---
type: "Bill"
title: "Energy grant programs established to enhance competitiveness of Minnesota entities in obtaining federal funding, account created, report required, and money appropriated."
description: "Energy grant programs established to enhance competitiveness of Minnesota entities in obtaining federal funding, account created, report required, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 1656"
citation: "Minnesota HF 1656 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acomb"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/033ea9f4-b4e3-4d60-8584-a35f0392afa4"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF1656&ssn=0&y=2023"
source_hash: "3e41ddfc14c827a0c88f40500d8eac3deb1e7557c8c72943ffa75776f99cd46a"
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 1656 (2023-2024) — Energy grant programs established to enhance competitiveness of Minnesota entities in obtaining federal funding, account created, report required, and money appropriated.

## 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=HF1656&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
2. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1656&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
3. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1656&version=3&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1656&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Amendment to Mekeland Amendment — **69–62** (pass) · lower
- Passage, as amended — **83–47** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **61–69** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Acomb — primary (person)
- Berg — cosponsor (person)
- Bierman — cosponsor (person)
- Brand — cosponsor (person)
- Carroll — cosponsor (person)
- Curran — cosponsor (person)
- Elkins — cosponsor (person)
- Finke — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick — cosponsor (person)
- Frentz — cosponsor (person)
- Greenman — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Hemmingsen-Jaeger — cosponsor (person)
- Her — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hollins — cosponsor (person)
- Hornstein — cosponsor (person)
- Hortman — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Klevorn — cosponsor (person)
- Koegel — cosponsor (person)
- Kozlowski — cosponsor (person)
- Kraft — cosponsor (person)
- Lee, F. — cosponsor (person)
- Lillie — cosponsor (person)
- Lislegard — cosponsor (person)
- Long — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson, M. — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Rehm — cosponsor (person)
- Reyer — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
- Tabke — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-13** Introduction and first reading, referred to Climate and Energy Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-16** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-16** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-22** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 23, 2023
- **2023-03-23** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-23** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2023-03-23** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-04-12** Returned from Senate
- **2023-04-17** Presented to Governor 04/17/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-18** Governor approval 04/18/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-18** Secretary of State, Filed 04/18/2023
- **2023-03-27** Received from House `introduction`
- **2023-03-27** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2023-03-27** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF1622, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF1622
- **2023-03-30** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Special Order: Rule 45 amendment stricken
- **2023-04-11** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Presentment date 04/17/23
- **2023-04-18** Governor's action Approval 04/18/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-18** Secretary of State Chapter 24 04/18/23
- **2023-04-19** Effective date 04/19/23

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/033ea9f4-b4e3-4d60-8584-a35f0392afa4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).