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2021 Legislation Tracking
Below are the bills we're tracking listed with accompanying descriptions, links to bill pages, and updates on their progress. They are categorized into the four sections of the Minnesota Equity Blueprint, with an additional cross-sectional category.
Human Capital
| HF 11 | MinnesotaCare eligibility expanded and public option established, enrollee premiums modified, affordability definition modified for families, and alternative delivery and payment system implementation plan and recommendations required | Updates: |
| HF 198 | School districts required to provide access to military, skilled trades, and manufacturing career options | |
| HF 217/SF 446 | Increase Teachers of Color Act strengthened, teachers of color and Native American teachers in Minnesota percentage increase sought, reports required, and money appropriated | |
| HF 1041/SF 797 | Increase Teachers of Color Act in higher education strengthened, and student teacher grants and teacher shortage loan forgiveness provisions modified, report required, and money appropriated | |
| HF 1774/SF 1643 | Minnesota Health Plan establishment and appropriation | |
| HF 2195/SF 2111 | Health carriers allowed to offer reference-based pricing health plans | |
| SF 188 | Minnesota inclusion initiative grant program establishment and appropriation | |
| SF 404 | Workforce development internationally trained professionals to earn state professional licenses grants appropriation | |
| SF 604 | MNsure state insurance plan transition to a federally facilitated marketplace; appropriation | |
| SF 1440 | Phased-in minimum wage increase; low-income workers basic needs fulfillment; working family credit, low-income workers child care assistance and reimbursement rates, and Minnesota family investment program grants increases; high-income individuals social security tax loophole closure; sliding fee child care assistance program forecast; appropriation | |
| SF 2010 | Benefit and cost analysis of universal health reform proposal to assist the legislature in comparing it to the current health care financing system; appropriating money | |
| HF 2528/SF 2434 | Minneapolis regional apprenticeship training center appropriation |
Economic Development
| HF 1 | Economic assistance provided for housing, MFIP, food, and broadband; funding provided, and money appropriated |
Updates: On House Calendar for the Day May 13 |
| HF 5 | COVID-19; state appropriations replaced with federal funds, child care providers public health support funds funding provided, basic sliding fee program funding provided, and money appropriated | |
| HF 145 | Child care assistance program, basic sliding fee child care and MFIP child care provisions repealed | |
| HF 245/SF 269 | Family child care regulation modernization project established, report required, and money appropriated | |
| HF 311/SF 291 | Greater Minnesota business development public infrastructure grant program funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated | |
| HF 316 | Family, friend, and neighbor child care grant program established; report required; and money appropriated | |
| HF 414 | Greater Minnesota child care facility program funding provided, and money appropriated. | |
| HF 426/SF 434 | Greater Minnesota business development public infrastructure grant program funding provided, and money appropriated | |
| HF 1105/SF 1078 | Youth job skills and career development appropriation | |
| HF 1784 | Small business support program funding provided, report required, and money appropriated | |
| HF 2068/SF 2187 | Entrepreneurial development funding provided, and money appropriated | |
| HF 2139 | Microenterprise development program established, reports required, and money appropriated | |
| HF 2352/SF 465 | Department of Employment and Economic Development Child Care Business Development appropriation | |
| SF 210 | Employment and economic development department job training competitive grants award priority for high-wage and high-demand careers | |
| SF 547 | Women of Color Opportunity Act | |
| SF 800 | Racial injustice and systemic racism provisions establishment and appropriation | |
| SF 1618 | Minority business development appropriation | |
| SF 2150 | Workforce training and entrepreneurship investments intended to help close the state's opportunity gaps for Minnesotans of color appropriation | |
| HF 1342/SF 1098 | Omnibus workforce and business development finance and policy bill | In conference committee hearing May 10 & 11 |
| SF 2505 | Job skills training for recently released inmates appropriation |
Infrastructure
| HF 14/SF 22 | Broadband grant program money deposit transferred |
Updates: In House Ways and Means committee hearing April 13 |
| HF 40/SF 333 | State rent assistance program established for low-income cost-burdened households, and money appropriated | |
| HF 430/SF 1903 | Greater Minnesota housing infrastructure grant program bond issue and appropriation | |
| HF 443/SF 768 | Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing preservation loans or grants appropriation | |
| HF 545 | Local government aid portion dedicated to city housing | |
| HF 747 | Housing; state's investment maximized, displacement prevented, and Housing Finance Agency-financed rental housing projects required to be affordable for at least 30 years. | |
| HF 1118 | Naturally occurring affordable housing rehabilitation added to housing infrastructure bonds allowable uses | |
