---
type: "Bill"
title: "Open Meeting Law; interactive television attendance requirements modified."
description: "Open Meeting Law; interactive television attendance requirements modified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HF 281"
citation: "Minnesota HF 281 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature", "Open Meetings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Koegel"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/684ea79a-e68b-4154-968f-af8bf55276c7"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0281&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "105fa7ca2615abb13c7531dd3a7a5c171979e914e8113edf3e653d44080b3309"
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 281 (2019-2020) — Open Meeting Law; interactive television attendance requirements modified.

## 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=HF281&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF281&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF281&version=2&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF281&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Repassage, as amended by the Senate — **131–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **126–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Koegel — primary (person)
- Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
- Her — cosponsor (person)
- Jasinski — cosponsor (person)
- Nash — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** Introduction and first reading, referred to Government Operations `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Author added Nash.
- **2019-02-14** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-14** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-27** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, February 28, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Author added Bernardy
- **2019-03-07** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 7, 2019
- **2019-03-07** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2019-05-15** House rule 1.15 (c), message requesting concurrence received
- **2019-05-16** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2019-05-16** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2019-05-16** Motion prevailed
- **2019-05-16** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2019-05-16** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2019-05-17** Presented to Governor 05/17/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-17** Governor approval 05/17/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-17** Secretary of State, Filed 05/17/19
- **2019-08-01** Effective date 08/01/19
- **2019-03-11** Received from House `introduction`
- **2019-03-11** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2019-03-11** Referred to Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** Comm report: To pass and re-referred to State Government Finance and Policy and Elections `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-01** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-14** Special Order
- **2019-05-14** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-16** House concurred and repassed bill
- **2019-05-17** Presentment date 05/17/2019
- **2019-05-17** Governor's action Approval 05/17/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-20** Secretary of State Chapter 33 05/17/2019
- **2019-08-01** Effective date 08/01/19

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/684ea79a-e68b-4154-968f-af8bf55276c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).