Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
2025-2026 Regular Session
Report Date: May 29, 2025 8:03:40 AM
| Bill # | Senate Author | Description | Date Received | Hearing Date | Action Taken | Senate Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF98 | Drazkowski | Pesticide applicators restricted use requirements modifications | 01/16/2025 | |||
| SF99 | Drazkowski | Pesticide applicators restricted use requirements modification | 01/16/2025 | |||
| SF188 | Gustafson | Ortho-phthalate testing results reporting of packaged food requirement | 01/16/2025 | 04/21/2025 | Discussion only | |
| SF239 | Draheim | Cell-cultured meat and cell-cultured poultry definition | 01/16/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF248 | Dibble | Knowing euthanasia prohibition of pet or companion animals with nonanesthetic gas at certain facilities | 01/16/2025 | |||
| SF257 | Abeler | Second Harvest Heartland appropriation | 01/16/2025 | 02/19/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF296 | Dahms | Minnesota Agricultural Education and Leadership Council grants appropriation | 01/21/2025 | 02/03/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF302 | Lang | CelluComp grant appropriation | 01/21/2025 | 02/26/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF303 | Lang | Minnesota-made fertilizer grant program establishment and appropriation | 01/21/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF304 | Lang | Minnesota Made Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) alternative grants appropriation | 02/10/2025 | 02/26/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF305 | Lang | Meat, poultry, egg, and milk processing facilities appropriation | 01/21/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF310 | Dornink | Employee definition modified for the purposes of earned sick and safe time | 01/27/2025 | 02/03/2025 | Reported to the Senate without recommendation | |
| SF327 | Koran | Lawful carry and possession of firearms at the State Fairgrounds establishment | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF388 | Lieske | State veterans cemetery burial fee removal for spouses and dependents of eligible veterans | 01/21/2025 | |||
| SF391 | Lieske | Cottage foods exemption amendment | 01/21/2025 | 02/03/2025 | Laid on the table | |
| SF469 | Johnson | Wolf and elk depredation payments appropriation | 01/21/2025 | 02/26/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF487 | Lieske | Microenterprise home kitchen operation license creation | 01/23/2025 | |||
| SF488 | Green | Veteran retreats appropriation | 01/23/2025 | |||
| SF489 | Green | State veterans cemetery burial fee removal for spouses and dependents of eligible veterans | 01/23/2025 | |||
| SF490 | Green | Registered small farm producer permission to sell fluid raw milk and fluid raw milk product to consumers under certain circumstances | 01/23/2025 | |||
| SF553 | Wesenberg | Farmed Cervidae fencing requirements provisions modifications | 01/23/2025 | 01/29/2025 | Amended and referred to the Committee on Environment, Climate, and Legacy without recommendation | |
| SF568 | Hawj | Veteran definition expansion and advisory task force establishment | 01/23/2025 | 04/02/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on State and Local Government | |
| SF586 | Hauschild | Veterans on the Lake appropriation | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF613 | Hauschild | Veterans on the Lake grant appropriation | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF616 | Drazkowski | Service members bonus appropriation | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF629 | Kupec | Second Harvest Heartland farm to food shelf program appropriation | 01/27/2025 | 02/19/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF659 | Wesenberg | Certain duties transferal from the commissioner of natural resources to the Board of Animal Health | 01/27/2025 | 01/29/2025 | ||
| SF674 | Seeberger | Mental health services and outdoor activities for currently serving military personnel and veterans appropriation | 01/27/2025 | |||
| SF739 | Westrom | Importation of live Cervidae permission to certain accredited facilities | 01/27/2025 | 03/24/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF747 | Wesenberg | Authority over farmed white-tailed deer reinstatement to the Board of Animal Health | 01/30/2025 | |||
| SF756 | Kupec | Civil damages provision for failing to give notice to finding an estray | 01/30/2025 | |||
| SF764 | Wesenberg | Defend the Guard Act establishment | 01/30/2025 | |||
| SF775 | Putnam | Ombudsperson for safety, health, and well-being of agricultural and food processing workers establishment | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF825 | Utke | Dairy development and profitability enhancement continuation and dairy business planning grant programs appropriation | 01/30/2025 | 02/05/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF843 | Hauschild | Matching requirements modification for the lower population density program | 01/30/2025 | |||
| SF866 | Miller | Grave markers for veterans provided by the commissioner of veterans affairs requirement provision and appropriation | 02/03/2025 | |||
