---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food shelf program funding provided, and money appropriated."
description: "Food shelf program funding provided, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 213"
citation: "Minnesota HF 213 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Food and Nutrition", "Human Services and Human Services Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Keeler"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e884ca2d-beea-4549-8975-882b2940bb45"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0213&ssn=0&y=2023"
source_hash: "e4968986171d3099e5fc0b62a394f25ae842665f249c99f7b9057a572eb0a12b"
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 213 (2023-2024) — Food shelf program funding provided, 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=HF213&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF213&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **129–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Keeler — primary (person)
- Agbaje — cosponsor (person)
- Bahner — cosponsor (person)
- Becker-Finn — cosponsor (person)
- Berg — cosponsor (person)
- Brand — cosponsor (person)
- Curran — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Gomez — cosponsor (person)
- Greenman — cosponsor (person)
- Hassan — cosponsor (person)
- Hemmingsen-Jaeger — cosponsor (person)
- Hollins — cosponsor (person)
- Hornstein — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Kotyza-Witthuhn — cosponsor (person)
- Kraft — cosponsor (person)
- Lee, K. — cosponsor (person)
- Lillie — cosponsor (person)
- Maye Quade — cosponsor (person)
- Myers — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson, M. — cosponsor (person)
- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
- Wolgamott — cosponsor (person)
- Xiong — cosponsor (person)
- Youakim — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Introduction and first reading, referred to Children and Families Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Authors added Becker-Finn, Kotyza-Witthuhn, Lillie, Myers, and Xiong
- **2023-01-23** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Authors added Hornstein, Freiberg, and Brand
- **2023-02-01** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-08** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, February 9, 2023
- **2023-02-08** Author added Nelson, M.
- **2023-02-09** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2023-02-09** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-02-09** Author added Hassan
- **2023-02-27** Returned from Senate
- **2023-02-28** Presented to Governor 02/28/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor approval 03/02/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-02** Secretary of State, Filed 03/02/2023
- **2023-02-13** Received from House `introduction`
- **2023-02-13** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2023-02-13** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF71, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF71
- **2023-02-16** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-27** Special Order
- **2023-02-27** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-02-28** Presentment date 02/28/23
- **2023-03-02** Governor's action Approval 03/02/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-02** Secretary of State Chapter 11 03/02/23
- **2023-03-03** Effective date 03/03/2023

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e884ca2d-beea-4549-8975-882b2940bb45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).