---
type: "Bill"
title: "Railroad employees motor carriers regulation amended, and penalties imposed."
description: "Railroad employees motor carriers regulation amended, and penalties imposed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 2881"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2881 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles-Carriers", "Railroads", "Transportation and Transportation Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Masin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-03-10"
last_action: "2014-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02639a2e-9de3-4a11-bbba-7a85efa9319a"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2881&ssn=0&y=2014"
source_hash: "227034981a3eb6259f46b1a43cdc1582cd744bf8d4b84fe2ac1082d9dd21a8ce"
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 2881 (2013-2014) — Railroad employees motor carriers regulation amended, and penalties imposed.

## 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=HF2881&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=HF2881&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=HF2881&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=HF2881&version=3&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
5. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2881&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Masin — primary (person)
- Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Davnie — cosponsor (person)
- Sawatzky — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, J.A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-03-10** Introduction and first reading, referred to Transportation Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2014-03-24** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Transportation Finance `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-27** Author stricken Beard
- **2014-04-02** Author added Davnie
- **2014-04-08** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Rules and Legislative Administration `committee-passage`
- **2014-04-29** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2014-04-29** Joint rule 2.03 waived
- **2014-04-29** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-05-02** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, May 6, 2014
- **2014-05-06** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2014-05-06** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2014-05-16** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2014-05-16** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2014-05-16** Motion prevailed
- **2014-05-16** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2014-05-16** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2014-05-06** Received from House `introduction`
- **2014-05-06** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2014-05-06** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2570, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-07** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF2570
- **2014-05-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-05-14** Special Order: Amended
- **2014-05-14** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2014-05-14** Reconsidered Third Reading
- **2014-05-14** Reconsidered Adoption of amendment
- **2014-05-14** Third reading Passed as amended `passage`
- **2014-05-16** House concurred and repassed bill
- **2014-05-17** Presentment date 05/17/14
- **2014-05-21** Governor's action Approval 05/21/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-05-21** Secretary of State Chapter 300 05/21/14
- **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/02639a2e-9de3-4a11-bbba-7a85efa9319a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).