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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Rural Finance Authority funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated."
+description: "Rural Finance Authority funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
+legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "HF 2959"
+citation: "Minnesota HF 2959 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture and Agriculture Department", "Banks and Financial Institutions", "Bonds"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Poppe"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-11"
+last_action: "2020-03-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aef14e55-dc65-4bb3-a48c-2cf64c6b4fd4"
+source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2959&ssn=0&y=2020"
+source_hash: "a26b6851182cb897efabd91ef47d0068daa97ad73fa6c3385f3c889a6ee2e212"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mn"]
+---
+
+# Minnesota HF 2959 (2019-2020) — Rural Finance Authority funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2959&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2020&session_number=0)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Hamilton motion - Suspension of Rules — **53–72** (fail) · lower
+- Passage — **127–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Poppe — primary (person)
+- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brand — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Jurgens — cosponsor (person)
+- Kiel — cosponsor (person)
+- Lippert — cosponsor (person)
+- Lueck — cosponsor (person)
+- Poston — cosponsor (person)
+- Sundin — cosponsor (person)
+- Tabke — cosponsor (person)
+- Westrom — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-11** Introduction and first reading, referred to Capital Investment Division `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-13** Authors added Kiel and Sundin
+- **2020-02-19** Motion to suspend rules
+- **2020-02-19** Motion did not prevail
+- **2020-02-24** Author added Jurgens
+- **2020-02-26** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-02** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-02** Second reading `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-04** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 05, 2020
+- **2020-03-05** Third reading `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-05** Bill was passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-12** Returned from Senate
+- **2020-03-17** Presented to Governor 03/17/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-17** Governor approval 03/17/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-17** Secretary of State, Filed 03/17/20
+- **2020-03-09** Received from House `introduction`
+- **2020-03-09** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
+- **2020-03-09** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF3408, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-11** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF3408
+- **2020-03-11** Second reading `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-12** Special Order
+- **2020-03-12** Third reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-03-17** Presentment date 03/17/2020
+- **2020-03-17** Governor's action Approval 03/17/2020 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-26** Secretary of State Chapter 67 03/17/2020
+- **2020-03-18** Effective date 03/18/20
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aef14e55-dc65-4bb3-a48c-2cf64c6b4fd4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).
+