---
type: "Bill"
title: "Police and firefighters civil service commissions and department employees provisions modifications"
description: "Police and firefighters civil service commissions and department employees provisions modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SF 1354"
citation: "Minnesota SF 1354 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commissions", "Fire and Firefighters", "Government-Employees", "Law Enforcement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Latz"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-02-23"
last_action: "2017-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e77410b-b940-42c7-8b1a-b2d2fd26a9d6"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF1354&ssn=0&y=2017"
source_hash: "60a91e4fc1d79880583bd05b03da7e1c0c63db3ee80cd4fe384592e4d4cf67fd"
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 1354 (2017-2018) — Police and firefighters civil service commissions and department employees provisions modifications

## 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=SF1354&version=1&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF1354&version=0&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)

## Votes

- S.F. NO. 1354 — **119–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Latz — primary (person)
- Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Youakim — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-23** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2017-02-23** Referred to Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to State Government Finance and Policy and Elections `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-13** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-16** Special Order
- **2017-05-16** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2017-05-22** Returned from House
- **2017-05-26** Presentment date 05/26/17
- **2017-05-30** Governor's action Approval 5/30/17 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-17** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2017-05-17** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF1640
- **2017-05-18** Bills identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2017-05-18** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-20** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, May 22nd, 2017
- **2017-05-22** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2017-05-22** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2017-05-26** Presented to Governor 5/26/2017 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-30** Governor approval 5/30/2017 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-30** Secretary of State, Filed 5/30/2017

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e77410b-b940-42c7-8b1a-b2d2fd26a9d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).