---
type: "Bill"
title: "Spousal real estate ownership and mortgage redemption period clarifying and conforming changes made, and transfer on death deeds modified."
description: "Spousal real estate ownership and mortgage redemption period clarifying and conforming changes made, and transfer on death deeds modified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 2188"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2188 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Death", "Real Estate"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hortman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-02-25"
last_action: "2014-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/723e0bc7-b662-4645-8b33-ca9942669b29"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2188&ssn=0&y=2014"
source_hash: "5a08767be75a22cdd5b48e0319062287b0fc7f02484713360019713c3ae02c5d"
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 2188 (2013-2014) — Spousal real estate ownership and mortgage redemption period clarifying and conforming changes made, and transfer on death deeds modified.

## 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=HF2188&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2188&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Hortman — primary (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-25** Introduction and first reading, referred to Judiciary Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2014-03-06** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Civil Law `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-12** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-12** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-03-27** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, March 31, 2014
- **2014-03-31** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2014-03-31** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2014-03-31** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2014-05-14** Returned from Senate
- **2014-05-16** Secretary of State, Filed 05/16/14
- **2014-04-01** Received from House `introduction`
- **2014-04-01** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2014-04-01** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2003, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF2003
- **2014-04-02** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-05-13** Special Order: Rule 45 amendment stricken
- **2014-05-13** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2014-05-14** Presentment date 05/14/14
- **2014-05-16** Governor's action Approval 05/16/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-05-16** Secretary of State Chapter 266 05/16/14
- **2014-08-01** Effective date 08/01/14

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/723e0bc7-b662-4645-8b33-ca9942669b29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).