---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax-forfeited lands settlement account established, money transferred, reports required, and money appropriated."
description: "Tax-forfeited lands settlement account established, money transferred, reports required, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 5246"
citation: "Minnesota HF 5246 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Lands-Tax-forfeited"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lislegard"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-04-02"
last_action: "2024-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/109e9415-bef0-49bc-aa18-4b1b4c9fa0ca"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF5246&ssn=0&y=2024"
source_hash: "974b0d1f8caca84c37f3425faa490eb24f9dcabf4d16816bddd6bf9b0252dbcb"
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 5246 (2023-2024) — Tax-forfeited lands settlement account established, money transferred, reports 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=HF5246&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)
2. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF5246&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)
3. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF5246&version=3&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)
4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF5246&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage, as amended — **127–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lislegard — primary (person)
- Brand — cosponsor (person)
- Davids — cosponsor (person)
- Feist — cosponsor (person)
- Gomez — cosponsor (person)
- Hauschild — cosponsor (person)
- Skraba — cosponsor (person)
- Zeleznikar — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-02** Introduction and first reading, referred to Taxes `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** Author added Davids
- **2024-04-24** Author added Skraba
- **2024-04-29** Author added Gomez
- **2024-04-30** Author added Brand
- **2024-05-02** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-07** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-07** Author added Feist
- **2024-05-07** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, May 9, 2024
- **2024-05-09** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-05-09** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2024-05-09** Author added Zeleznikar
- **2024-05-17** Returned from Senate
- **2024-05-17** Presented to Governor 05/17/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-17** Governor approval 05/17/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Secretary of State, Filed 05/17/2024
- **2024-05-09** Received from House `introduction`
- **2024-05-09** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2024-05-09** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF4936, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-13** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF4936
- **2024-05-13** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-17** Special Order: Rule 45 amendment stricken
- **2024-05-17** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-05-17** Presentment date 05/17/24
- **2024-05-18** Governor's action Approval 05/18/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Secretary of State Chapter 113 05/17/24
- **2024-05-18** Effective date 05/18/2024

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/109e9415-bef0-49bc-aa18-4b1b4c9fa0ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).