---
type: "Bill"
title: "Legislative Salary Council established, and constitutional amendment to remove lawmakers' power to set their own pay proposed and modified."
description: "Legislative Salary Council established, and constitutional amendment to remove lawmakers' power to set their own pay proposed and modified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 3169"
citation: "Minnesota HF 3169 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Constitutional Amendments", "Governmental Operations-State", "Legislature"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Metsa"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-03-17"
last_action: "2014-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed36a11d-f2aa-4e2e-887c-1796b878072e"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF3169&ssn=0&y=2014"
source_hash: "41a52da296318744c6d230a5b0394c29d16b166de411416a9958e963f9338dac"
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 3169 (2013-2014) — Legislative Salary Council established, and constitutional amendment to remove lawmakers' power to set their own pay proposed and modified.

## 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=HF3169&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=HF3169&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=HF3169&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=HF3169&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=HF3169&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=HF3169&version=5&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
7. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF3169&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Metsa — primary (person)
- Eken — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-03-17** Introduction and first reading, referred to Government Operations `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2014-04-01** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Rules and Legislative Administration `committee-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Joint rule 2.03 waived
- **2014-05-06** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2014-05-06** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-05-06** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, May 8, 2014
- **2014-05-08** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-08** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2014-05-08** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2014-05-15** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2014-05-15** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2014-05-15** Motion prevailed
- **2014-05-15** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2014-05-15** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2014-05-16** Presented to Governor 05/16/14 `executive-receipt`
- **2014-05-09** Received from House `introduction`
- **2014-05-09** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2014-05-09** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2575, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-12** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF2575
- **2014-05-12** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-05-13** Special Order: Rule 45 amendment stricken
- **2014-05-13** Third reading Passed as amended `passage`
- **2014-05-15** House concurred and repassed bill
- **2014-05-16** Presentment date 05/16/14
- **2014-05-21** Governor's action Approval 05/21/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-05-21** Secretary of State Chapter 282 05/21/14

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed36a11d-f2aa-4e2e-887c-1796b878072e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).