---
type: "Bill"
title: "State and local governments impacted by new information technology business software user acceptance testing involvement requirement"
description: "State and local governments impacted by new information technology business software user acceptance testing involvement requirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "SF 316"
citation: "Minnesota SF 316 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Government-Local", "Government-State", "Telecommunications", "Computers", "and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howe"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-22"
last_action: "2019-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3995068d-37c2-4172-8a0e-0c08d09b795e"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0316&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "a2773ffa8ae6534e363c33c82dd9868ef60e256df6099113d7ce0d666c6a7ebf"
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 316 (2019-2020) — State and local governments impacted by new information technology business software user acceptance testing involvement requirement

## 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=SF316&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
2. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF316&version=2&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
3. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF316&version=3&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
4. **CCR-SF0316** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF316&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=SF316&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage, as amended — **128–0** (pass) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by Conference — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Howe — primary (person)
- Bahner — cosponsor (person)
- Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Kiffmeyer — cosponsor (person)
- Koran — cosponsor (person)
- Masin — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson, M. — cosponsor (person)
- Rest — cosponsor (person)
- Sauke — cosponsor (person)
- Vogel — cosponsor (person)
- Zerwas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-22** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2019-01-22** Referred to State Government Finance and Policy and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Local Government `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Special Order: Amended
- **2019-05-02** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-15** Returned from House with amendment
- **2019-05-15** Senate not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2019-05-18** Senate conferees Howe; Kiffmeyer; Laine
- **2019-05-20** House conferees Masin; Bahner; Vogel
- **2019-05-20** Conference committee report
- **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 62 05/22/2019
- **2019-08-01** Effective date 08/01/19
- **2019-05-06** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2019-05-06** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF132
- **2019-05-07** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2019-05-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-10** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, May 14, 2019
- **2019-05-14** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-14** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2019-05-14** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2019-05-19** Senate refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2019-05-19** Senate conferees Howe, Kiffmeyer, and Laine.
- **2019-05-19** House accedes, conference committee of 3 to be appointed
- **2019-05-19** House conferees Masin, Bahner, and Vogel.
- **2019-05-20** Conference committee report
- **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
- **2019-05-20** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **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
- **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/3995068d-37c2-4172-8a0e-0c08d09b795e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).