---
type: "Bill"
title: "Omnibus higher education appropriations and policy provisions"
description: "Omnibus higher education appropriations and policy provisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "SF 2415"
citation: "Minnesota SF 2415 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations-Omnibus Bills", "Education-Higher", "Government-State", "Minnesota State Colleges and Universities", "Office of Higher Education", "Omnibus Bills", "University of Minnesota"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson, P."]
version_count: 7
action_count: 42
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-03-13"
last_action: "2019-05-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b6f6b76-27d8-4ea5-af76-09d161a7b59a"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF2415&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "d6ae25cbbdce79e91b32d468d696e0ba5d7afba8fa20dad1e0647a0297f36783"
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 2415 (2019-2020) — Omnibus higher education appropriations and policy provisions

## 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=SF2415&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=SF2415&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=SF2415&version=2&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
4. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF2415&version=3&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
5. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF2415&version=4&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
6. **CCR-SF2415** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF2415&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0&type=ccr)
7. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF2415&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Amendment — **58–69** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **58–70** (fail) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by Conference — **84–49** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **59–69** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **54–69** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **58–71** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **53–75** (fail) · lower
- Passage, as amended — **72–57** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderson, P. — primary (person)
- Bernardy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-13** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2019-03-13** Referred to Higher Education Finance and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Finance `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-23** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-24** Special Order: Amended
- **2019-04-24** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-30** Returned from House with amendment
- **2019-04-30** Senate not concur, conference committee of 5 requested
- **2019-05-01** Senate conferees Anderson, P.; Draheim; Jensen; Relph; Clausen
- **2019-05-01** House conferees Bernardy; Pryor; Lien; Klevorn; Nornes
- **2019-05-20** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2019-05-20** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2019-05-20** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2019-05-20** House adopted SCC report and repassed bill
- **2019-05-22** Presentment date 05/22/2019
- **2019-05-22** Governor's action Approval 05/22/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-22** Secretary of State Chapter 64 05/22/2019
- **2019-04-24** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-24** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF2544
- **2019-04-25** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2019-04-25** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-25** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, April 29, 2019
- **2019-04-29** Motion to lay on the table
- **2019-04-29** Motion prevailed
- **2019-04-30** Motion to take from table
- **2019-04-30** Motion prevailed
- **2019-04-30** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-30** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2019-04-30** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2019-05-01** Senate refuses to concur, conference committee of 5 requested
- **2019-05-01** Senate conferees Anderson, P.; Draheim; Jensen; Relph; Clausen
- **2019-05-01** House accedes, conference committee of 5 to be appointed
- **2019-05-01** House conferees Bernardy, Pryor, Lien, Klevorn, Nornes
- **2019-05-20** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2019-05-20** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2019-05-20** House adopted conference committee report
- **2019-05-20** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2019-05-20** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2019-05-22** Presented to Governor 05/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-22** Governor approval 05/22/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-22** Secretary of State, Filed 05/22/19

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3b6f6b76-27d8-4ea5-af76-09d161a7b59a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).