---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicle forfeiture provisions modification for inclusion of more than one vehicle owner"
description: "Motor vehicle forfeiture provisions modification for inclusion of more than one vehicle owner"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SF 151"
citation: "Minnesota SF 151 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legal Proceedings", "Motor Vehicles", "Motor Vehicles-Registration", "Licensing", "and Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Newman"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ad0d067-99f8-49e3-a395-83c8ea0dcea1"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0151&ssn=0&y=2017"
source_hash: "d7f361b06466b613c821c3c7ee8f3930eada928af76fdf034eb77ef374a7450e"
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 SF 151 (2017-2018) — Motor vehicle forfeiture provisions modification for inclusion of more than one vehicle owner

## 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=SF151&version=0&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)

## Votes

- S.F. NO. 151 — **128–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Newman — primary (person)
- Albright — cosponsor (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Considine — cosponsor (person)
- Dehn, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Drazkowski — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Ingebrigtsen — cosponsor (person)
- Latz — cosponsor (person)
- Lesch — cosponsor (person)
- Liebling — cosponsor (person)
- Limmer — cosponsor (person)
- Lucero — cosponsor (person)
- Maye Quade — cosponsor (person)
- McDonald — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Nash — cosponsor (person)
- O'Neill — cosponsor (person)
- Omar — cosponsor (person)
- Quam — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2017-01-17** Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Finance and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-16** Special Order
- **2017-03-16** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned from House
- **2017-03-30** Presentment date 03/30/17
- **2017-04-04** Governor's action Approval 04/03/17 `executive-signature`
- **2017-03-16** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2017-03-16** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF389
- **2017-03-20** Bills identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2017-03-20** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Wednesday, March 29, 2017
- **2017-03-29** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-29** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2017-03-30** Presented to Governor 03/30/17 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-04-03** Governor approval 04/03/17 `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-03** Secretary of State, Filed 04/03/2017

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ad0d067-99f8-49e3-a395-83c8ea0dcea1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).