| SF868 | Wesenberg | Broadband grants used for fixed wireless broadband authorization and broadband mapping requirements clarification provision | 02/03/2025 | |||
| SF881 | Kupec | Biofuel financial assistance appropriation | 02/03/2025 | 03/10/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF882 | Gustafson | Soil health financial assistance program appropriation | 02/03/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF908 | Kupec | Provisions governing the certification of underground telecommunications installers modification | 04/01/2025 | 04/04/2025 | Recommended to pass | |
| SF934 | Kupec | Agricultural Utilization Research Institute appropriation | 02/03/2025 | 02/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1029 | Westlin | Board of Animal Health commercial dog and cat breeder data collection classification modification and kennel and dealer advertising requirements modifications | 02/06/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety | |
| SF1045 | Farnsworth | Forgotten Heroes Ranges and Retreat grant appropriation | 02/06/2025 | |||
| SF1051 | Farnsworth | Forgotten Heroes Ranges and Retreat grant appropriation | 02/06/2025 | |||
| SF1121 | Frentz | Agriculture-related business assistance appropriation | 02/06/2025 | 03/24/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1126 | Bahr | Sales of unpasteurized milk authorization | 02/10/2025 | |||
| SF1172 | Kupec | Agricultural growth, research, and innovation program account creation in the agricultural fund authorization; appropriating money | 02/10/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1178 | Kupec | Money transferal into the agriculture research, education, extension, and technology transfer (AGREETT) account | 02/10/2025 | 02/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1183 | Gustafson | Nitrate private well mitigation appropriation | 02/10/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1188 | Westrom | Terms definition related to cell-cultured and insect products | 02/10/2025 | |||
| SF1193 | Wesenberg | Wolf depredation compensation program modification | 02/10/2025 | |||
| SF1220 | Seeberger | University of Minnesota Forever Green Initiative money transfer provision | 02/10/2025 | 02/12/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1359 | Rest | Advanced biofuel production incentive modification provision | 02/13/2025 | 03/10/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1389 | Hoffman | Microplastics in meat and poultry study requirement and appropriation | 02/13/2025 | |||
| SF1413 | Kupec | Developing markets for continuous-living cover crops program appropriation | 02/13/2025 | |||
| SF1419 | Putnam | Agricultural assets owners available credit cap elimination provision | 03/06/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1428 | Weber | Beginning farmer tax credits eligibility expansion provision | 02/17/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Taxes | |
| SF1452 | Putnam | Veterans service office grant program and appropriation | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1507 | Dornink | Biofuel infrastructure grants appropriation | 02/17/2025 | 03/10/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1515 | Westrom | Definition of sustainable aviation fuel modification | 02/17/2025 | 03/10/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1516 | Westrom | Agricultural Utilization Research Institute appropriation | 02/17/2025 | |||
| SF1540 | Putnam | Board of Animal Health appropriation | 02/17/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1552 | Kupec | Financial reporting requirements for grain buyers modification | 02/17/2025 | 02/19/2025 | Recommended to pass | |
| SF1559 | Gustafson | Farm to school and early care programs appropriation | 02/17/2025 | 02/19/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1575 | Kupec | Biofertilizer water preservation program establishment and appropriation | 02/20/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety | |
| SF1615 | Hoffman | Commissioner of agriculture appropriation for an agricultural training program for Black youth at historical Black-owned farms | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF1616 | Hoffman | Commissioner of veterans affairs appropriation for a veteran mentorship program for Black youth | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF1628 | Kunesh | Bioincentive payment recipients additional information requirement provision | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF1647 | Johnson | Depredation compensation payments appropriation | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF1704 | Putnam | State Armory Building Commission maximum bonded indebtedness allowed increase provision | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF1705 | Kupec | Veterans burial provisions modifications | 02/20/2025 | |||
| SF1706 | Kupec | Human services data and veterans data provisions modifications | 02/20/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety | |
| SF1753 | Kreun | Agriculture best management practices loan program transferal | 02/24/2025 | |||
| SF1770 | Kupec | Northern crops institute grants appropriation | 02/24/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1782 | Farnsworth | Fishing with Vets grant appropriation | 02/24/2025 | |||
