---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal record expungement governing provisions modified, business screening services required to delete expunged records, and eviction record expungement allowed in some cases."
description: "Criminal record expungement governing provisions modified, business screening services required to delete expunged records, and eviction record expungement allowed in some cases."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 2576"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2576 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Criminals", "Data Practices and Privacy", "Landlords and Tenants"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Melin"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 43
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-03-03"
last_action: "2014-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0987e3b-cb3a-493a-b914-0260a3be1e44"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2576&ssn=0&y=2014"
source_hash: "5692f520c2b552d64192d34112fd13ffe938b4b40a29ad9351fa65fe1da17fd2"
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 2576 (2013-2014) — Criminal record expungement governing provisions modified, business screening services required to delete expunged records, and eviction record expungement allowed in some 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=HF2576&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=HF2576&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=HF2576&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=HF2576&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=HF2576&version=4&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
6. **5th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2576&version=5&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
7. **6th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2576&version=6&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
8. **7th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2576&version=7&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
9. **CCR-HF2576** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2576&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0&type=ccr)
10. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2576&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Melin — primary (person)
- Champion — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Dehn, R. — cosponsor (person)
- FitzSimmons — cosponsor (person)
- Hertaus — cosponsor (person)
- Hilstrom — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Lesch — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy, M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-03-03** Introduction and first reading, referred to Judiciary Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2014-03-10** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Civil Law `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-17** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Public Safety Finance and Policy `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-24** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Early Childhood and Youth Development Policy `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-27** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2014-04-02** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2014-04-02** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-04-04** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, April 8, 2014
- **2014-04-08** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-08** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2014-04-08** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2014-04-09** Authors added Moran, Clark, and Murphy, M.
- **2014-04-25** Author added Johnson, S.
- **2014-04-29** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2014-04-29** House refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2014-04-29** House conferees Melin, Hilstrom, Cornish
- **2014-04-30** Senate accedes, conference committee of 3 be appointed
- **2014-04-30** Senate conferees Champion; Petersen, B.; Goodwin
- **2014-05-08** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2014-05-08** House adopted conference committee report
- **2014-05-08** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2014-05-08** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2014-05-09** Senate concurrence and repassage
- **2014-05-12** Presented to Governor 05/12/14 `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-09** Received from House `introduction`
- **2014-04-09** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2014-04-09** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2214, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-10** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF2214
- **2014-04-10** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-04-28** Special Order: Amended
- **2014-04-28** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2014-04-29** House not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2014-04-29** House conferees Melin; Hilstrom; Cornish
- **2014-04-29** Senate accedes, CC of 3 be appointed
- **2014-04-29** Senate conferees Champion; Petersen B.; Goodwin
- **2014-05-09** House adopted HCC report and repassed bill
- **2014-05-09** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2014-05-09** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2014-05-09** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2014-05-12** Presentment date 05/12/14
- **2014-05-14** Governor's action Approval 05/14/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-05-15** Secretary of State Chapter 246 05/14/14
- **2014-08-01** Effective date Sec. 1-2, 4-5, 15 08/01/14; Sec. 3, 6-8, 10-14 01/01/15; Sec. 9 05/15/14

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0987e3b-cb3a-493a-b914-0260a3be1e44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).