---
type: "Bill"
title: "Housing courts and housing calendars allowed to use referees almost exclusively for landlord and tenant cases."
description: "Housing courts and housing calendars allowed to use referees almost exclusively for landlord and tenant cases."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 2479"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2479 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Housing and Housing Finance Agency", "Landlords and Tenants"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hilstrom"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-02-27"
last_action: "2014-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd22eef4-2bc1-4d0d-9b26-0ed729081cfb"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2479&ssn=0&y=2014"
source_hash: "8781d15dd8c888c4fdde093c85f987afc6a93a561f206db1c94cf8f9830cc710"
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 2479 (2013-2014) — Housing courts and housing calendars allowed to use referees almost exclusively for landlord and tenant cases.

## 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=HF2479&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2479&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Hilstrom — primary (person)
- Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Bly — cosponsor (person)
- Cornish — cosponsor (person)
- Drazkowski — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, B. — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Latz — cosponsor (person)
- Lesch — cosponsor (person)
- McNamar — cosponsor (person)
- O'Neill — cosponsor (person)
- Pugh — cosponsor (person)
- Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Slocum — cosponsor (person)
- Winkler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-27** Introduction and first reading, referred to Judiciary Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2014-03-03** Author added Slocum
- **2014-03-06** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-06** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-04-10** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, April 22, 2014
- **2014-04-22** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2014-04-22** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2014-05-05** Returned from Senate
- **2014-05-05** Presented to Governor 05/05/14 `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-23** Received from House `introduction`
- **2014-04-23** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2014-04-23** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2152, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-24** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF2152
- **2014-04-24** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-05-02** Special Order
- **2014-05-02** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2014-05-05** Presentment date 05/05/14
- **2014-05-06** Governor's action Approval 05/06/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-05-08** Secretary of State Chapter 205 05/06/14
- **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/dd22eef4-2bc1-4d0d-9b26-0ed729081cfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).