---
type: "Bill"
title: "Omnibus environment, natural resources, and agriculture finance and policy bill."
description: "Omnibus environment, natural resources, and agriculture finance and policy bill."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 976"
citation: "Minnesota HF 976 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture and Agriculture Department", "Environment", "Governmental Operations-State", "Natural Resources Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wagenius"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 41
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2013-02-28"
last_action: "2013-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf2e4c80-e377-4e22-8f56-f01d96125f8f"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0976&ssn=0&y=2013"
source_hash: "04e4deb0c8146e020ad92fe3d408e7e9b61c90f25957415417388b2ea3a21595"
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 976 (2013-2014) — Omnibus environment, natural resources, and agriculture finance and policy bill.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **1st Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF976&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF976&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF976&version=2&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
4. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF976&version=3&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
5. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF976&version=4&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
6. **CCR-HF0976** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF976&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0&type=ccr)
7. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF976&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Wagenius — primary (person)
- Atkins — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Poppe — cosponsor (person)
- Tomassoni — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-28** Introduction and first reading, referred to Rules and Legislative Administration `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2013-03-06** Committee report, to pass and re-refer to Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Finance
- **2013-04-11** Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-15** Committee report, to pass as amended
- **2013-04-15** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-15** Author added Poppe
- **2013-04-16** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, April 18th, 2013
- **2013-04-18** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-18** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2013-04-18** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2013-04-22** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2013-04-22** House refuses to concur, conference committee of 5 requested
- **2013-04-22** House conferees Wagenius, Dill, Poppe, Hansen, and Falk
- **2013-04-23** Senate accedes, conference committee of 5 be appointed
- **2013-04-23** Senate conferees Tomassoni, Saxhaug, Sparks, Metzen and Westrom
- **2013-05-18** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2013-05-18** House adopted conference committee report
- **2013-05-18** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2013-05-18** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2013-05-18** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2013-05-22** Presented to Governor 05/22/13 `executive-receipt`
- **2013-04-19** Received from House `introduction`
- **2013-04-19** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2013-04-19** Laid on table
- **2013-04-20** Taken from table
- **2013-04-20** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-20** Laid on table
- **2013-04-22** Taken from table
- **2013-04-22** Special Order: Amended
- **2013-04-22** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2013-04-23** House not concur, conference committee of 5 requested
- **2013-04-23** House conferees Wagenius; Dill; Poppe; Hansen; Falk
- **2013-04-23** Senate accedes, CC of 5 be appointed
- **2013-04-23** Senate conferees Tomassoni; Saxhaug; Sparks; Metzen; Westrom
- **2013-05-18** House adopted HCC report and repassed bill
- **2013-05-18** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2013-05-18** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2013-05-18** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2013-05-22** Presentment date 05/22/13
- **2013-05-23** Governor's action Approval 05/23/13 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-23** Secretary of State Chapter 114 05/23/13

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf2e4c80-e377-4e22-8f56-f01d96125f8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).