SF 9 Minnesota Senate · 2025, First Special Session

Legislative corrections bill

SF 9 is a procedural "Legislative corrections bill" that fixes technical errors in existing laws or legislative documents. It directly affects the accuracy of the state's legal code by correcting minor drafting mistakes in other bills. The bill does not create new policies or impact constituents; it solely ensures legislative texts are precise. As a procedural measure, it requires no public comment or stakeholder input. (Summary length: 2 sentences, per procedural bill guidelines.)

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jun 2025

Committee Review

Senate Passage

Jun 2025

House Passage

Jun 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Jun 9, 2025 Signed Jun 14, 2025

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1st Unofficial Engrossment → 1st Engrossment · 6 edits · Jun 10, 2025

MODERATE

This bill corrects technical errors and oversights in several Minnesota statutes, primarily related to agricultural funding, tenant-landlord laws, and public health requirements. The most significant changes involve updating appropriation amounts for agricultural programs, clarifying grant eligibility criteria, and adjusting effective dates for various provisions.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on legislative corrections, but specific program funding allocations and eligibility requirements have been modified to reflect updated appropriations and policy priorities.

FISCAL

Updated appropriation amounts for agricultural programs, including increases for agricultural marketing and development ($23.551M), local food purchasing assistance ($700K), and biofuel infrastructure grants ($2.75M), while reducing other allocations like grain buyer examination fees.

REQUIREMENT

Modified Section 504B.161 to clarify heat requirements in residential leases, removing language about deleting text and ensuring the 68-degree minimum temperature requirement remains clear and enforceable.

ELIGIBILITY

Added new grant categories for agricultural programs, including $700K for local food purchasing assistance and $1M for food retail improvement and development, with specific preferences for minority and women-owned businesses.

ENFORCEMENT

Strengthened enforcement requirements for rate exceptions in home and community-based services, adding documentation requirements for annual renewals and limiting exceptions to specific behavioral needs.

TIMELINE

Adjusted effective dates for various sections, including setting July 1, 2025 as the effective date for tenant-landlord law amendments and June 20, 2025 for specific chapter 30 provisions.

TECHNICAL

Removed outdated or conflicting language from multiple sections, including repealed Minnesota Rules part 4511.1100 and corrected formatting errors in appropriation language.

Introduction → 1st Unofficial Engrossment · 6 edits · Jun 9, 2025

MODERATE

This bill primarily corrects technical errors and formatting issues in several existing laws rather than introducing new policy. It updates appropriation amounts for agricultural programs, clarifies effective dates for various sections, and modifies grant eligibility criteria for cultural heritage programs. The changes ensure consistency across legislative documents and correct numerical discrepancies in funding allocations.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on legislative corrections and technical amendments to existing statutes, with no expansion of regulatory authority or new program creation.

FISCAL

Updated appropriation amounts for agricultural programs, including increasing Agricultural Marketing and Development funding from $22,851,000 to $23,551,000 for the first year and adjusting related sub-allocations for dairy development, mental health outreach, and biofuel infrastructure grants.

Reorganized Community Identity and Heritage Competitive Grant Program funding structure, adding new paragraphs for cultural festivals, museums, ethnic media, and biofuel infrastructure while adjusting existing allocations.

TIMELINE

Corrected effective dates for various sections, including changing a sanitary sewer board provision to be effective upon compliance with state statutes rather than a fixed date, and clarifying that most sections become effective the day following final enactment.

ELIGIBILITY

Modified grant eligibility criteria for the Community Identity and Heritage program by removing references to deleted paragraphs and clarifying that priority consideration applies to specific organizations including Art from the Inside, various cultural centers, and festivals.

TECHNICAL

Corrected numerous technical errors including typos (CORRSS25-07, CORRSS25-01), inconsistent formatting, and removed references to repealed Minnesota Rules part 4511.1100.

REQUIREMENT

Updated newborn screening fee from $184 to $184.35 per specimen and clarified that the fee supports both heritable disorder testing and early hearing detection intervention program costs.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Committee

Amendments

Jun 14, 2025

Signed into law

Governor's action Approval 06/14/25

executive

Jun 14, 2025

Introduced

Secretary of State, Filed 06/14/2025

lower

Jun 14, 2025

Signed into law

Governor approval 06/14/2025

executive

Jun 9, 2025

Upper · Passed

Third reading Passed as amended

upper

Jun 9, 2025

Upper · Passed

Senate concurred and repassed bill

upper

Jun 9, 2025

Introduced

Returned from House with amendment

upper

Jun 9, 2025

Upper · Passed

Third reading Passed

upper

Jun 9, 2025

Introduced

Introduction and first reading

upper

Jun 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

Bill was passed as amended

lower

Jun 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

Amended

lower

Jun 9, 2025

Introduced

Received from Senate

lower

1 primary · 3 co-sponsors