---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor trafficking definitions amended, penalties enhanced, conforming changes made relating to statewide human trafficking assessment, and Sentence Guidelines Commission required to consider assigning a severity level ranking to the labor trafficking crime."
description: "Labor trafficking definitions amended, penalties enhanced, conforming changes made relating to statewide human trafficking assessment, and Sentence Guidelines Commission required to consider assigning a severity level ranking to the labor trafficking crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 42"
citation: "Minnesota HF 42 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Criminals-Sexual Offenses", "Public Safety Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Feist"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-04"
last_action: "2023-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da886826-11b5-4926-921c-95e0ef438282"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0042&ssn=0&y=2023"
source_hash: "8cd6e78eb46c2dff496e1b349152a080c446374d63b2b28e27f1613feee7dcb6"
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 42 (2023-2024) — Labor trafficking definitions amended, penalties enhanced, conforming changes made relating to statewide human trafficking assessment, and Sentence Guidelines Commission required to consider assigning a severity level ranking to the labor trafficking crime.

## 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=HF42&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=HF42&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
3. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF42&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **127–0** (pass) · lower
- Shall the decision of Speaker pro tempore Wolgamott stand as the judgment of the House? — **70–57** (pass) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by the Senate — **128–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Feist — primary (person)
- Becker-Finn — cosponsor (person)
- Berg — cosponsor (person)
- Curran — cosponsor (person)
- Huot — cosponsor (person)
- Oumou Verbeten — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-04** Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-09** Author added Curran
- **2023-01-17** Author added Becker-Finn
- **2023-01-19** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-23** Author added Huot
- **2023-01-25** Author added Berg
- **2023-02-15** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, February 16, 2023
- **2023-02-16** Amendments offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-02-16** Point of order raised, ruled well taken
- **2023-02-16** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2023-04-12** House rule 1.15 (c), message requesting concurrence received
- **2023-04-17** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2023-04-17** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2023-04-17** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2023-04-17** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2023-04-24** Presented to Governor 04/24/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-25** Governor approval 04/25/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-25** Secretary of State, Filed 04/25/2023
- **2023-02-20** Received from House `introduction`
- **2023-02-20** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2023-02-20** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF133 `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF133
- **2023-02-21** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-12** Special Order
- **2023-04-12** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Presentment date 04/24/23
- **2023-04-25** Governor's action Approval 04/25/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-25** Secretary of State Chapter 27 04/25/23
- **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/da886826-11b5-4926-921c-95e0ef438282`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).