---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employee personal sick leave benefit use expansion"
description: "Employee personal sick leave benefit use expansion"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "SF 840"
citation: "Minnesota SF 840 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children and Families", "Employment and Economic Development Department", "Labor", "Employment", "and Labor and Industry Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Champion"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2013-02-28"
last_action: "2013-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd9fdbaf-3611-4ad3-b59e-8d2f29e94c94"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0840&ssn=0&y=2013"
source_hash: "81bb436845b17c215e44e0b8bd0ac668701c08109953ad5f01d5b90c2625358d"
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 840 (2013-2014) — Employee personal sick leave benefit use expansion

## 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=SF840&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=SF840&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=SF840&version=3&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
4. **CCR-SF0840** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF840&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0&type=ccr)
5. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF840&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Champion — primary (person)
- Abeler — cosponsor (person)
- Anzelc — cosponsor (person)
- Bakk — cosponsor (person)
- Benson, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
- Bly — cosponsor (person)
- Dorholt — cosponsor (person)
- Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Fritz — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Hayden — cosponsor (person)
- Hortman — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Lesch — cosponsor (person)
- Liebling — cosponsor (person)
- Lien — cosponsor (person)
- Lillie — cosponsor (person)
- Mahoney — cosponsor (person)
- Mariani — cosponsor (person)
- Marty — cosponsor (person)
- Masin — cosponsor (person)
- Melin — cosponsor (person)
- Metsa — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Radinovich — cosponsor (person)
- Schoen — cosponsor (person)
- Sundin — cosponsor (person)
- Wagenius — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-28** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2013-02-28** Referred to Jobs, Agriculture and Rural Development `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-02** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Finance `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-02** Withdrawn
- **2013-04-02** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-11** Author added Marty
- **2013-04-15** Special Order: Amended
- **2013-04-15** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2013-04-26** Returned from House with amendment
- **2013-04-26** Senate not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2013-05-13** Senate conferees Champion; Hayden; Nelson
- **2013-05-13** House conferees Hansen; Melin; Kieffer
- **2013-05-14** Author added Bakk
- **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`
- **2013-05-17** House adopted SCC report and repassed bill
- **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 87 05/24/13
- **2013-08-01** Effective date 08/01/13
- **2013-04-15** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2013-04-15** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF568
- **2013-04-16** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2013-04-16** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-23** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, April 25, 2013
- **2013-04-25** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-25** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2013-04-25** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2013-05-13** Senate refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2013-05-13** Senate conferees Champion, Hayden, Nelson
- **2013-05-13** House accedes, conference committee of 3 to be appointed
- **2013-05-13** House conferees Hansen, Melin, and Kieffer.
- **2013-05-16** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2013-05-16** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2013-05-16** House adopted conference committee report
- **2013-05-16** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2013-05-16** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **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/fd9fdbaf-3611-4ad3-b59e-8d2f29e94c94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).