| HF 1252 | Housing finance agency policy provisions adopted; affordable housing, workforce housing, and disaster recovery program eligibility requirements expanded; agency debt limit increased; community land trust program individual and family household income limit increased; rehabilitation loan program requirements and use expanded; and technical and conforming changes made | |
| HF 1916/SF 1904 | Housing rehabilitation outside the seven-county metropolitan area appropriation | |
| HF 1991/SF 1906 | Public housing rehabilitation funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated | |
| HF 2174/SF 2343 | Electric transit vehicle infrastructure appropriation bonds issuance authorization and appropriation | |
| HF 2319/SF 2224 | Housing Finance Agency Housing Justice Project funding provided, and money appropriated | |
| SF 168 | Department of transportation pavement investment guide development, implementation, and adherence requirement | |
| SF 241 | Distance learning broadband access grant program establishment; appropriation | |
| SF 474 | Minnesota family investment program, housing, food and broadband assistance appropriation | |
| SF 889 | Rental housing projects financed at least in part by the Housing Finance Agency to be affordable for at least 30 years requirement | |
| HF 1077/SF 969 | Omnibus housing finance and policy bill |
In conference committee hearing May 3 |
Environmental Resilience
| HF 10 | Clean Energy First Act established |
Updates: On House General Register May 12 |
| HF 99 | Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) and other conservation purposes funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated | |
| HF 164/SF 227 | Energy Conservation and Optimization Act of 2021 established | On Senate General Orders May 5 |
| HF 278 | Electric utility renewable energy standard obligations modified, and Public Utility Commission authority to issue electric generation facility site permits modified | |
| HF 661/SF 1506 | Forever Green Agriculture Initiative and the University of Minnesota appropriation | |
| HF 977 | State building solar energy system loan fund established, bonds issued, and money appropriated. | |
| HF 1093/SF 1745 | Environmental Justice Board establishment in the Pollution Control Agency authorization | |
| HF 1256 | Minnesota efficient technology accelerator established to benefit utility consumers by deployment acceleration and cost reduction of emerging and innovating efficient technologies | |
| HF 1323/SF 1997 | Solar energy system loan established in state buildings, bonds issued, and money appropriated | |
| HF 1428/SF 1630 | State greenhouse gas reduction goals amended, governmental actions required to be consistent with goals, and report frequency increased | |
| HF 1750/SF 1556 | Energy Transition Legacy Office established, transition communities and worker advisory committee, state transition plan development required for communities and worker impacted by power plan retirement, and money appropriated | |
| HF 2028/SF 1797 | Pollution Control Agency authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions clarified | |
| HF 2044/SF 1999 | Minnesota Innovation Finance Authority establishment | |
| HF 2081/SF 2367 | State building energy guidelines required to incorporate provisions on addressing climate change resiliency | In capital investment hearing April 8 |
| HF 2083/SF 2027 | Future Fuels Act; transportation fuels carbon intensity reduction standard establishment | |
| HF 2109 | Solar photovoltaic device installation in state-owned buildings funding provided, and money appropriated | |
| HF 2174 | Electric transit vehicle infrastructure appropriation bonds issued, and money appropriated | |
| HF 2200 | Climate change grant program established to provide financial assistance to cities, and money appropriated | |
| HF 2211/SF 2191 | Multifamily building composting encouragement and increase pilot project grant funding provided, and money appropriated | |
| HF 2334/SF 2127 | Environmental justice considerations in determining certain state permitting authorization | |
| HF 2407/SF 51 | Environmental emission revenue-neutral assessment provided, refundable FICA and property tax credit provided, credit against income tax to be paid as dividends provided, energy efficiency and renewable energy project loans authorized, rulemaking authority provided, reports required, and money appropriated | |
| SF 51 | Carbon Assessment and Dividend Act | |
| SF 338 | Biomass as an eligible energy technology definition modification; energy that electricity-generating utilities must supply from renewable sources and setting target dates by which those goals must be achieved proportion increase | |
| SF 1086 | All-electric vehicles surcharge modification; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles surcharge authorization; motor vehicle tax fuels tax adjustment establishment | |
| SF 2033 | Construction materials environmental impact study appropriation | |
| HF 1076/SF 959 | Omnibus environment, natural resources, and tourism policy and finance bill |
In conference committee May 13 |
Cross-Sectional
| HF 1270 | Clean energy sector career training pilot project for youth from underserved communities funding provided, and money appropriated | Updates: |
| HF 1278/SF 1814 | Great Start for All Minnesota Children Task Force establishment and appropriation | |
| SF 1259 | Clean energy career training pilot project appropriation |
