---
type: "Bill"
title: "Postsecondary attainment goals, student financial aid, institutional licensure provisions, and institutional grant program policy changes provided."
description: "Postsecondary attainment goals, student financial aid, institutional licensure provisions, and institutional grant program policy changes provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 1126"
citation: "Minnesota HF 1126 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education-Higher", "Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pelowski"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ba50939-7ad2-4810-a4c7-68cdc6be9e07"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF1126&ssn=0&y=2023"
source_hash: "4238d09484296a1292d39756d8d00714f4512a824cc1b19ddec311a2f43fa175"
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 1126 (2023-2024) — Postsecondary attainment goals, student financial aid, institutional licensure provisions, and institutional grant program policy changes provided.

## 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=HF1126&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1126&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1126&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1126&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Repassage, as amended by the Senate — **120–8** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **127–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pelowski — primary (person)
- Fateh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-01** Introduction and first reading, referred to Higher Education Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-08** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Wednesday, April 12, 2023
- **2023-04-12** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2023-05-10** House rule 1.15 (c), message requesting concurrence received
- **2023-05-11** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2023-05-11** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2023-05-11** Motion prevailed
- **2023-05-11** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2023-05-18** Presented to Governor 05/18/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-19** Governor approval 05/19/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-19** Secretary of State, Filed 05/19/2023
- **2023-04-13** Received from House `introduction`
- **2023-04-13** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2023-04-13** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF1011, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-14** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF1011
- **2023-04-14** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-05-10** Special Order: Amended
- **2023-05-10** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Presentment date 05/18/23
- **2023-05-19** Governor's action Approval 05/19/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-19** Secretary of State Chapter 44 05/19/23
- **2023-08-01** Effective date 08/01/2023

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ba50939-7ad2-4810-a4c7-68cdc6be9e07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).