---
type: "Bill"
title: "Building and construction contracts agreements to insure prohibition"
description: "Building and construction contracts agreements to insure prohibition"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "SF 561"
citation: "Minnesota SF 561 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Buildings and Building Codes", "Commerce and Commerce Department", "Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jensen"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2013-02-18"
last_action: "2013-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9f60102-6327-41a5-ab5e-7a37f2778efe"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0561&ssn=0&y=2013"
source_hash: "76283b310aa9fce229f1a705b65e616ec63d1750ddb2ae35b454cc4d54e92aee"
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 561 (2013-2014) — Building and construction contracts agreements to insure prohibition

## 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=SF561&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=SF561&version=2&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
3. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF561&version=3&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
4. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF561&version=4&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
5. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF561&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Jensen — primary (person)
- Atkins — cosponsor (person)
- Bly — cosponsor (person)
- Dahle — cosponsor (person)
- Davids — cosponsor (person)
- Dehn, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Dettmer — cosponsor (person)
- Dziedzic — cosponsor (person)
- FitzSimmons — cosponsor (person)
- Hilstrom — cosponsor (person)
- Holberg — cosponsor (person)
- Hoppe — cosponsor (person)
- Isaacson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Mahoney — cosponsor (person)
- McNamara — cosponsor (person)
- Metsa — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- O'Neill — cosponsor (person)
- Ortman — cosponsor (person)
- Persell — cosponsor (person)
- Slocum — cosponsor (person)
- Sundin — 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`
- **2013-03-20** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Commerce `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2013-03-21** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Judiciary `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-02** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2013-04-02** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-05-14** Special Order: Amended
- **2013-05-14** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2013-05-17** Returned from House
- **2013-05-21** Presentment date 05/21/13
- **2013-05-24** Governor's action Approval 05/24/13 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-24** Secretary of State Chapter 88 05/24/13
- **2013-08-01** Effective date 08/01/13
- **2013-05-14** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2013-05-14** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF644
- **2013-05-15** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2013-05-15** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-05-15** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Friday, May 17, 2013
- **2013-05-17** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2013-05-17** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2013-05-21** Presented to Governor 05/21/13 `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9f60102-6327-41a5-ab5e-7a37f2778efe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).