---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment and Economic Development Department, Metropolitan Council, and MN.IT; obsolete, redundant, and unnecessary laws repealed; and conforming changes made."
description: "Employment and Economic Development Department, Metropolitan Council, and MN.IT; obsolete, redundant, and unnecessary laws repealed; and conforming changes made."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 2948"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2948 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment and Economic Development Department", "Metropolitan Area", "Statutes", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mahoney"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-03-10"
last_action: "2014-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af5f277b-cfe8-4bc9-9f78-2e4b7fec2e66"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2948&ssn=0&y=2014"
source_hash: "f9b24f50c1cdafb2fbb917877ec12914ceb023daed4e922cba948abb298f6744"
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 2948 (2013-2014) — Employment and Economic Development Department, Metropolitan Council, and MN.IT; obsolete, redundant, and unnecessary laws repealed; and conforming changes made.

## 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=HF2948&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
2. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2948&version=2&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
3. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2948&version=3&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
4. **CCR-HF2948** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2948&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0&type=ccr)
5. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2948&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Mahoney — primary (person)
- Sparks — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-03-10** Introduction and first reading, referred to Jobs and Economic Development Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2014-03-20** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2014-03-20** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-04-03** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, April 7, 2014
- **2014-04-07** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-07** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2014-04-07** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2014-04-25** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2014-04-25** House refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2014-04-25** House conferees Mahoney, Persell, Gunther
- **2014-04-28** Senate accedes, conference committee of 3 be appointed
- **2014-04-28** Senate conferees Sparks, Bonoff, Dahms
- **2014-05-07** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2014-05-07** Motion to adopt conference committee report
- **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
- **2014-05-14** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2014-05-16** Secretary of State, Filed 05/16/14
- **2014-04-08** Received from House `introduction`
- **2014-04-08** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2014-04-08** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2617, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-09** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF2617
- **2014-04-09** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-04-23** Special Order
- **2014-04-23** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2014-04-25** House not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2014-04-25** House conferees Mahoney; Persell; Gunther
- **2014-04-25** Senate accedes, CC of 3 be appointed
- **2014-04-25** Senate conferees Sparks; Bonoff; Dahms
- **2014-05-13** House adopted HCC report and repassed bill
- **2014-05-13** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2014-05-13** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2014-05-13** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2014-05-14** Presentment date 05/14/14
- **2014-05-16** Governor's action Approval 05/16/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-05-16** Secretary of State Chapter 271 05/16/14
- **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/af5f277b-cfe8-4bc9-9f78-2e4b7fec2e66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).