---
type: "Bill"
title: "Snow day relief bill; calculation of days and hours of instruction for students affected by snow days during the 2018-2019 school year modification"
description: "Snow day relief bill; calculation of days and hours of instruction for students affected by snow days during the 2018-2019 school year modification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "SF 1743"
citation: "Minnesota SF 1743 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education and Education Department", "Education-Pre-Kindergarten-12", "Popular Names"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-25"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3624fed3-ead9-4005-bf7c-0ee1652f5d28"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF1743&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "a87daca0cc8a36b22115ecf01f9bcea93ddd90e9797ac9cdca23d6ce1bd94b39"
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 1743 (2019-2020) — Snow day relief bill; calculation of days and hours of instruction for students affected by snow days during the 2018-2019 school year modification

## 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=SF1743&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=SF1743&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=SF1743&version=2&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
4. **CCR-SF1743** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF1743&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0&type=ccr)
5. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF1743&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage, as amended — **105–21** (pass) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by Conference — **115–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nelson — primary (person)
- Anderson, B. — cosponsor (person)
- Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
- Bierman — cosponsor (person)
- Christensen — cosponsor (person)
- Davnie — cosponsor (person)
- Erickson — cosponsor (person)
- Housley — cosponsor (person)
- Huot — cosponsor (person)
- Jurgens — cosponsor (person)
- Relph — cosponsor (person)
- Rest — cosponsor (person)
- Youakim — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-25** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** Referred to E-12 Finance and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Authors added Rest; Relph; Housley
- **2019-03-04** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** Special Order: Amended
- **2019-03-07** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-20** Returned from House with amendment
- **2019-03-20** Senate not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2019-03-21** Senate conferees Nelson; Wiger; Jasinski
- **2019-03-25** House conferees Christensen; Youakim; Urdahl
- **2019-03-28** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2019-03-28** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2019-03-28** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2019-04-01** House adopted SCC report and repassed bill
- **2019-04-01** Presentment date 04/01/2019
- **2019-04-03** Governor's action Approval 04/01/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-03** Secretary of State Chapter 5 04/01/2019
- **2019-04-02** Effective date 04/02/19
- **2019-03-11** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2019-03-11** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF1982
- **2019-03-13** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2019-03-13** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-14** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, March 18, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-18** Point of order raised, ruled well taken
- **2019-03-18** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2019-03-18** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2019-03-21** Senate refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2019-03-21** Senate conferees Nelson, Wiger, Jasinski
- **2019-03-21** House accedes, conference committee of 3 to be appointed
- **2019-03-21** House conferees Christensen, Youakim, Urdahl
- **2019-03-28** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2019-03-28** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2019-03-28** House adopted conference committee report
- **2019-03-28** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2019-03-28** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2019-04-01** Presented to Governor 04/01/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-01** Governor approval 04/01/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-01** Secretary of State, Filed 04/01/19
- **2019-04-02** Effective date 04/02/19

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3624fed3-ead9-4005-bf7c-0ee1652f5d28`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).