---
type: "Bill"
title: "Jury service exclusion prohibited on the basis of marital status or sexual orientation."
description: "Jury service exclusion prohibited on the basis of marital status or sexual orientation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 335"
citation: "Minnesota HF 335 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Simon"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2013-02-04"
last_action: "2013-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/064c47b1-a3b3-46ea-be42-33cc6bf5a6e5"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0335&ssn=0&y=2013"
source_hash: "fcacb731ff86fb004c3a9adb29aa0cb65ae647a4538b7bcf383dbbedc1e43e9c"
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 335 (2013-2014) — Jury service exclusion prohibited on the basis of marital status or sexual orientation.

## 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=HF335&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Simon — primary (person)
- Benson, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Dehn, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Dibble — cosponsor (person)
- Erhardt — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Hausman — cosponsor (person)
- Liebling — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, J.A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-02-04** Introduction and first reading, referred to Civil Law `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2013-02-11** Authors added Liebling, Hausman and Newton
- **2013-02-13** Committee report, to pass and re-refer to Judiciary Finance and Policy
- **2013-02-25** Committee report, to pass
- **2013-02-25** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-05-09** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, May 13, 2013
- **2013-05-13** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2013-05-13** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2013-05-17** Returned from Senate
- **2013-05-21** Presented to Governor 05/21/13 `executive-receipt`
- **2013-05-13** Received from House `introduction`
- **2013-05-13** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2013-05-13** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF41, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-14** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF41
- **2013-05-14** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-05-17** Special Order
- **2013-05-17** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2013-05-21** Presentment date 05/21/13
- **2013-05-24** Governor's action Approval 05/24/13 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-24** Secretary of State Chapter 90 05/24/13
- **2013-08-01** Effective date 08/01/13

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/064c47b1-a3b3-46ea-be42-33cc6bf5a6e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).