| SF1805 | Dahms | Minnesota Livestock Breeders Association grants appropriation | 02/24/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1831 | Kupec | County agricultural inspector grants appropriation | 02/24/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1839 | Putnam | Program establishment to provide grants to prevent the spread of avian influenza | 02/24/2025 | 02/26/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1840 | Kupec | Grant program appropriation to promote certain nutrient management practices | 02/24/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety | |
| SF1840 | Kupec | Grant program appropriation to promote certain nutrient management practices | 03/27/2025 | 03/05/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety | |
| SF1866 | Westrom | Board of Animal Health appropriation | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF1893 | Putnam | Lutheran Social Services CORE program appropriation | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF1894 | Putnam | Veteran benefit services fees written agreements requirement provision, veterans benefit services providers prohibited from making a guarantee of veterans benefit provision, and Prevention of Consumer Fraud Act remedies provision | 02/27/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety | |
| SF1894 | Putnam | Veteran benefit services fees written agreements requirement provision, veterans benefit services providers prohibited from making a guarantee of veterans benefit provision, and Prevention of Consumer Fraud Act remedies provision | 03/24/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety | |
| SF1930 | Howe | Continued education benefits provision to surviving spouses | 02/27/2025 | |||
| SF1935 | Mohamed | Elective declawing of cats prohibition | 02/27/2025 | 03/24/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF1959 | Putnam | Omnibus Veterans policy and appropriations | 02/27/2025 | 04/04/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Finance | |
| SF2045 | Rest | Equal Access to Broadband Act establishment provision | 03/03/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2137 | Johnson | Minnesota Turf Seed Council grants appropriation | 03/03/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2147 | Kupec | Livestock investment grant program grant awards modification | 03/03/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2183 | Hoffman | Commissioner of veterans affairs appropriation for a grant to an organization to establish a Black veterans support program | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2189 | Kunesh | Commissioner of agriculture appropriation to establish an anonymous means for a person to report potential land ownership violations | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2190 | Kunesh | Study requirement of microplastics in meat and poultry | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2217 | Seeberger | Minnesota State Horticultural Society appropriations | 03/06/2025 | 03/12/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2222 | Howe | Eligibility modification for burial in state veterans cemetery | 03/06/2025 | |||
| SF2259 | Kunesh | Native American United States Veterans memorial appropriation | 03/06/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on State and Local Government | |
| SF2302 | Dahms | Farmed Cervidae provisions modifications | 03/10/2025 | |||
| SF2315 | Dornink | Excess money in the grain indemnity account requirement to be transferred to the agricultural emergency account | 03/10/2025 | |||
| SF2396 | Lang | Certain practices by service providers restriction | 03/10/2025 | |||
| SF2415 | Dibble | Companion Animal Board establishment, duties transfer, rulemaking authorization, and appropriation | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2430 | Kunesh | Local food purchasing assistance program appropriation | 03/13/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2431 | Kupec | Agricultural land trends report requirement provision and appropriation | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2453 | Limmer | Independent Use of Force Investigations authority to investigate certain offenses that occur on state-owned military installations modifications | 03/24/2025 | |||
| SF2458 | Putnam | Omnibus Agriculture, Broadband and Rural Development policy and appropriations | 03/13/2025 | 04/04/2025 | Amended, recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Finance | |
| SF2472 | Hoffman | Veterans resilience project appropriation | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2473 | Hoffman | Minnesota Black Farmers Association purchase of advanced 21st century farming equipment for use by a cooperative of Black veteran farmers appropriation | 03/13/2025 | 04/21/2025 | Discussion only | |
| SF2474 | Hoffman | Board of Animal Health modifications | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2550 | Kupec | Fargo Memorial Honor Guard construction of a chapel and parking lot and related infrastructure at veterans national cemetery in North Dakota appropriation | 03/13/2025 | |||
| SF2610 | Putnam | Beginning farmer program provisions modification | 03/17/2025 | 03/24/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2611 | Putnam | Livestock market agency and dealer licensing provisions modification | 03/17/2025 | 03/24/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2652 | Lang | Commissioner of veterans affairs issued grants reports requirement provision | 03/17/2025 | |||
