---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employers criminal history reliance for job applicants limitations and remedies imposition"
description: "Employers criminal history reliance for job applicants limitations and remedies imposition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "SF 523"
citation: "Minnesota SF 523 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Criminals", "Employment and Economic Development Department", "Labor", "Employment", "and Labor and Industry Department", "Legal Proceedings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Champion"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2013-02-18"
last_action: "2014-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80b9a358-8d02-4801-a633-9aaac534c5a4"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0523&ssn=0&y=2013"
source_hash: "c5399108db531ba6611a53234f8ea7f3956b04425fce06d7ef54a895ca088fcc"
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 SF 523 (2013-2014) — Employers criminal history reliance for job applicants limitations and remedies imposition

## 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=SF523&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
2. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF523&version=2&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
3. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF523&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Champion — primary (person)
- Beard — cosponsor (person)
- Chamberlain — cosponsor (person)
- Cornish — cosponsor (person)
- Dehn, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Dorholt — cosponsor (person)
- Eaton — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- FitzSimmons — cosponsor (person)
- Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Hayden — cosponsor (person)
- Isaacson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Leidiger — cosponsor (person)
- Lesch — cosponsor (person)
- Mahoney — cosponsor (person)
- Melin — cosponsor (person)
- Metsa — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Schoen — cosponsor (person)
- Tomassoni — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-18** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2013-02-18** Referred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-13** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Jobs, Agriculture and Rural Development `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2013-03-20** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2013-03-20** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-20** Special Order: Amended
- **2013-04-20** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2013-05-09** Returned from House
- **2013-05-09** Presentment date 05/09/13
- **2013-05-15** Governor's action Approval 05/13/13 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-15** Secretary of State Chapter 61 05/13/13
- **2014-01-01** Effective date 01/01/14
- **2013-04-22** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2013-04-22** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison
- **2013-04-23** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2013-04-23** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-05-06** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Wednesday, May 8, 2013
- **2013-05-08** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2013-05-08** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2013-05-09** Presented to Governor 05/09/13 `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80b9a358-8d02-4801-a633-9aaac534c5a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).