---
type: "Bill"
title: "Women's Economic Security Act (WESA) various provisions established and modified, and money appropriated."
description: "Women's Economic Security Act (WESA) various provisions established and modified, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 2536"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2536 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Employment and Economic Development Department", "Uniform Acts", "Wages", "Women"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Melin"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 53
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-02-27"
last_action: "2014-05-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f654a193-f9ba-48ff-ad58-5d221c98a7e6"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2536&ssn=0&y=2014"
source_hash: "28b9106d560725e3d9259e62604b073dd9b8ab25d669e0d1669007c321b8d67d"
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 2536 (2013-2014) — Women's Economic Security Act (WESA) various provisions established and modified, and money appropriated.

## 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=HF2536&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2536&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2536&version=2&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
4. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2536&version=3&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
5. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2536&version=4&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
6. **CCR-HF2536** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2536&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0&type=ccr)
7. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2536&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Melin — primary (person)
- Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
- Bly — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Davnie — cosponsor (person)
- Falk — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Fritz — cosponsor (person)
- Halverson — cosponsor (person)
- Hornstein — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Kahn — cosponsor (person)
- Loeffler — cosponsor (person)
- Mahoney — cosponsor (person)
- Masin — cosponsor (person)
- McNamar — cosponsor (person)
- Metsa — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Mullery — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy, E. — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Pappas — cosponsor (person)
- Paymar — cosponsor (person)
- Savick — cosponsor (person)
- Sawatzky — cosponsor (person)
- Schoen — cosponsor (person)
- Selcer — cosponsor (person)
- Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Simonson — cosponsor (person)
- Slocum — cosponsor (person)
- Wagenius — cosponsor (person)
- Winkler — cosponsor (person)
- Yarusso — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-27** Introduction and first reading, referred to Jobs and Economic Development Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2014-03-03** Authors added Paymar and Slocum
- **2014-03-10** Authors added Kahn and Loeffler
- **2014-03-17** Author added Mullery
- **2014-03-19** Author added Newton
- **2014-03-24** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2014-04-02** Author added Hornstein
- **2014-04-03** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2014-04-03** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-04-03** Author added Freiberg
- **2014-04-07** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Wednesday, April 9, 2014
- **2014-04-09** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-09** Point of order raised, ruled not well taken
- **2014-04-09** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2014-04-09** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2014-04-09** Authors added Bernardy and Schoen
- **2014-04-24** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2014-04-24** House refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2014-04-24** House conferees Melin, Moran, Kresha
- **2014-04-25** Senate accedes, conference committee of 3 be appointed
- **2014-04-25** Senate conferees Pappas, Sieben, Rosen
- **2014-05-07** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2014-05-07** Motion to adopt conference committee report
- **2014-05-07** Motion to return bill to conference committee
- **2014-05-07** Motion did not prevail
- **2014-05-07** Motion to adopt conference committee report question recurred
- **2014-05-07** House adopted conference committee report
- **2014-05-07** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2014-05-07** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2014-05-09** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2014-05-11** Governor approval 05/11/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-05-11** Secretary of State, Filed 05/11/14
- **2014-04-10** Received from House `introduction`
- **2014-04-10** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2014-04-10** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2050, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-22** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF2050
- **2014-04-22** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-04-23** Special Order: Amended
- **2014-04-23** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2014-04-24** House not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2014-04-24** House conferees Melin; Moran; Kresha
- **2014-04-24** Senate accedes, CC of 3 be appointed
- **2014-04-24** Senate conferees Pappas; Sieben; Rosen
- **2014-05-08** House adopted HCC report and repassed bill
- **2014-05-08** Laid on table
- **2014-05-08** Taken from table
- **2014-05-08** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2014-05-08** Motion to reject CC report, did not prevail
- **2014-05-08** Senate adopted CC report
- **2014-05-08** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2014-05-09** Presentment date 05/09/14
- **2014-05-11** Governor's action Approval 05/11/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-05-12** Secretary of State Chapter 239 05/11/14

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f654a193-f9ba-48ff-ad58-5d221c98a7e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).