---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher education statutes modernized, streamlined, and clarified; unnecessary, or redundant laws and rules eliminated; and obsolete language and unnecessary verbiage deleted."
description: "Higher education statutes modernized, streamlined, and clarified; unnecessary, or redundant laws and rules eliminated; and obsolete language and unnecessary verbiage deleted."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 2647"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2647 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education-Higher", "Statutes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pelowski"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-03-03"
last_action: "2014-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96f03e3a-a5f4-40ed-89df-f45ea5aeaab4"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2647&ssn=0&y=2014"
source_hash: "def46f87bd99ba888c5020c5e496ccd6709922d82a1fd1517b984f998724f275"
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 2647 (2013-2014) — Higher education statutes modernized, streamlined, and clarified; unnecessary, or redundant laws and rules eliminated; and obsolete language and unnecessary verbiage deleted.

## 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=HF2647&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Pelowski — primary (person)
- Bonoff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-03-03** Introduction and first reading, referred to Higher Education Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2014-03-06** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-06** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-03-12** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 13, 2014
- **2014-03-13** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2014-03-13** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2014-03-21** Returned from Senate
- **2014-03-25** Governor approval 03/25/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-03-25** Secretary of State, Filed 03/25/14
- **2014-03-17** Received from House `introduction`
- **2014-03-17** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2014-03-17** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2224, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-19** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF2224
- **2014-03-19** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-03-20** Special Order
- **2014-03-20** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2014-03-21** Presentment date 03/21/14
- **2014-03-25** Governor's action Approval 03/25/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-03-26** Secretary of State Chapter 149 03/25/14
- **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/96f03e3a-a5f4-40ed-89df-f45ea5aeaab4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).