---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military affairs obsolete, redundant, and unnecessary laws removed."
description: "Military affairs obsolete, redundant, and unnecessary laws removed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 2665"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2665 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military and Military Affairs Department", "Statutes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-03-03"
last_action: "2014-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f694d36-caec-4592-b7b0-ae38602d82a2"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2665&ssn=0&y=2014"
source_hash: "fc1951342d12d3e707d1f531509f64add28c7e4e01c55af3d3574acb3b1aeb60"
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 2665 (2013-2014) — Military affairs obsolete, redundant, and unnecessary laws removed.

## 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=HF2665&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2665&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Nelson — primary (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-03-03** Introduction and first reading, referred to State Government Finance and Veterans Affairs `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2014-03-06** Committee report, to adopt as amended `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`
- **2014-03-28** Returned from Senate
- **2014-03-31** Presented to Governor 03/31/14 `executive-receipt`
- **2014-04-02** Governor approval 04/02/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-02** Secretary of State, Filed 04/02/14
- **2014-03-17** Received from House `introduction`
- **2014-03-17** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2014-03-17** Referred to State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-26** Withdrawn and re-referred to Rules and Administration
- **2014-03-27** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF2311
- **2014-03-27** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-03-28** Special Order
- **2014-03-28** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2014-03-31** Presentment date 03/31/14
- **2014-04-02** Governor's action Approval 04/02/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-03** Secretary of State Chapter 152 04/02/14
- **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/7f694d36-caec-4592-b7b0-ae38602d82a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).