---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rural Finance Authority funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated."
description: "Rural Finance Authority funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HF 14"
citation: "Minnesota HF 14 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture and Agriculture Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miller"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-05"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3868ba0-c401-4c21-bc52-99ff03a9f214"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0014&ssn=0&y=2017"
source_hash: "a5b3d579e8d550162efb5d187f27a5afc89d2719ec6e1f38de0dc4639cd28173"
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 14 (2017-2018) — Rural Finance Authority funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated.

## 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=HF14&version=1&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF14&version=0&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)

## Votes

- H.F. NO. 14 — **129–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Miller — primary (person)
- Backer — cosponsor (person)
- Dettmer — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Jurgens — cosponsor (person)
- Lang — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-05** Introduction and first reading, referred to Agriculture Finance `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-09** Author added Johnson, C.
- **2017-01-19** Author added Backer.
- **2017-01-26** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Capital Investment `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-01** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-01** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** Author added Jurgens.
- **2017-02-02** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, February 6, 2017
- **2017-02-06** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-06** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2017-02-09** Author added Dettmer.
- **2017-02-16** Returned from Senate
- **2017-02-16** Presented to Governor 2/16/2017 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-02-17** Governor approval 2/17/2017 `executive-signature`
- **2017-02-21** Secretary of State, Filed 02/21/17
- **2017-02-09** Received from House `introduction`
- **2017-02-09** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2017-02-09** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-15** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Special Order
- **2017-02-16** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2017-02-16** Presentment date 02/16/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's action Approval 02/17/17 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3868ba0-c401-4c21-bc52-99ff03a9f214`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).