---
type: "Bill"
title: "Omnibus jobs, economic development, housing, commerce, and energy bill."
description: "Omnibus jobs, economic development, housing, commerce, and energy bill."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 729"
citation: "Minnesota HF 729 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment and Economic Development Department", "Labor", "Employment", "and Labor and Industry Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mahoney"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 49
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93d51e4f-0059-435d-ba0a-8b5057006140"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0729&ssn=0&y=2013"
source_hash: "0c7b08f4bff40bbec7a6cb6bc75aa8e7340f8086c3a371846eb5495cf981691a"
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 729 (2013-2014) — Omnibus jobs, economic development, housing, commerce, and energy bill.

## 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=HF729&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF729&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF729&version=2&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
4. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF729&version=3&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
5. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF729&version=4&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
6. **CCR-HF0729** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF729&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0&type=ccr)
7. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF729&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-20** Introduction and first reading, referred to Rules and Legislative Administration `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2013-02-28** Committee report, to pass and re-refer to Jobs and Economic Development Finance and Policy
- **2013-04-08** Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-10** Committee report, to pass as amended
- **2013-04-10** House rule 6.50, motion to lay over committee report
- **2013-04-10** Motion did not prevail
- **2013-04-10** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-11** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, April 15, 2013
- **2013-04-15** Reported to the House
- **2013-04-15** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-15** Amendments offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2013-04-15** Point of order raised, ruled well taken
- **2013-04-15** Point of order raised, ruled well taken
- **2013-04-15** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2013-04-15** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2013-04-20** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2013-04-20** House refuses to concur, conference committee of 5 requested
- **2013-04-22** House conferees Mahoney; Atkins; Clark; Johnson, S.; and Gunther
- **2013-04-23** Senate accedes, conference committee of 5 be appointed
- **2013-04-23** Senate conferees Tomassoni, Saxhaug, Sparks, Metzen and Westrom
- **2013-05-15** Joint rule 2.06 - twelve hour rule suspended
- **2013-05-15** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2013-05-15** Motion to adopt conference committee report
- **2013-05-15** Motion to return bill to conference committee
- **2013-05-15** Motion did not prevail
- **2013-05-15** House adopted conference committee report question recurred
- **2013-05-15** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2013-05-15** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2013-05-16** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2013-05-21** Presented to Governor 05/21/13 `executive-receipt`
- **2013-04-16** Received from House `introduction`
- **2013-04-16** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2013-04-16** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-19** Comm report: Amended
- **2013-04-19** Comm report: No recommendation
- **2013-04-19** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-20** Special Order
- **2013-04-20** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2013-04-23** House not concur, conference committee of 5 requested
- **2013-04-23** House conferees Mahoney; Atkins; Clark; Johnson, S.; Gunther
- **2013-04-23** Senate accedes, CC of 5 be appointed
- **2013-04-23** Senate conferees Tomassoni; Saxhaug; Sparks; Metzen; Westrom
- **2013-05-16** House adopted HCC report and repassed bill
- **2013-05-16** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2013-05-16** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2013-05-16** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2013-05-21** Presentment date 05/21/13
- **2013-05-23** Governor's action Approval 05/23/13 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-23** Secretary of State Chapter 85 05/23/13

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93d51e4f-0059-435d-ba0a-8b5057006140`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).