---
type: "Bill"
title: "Purple Heart City and Purple Heart County designation authorization"
description: "Purple Heart City and Purple Heart County designation authorization"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SF 3262"
citation: "Minnesota SF 3262 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Government-Local", "Veterans and Veterans Affairs Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-03-12"
last_action: "2018-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3b2ec7f-a0ea-4677-8b25-3c5a7adc333b"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF3262&ssn=0&y=2018"
source_hash: "610841d658ea92f25c22ce9feaf21945ae3202f69f9eb5ca6e8bd98456bc1371"
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 3262 (2017-2018) — Purple Heart City and Purple Heart County designation authorization

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF3262&version=0&session=ls90&session_year=2018&session_number=0)

## Votes

- S.F. NO. 3262 — **122–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hall — primary (person)
- Bliss — cosponsor (person)
- Dettmer — cosponsor (person)
- Housley — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-12** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2018-03-12** Referred to Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Comm report: To pass and re-referred to Veterans and Military Affairs Finance and Policy `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-22** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-26** Author added Housley
- **2018-05-01** Special Order
- **2018-05-01** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2018-05-03** Author added Nelson
- **2018-05-10** Returned from House
- **2018-05-10** Presentment date 05/10/18
- **2018-05-15** Governor's action Approval 05/14/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-02** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2018-05-02** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF3477
- **2018-05-03** Bills identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2018-05-03** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2018-05-07** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Wednesday, May 09, 2018
- **2018-05-09** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2018-05-09** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2018-05-10** Presented to Governor 05/10/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-14** Governor approval 05/14/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-05-14** Secretary of State, Filed 05/14/18

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3b2ec7f-a0ea-4677-8b25-3c5a7adc333b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).