| SF2771 | Hauschild | Lake County veterans memorial park planning grant appropriation | 03/20/2025 | |||
| SF2786 | Kupec | Biofuels education and promotion program establishment to promote biofuels and sustainable aviation fuel establishment provision, biofuels education and promotion advisory council establishment provision, certain compatibility standards for underground gasoline storage tanks requirement provision, and appropriation | 03/20/2025 | |||
| SF2788 | Dahms | Restricted pesticide handler definition addition provision and restricted pesticide license requirements for handlers modifications | 03/20/2025 | 03/21/2025 | Amended, laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2789 | Wesenberg | Restricted pesticide handler definition addition provision and restricted pesticide license requirements for handlers modifications | 03/20/2025 | |||
| SF2809 | Kunesh | Mental health outreach and support and farm safety grant and outreach programs appropriation | 03/20/2025 | 03/24/2025 | Laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus bill | |
| SF2845 | Boldon | Southeast regional groundwater protection and soil health initiative appropriation | 03/20/2025 | |||
| SF2889 | Champion | Office of Broadband Development renamed the Office of Broadband Development and Digital Equity authorization; office duties and reporting requirements modification; state's broadband goals expansion; multifamily dwelling grant program establishment; definitions for the purpose of broadband development modification | 03/24/2025 | |||
| SF2936 | Seeberger | Pesticide containers burning prohibition provision | 03/24/2025 | |||
| SF2958 | Frentz | Minnesota State Poultry Association appropriation | 03/24/2025 | |||
| SF3024 | Lang | Veteran programming grant appropriation | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3037 | Dahms | Minnesota Agriculture and Rural Leadership program appropriation | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3046 | Boldon | Southeast regional groundwater protection and soil health initiative appropriation | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3068 | Oumou Verbeten | State Agricultural Society requirement to reimburse St. Paul and Falcon Heights for certain expenses | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3077 | Pratt | Certain racehorses residency pilot program establishment and appropriation | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3083 | McEwen | Pesticides from treated seeds addition to the Commissioner of Agriculture's pesticide management plan requirements; appropriating money | 03/27/2025 | 04/21/2025 | Discussion only | |
| SF3090 | Duckworth | Military pay and allowances modifications; pension offset stipends establishment | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3091 | McEwen | Agricultural waste handling regulations modification | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3095 | Hoffman | Internet service providers requirement to provide low-cost broadband Internet to low-income Minnesotans | 03/27/2025 | |||
| SF3143 | Hawj | Agricultural research, education, extension, and technology transfer account money transferal | 04/01/2025 | |||
| SF3204 | Oumou Verbeten | State Agricultural Society public safety account creation in the agricultural fund | 04/01/2025 | |||
| SF3205 | Oumou Verbeten | Special peace officers provisions modification | 04/01/2025 | |||
| SF3226 | Kunesh | Wolf-livestock conflict prevention grants appropriation | 04/02/2025 | |||
| SF3273 | Kunesh | AGRI works and AGRI support grant programs appropriation | 04/03/2025 | |||
| SF3287 | Gustafson | Metro Meals on Wheels appropriation | 04/03/2025 | |||
| SF3302 | Coleman | University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum providing free access to a guest of a disabled veteran request provision | 04/07/2025 | |||
| SF3322 | Housley | United Heroes League grant appropriation | 04/07/2025 | |||
| SF3375 | Wesenberg | Farmed Cervidae premises location data classified as private provision | 04/10/2025 | |||
| SF3384 | Draheim | Notice of entry for noxious weed inspections requirement | 04/22/2025 | |||
| SF3386 | Kunesh | Women's Environmental Institute grant appropriation from the commissioner of agriculture for a farmer incubator project | 04/22/2025 | |||
| SF3387 | Putnam | Every Third Saturday grant appropriation | 04/22/2025 | |||
| SF3502 | Putnam | Farmer-lender mediation program reauthorization | 05/09/2025 | |||
| SF3516 | Champion | Scope modification of certain local plant pest control resolutions and ordinances | 05/13/2025 | |||
| SF3533 | Abeler | Slow the Spread program appropriation to manage spongy moth populations | 05/18/2025 | |||
| SF3534 | Abeler | Slow the Spread program appropriation to manage spongy moth populations | 05/18/2025 | |||
| HF601 | Johnson | Depredation compensation payments appropriation | 04/22/2025 | |||
| HF1330 | Dahms | Gasoline specifications modification | 03/27/2025 | |||
| HF1443 | Putnam | State Armory Building Commission maximum bonded indebtedness allowed increase provision | 03/20/2025 |