpublic data, and extended the transition period for updating affidavit forms to November 4, 2026.

Introduction → 1st Engrossment · 6 edits · Mar 9, 2026

MODERATE

This bill updates Minnesota campaign finance laws to protect individual privacy by classifying street addresses as private data, prohibiting the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board from posting them online, and requiring local governments to redact addresses from their reports. It also expands the definition of 'noncampaign disbursements' to allow candidates to use campaign funds for specific security-related expenses, such as home security hardware, monitoring services, and structural security devices, without those costs counting against their contribution limits. Additionally, the bill modifies disclaimer requirements for independent expenditures and repeals an old rule that allowed officials to waive address disclosure.

Scope change

The bill expands the entities required to redact street addresses to include local governments and school districts, not just the state Board. It also creates a new category of allowable expenses (security services) for candidates.

DEFINITION

Added new definitions for 'Address', 'Street address', 'Noncampaign disbursement', and 'Security services' to clarify what information is protected and what expenses are allowed.

REQUIREMENT

Changed the requirement for the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board to stop posting individual street addresses on its website and to redact them from existing reports.

Required local governments and school districts to remove street addresses from campaign reports posted on their websites and to redact them within seven days.

Modified disclaimer requirements for independent expenditures to allow for email addresses or websites instead of just physical addresses.

Repealed the rule that allowed officials to request a waiver to keep their secondary residence address private.

FISCAL

Added specific security-related expenses (e.g., home security hardware, identity theft monitoring, structural security devices) to the list of allowable 'noncampaign disbursements' that do not count against contribution limits.

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Committee

Apr 13, 2026

Committee

Joint rule 2.03, Deadlines, re-referred to Rules and Legislative Administration

lower

Apr 13, 2026

Lower · Passed

Committee report, to adopt as amended

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Mar 9, 2026

Lower · Passed

Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

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Feb 17, 2026

Introduced

Introduction and first reading, referred to Elections Finance and Government Operations

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1 primary · 3 co-sponsors