---
type: "Bill"
title: "Single-metered utility service in residential buildings regulations and provisions modifications"
description: "Single-metered utility service in residential buildings regulations and provisions modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "SF 4579"
citation: "Minnesota SF 4579 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commerce and Commerce Department", "Consumer Protection", "Energy", "Landlords and Tenants", "Public Utilities and Public Utilities Commission"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dibble"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-04"
last_action: "2025-01-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9273450a-c8bb-4101-b399-0818f0c61e2c"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF4579&ssn=0&y=2024"
source_hash: "443b133deb64a13988852cee6a44b95b04cff261505181429986cacd4ab773e8"
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 SF 4579 (2023-2024) — Single-metered utility service in residential buildings regulations and provisions modifications

## 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=SF4579&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF4579&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF4579&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)
4. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF4579&version=3&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)
5. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF4579&version=4&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)
6. **CCR-SF4579** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF4579&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0&type=ccr)
7. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF4579&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage, as amended — **82–44** (pass) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by Conference — **125–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dibble — primary (person)
- Feist — cosponsor (person)
- Gomez — cosponsor (person)
- Hemmingsen-Jaeger — cosponsor (person)
- Hollins — cosponsor (person)
- Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Oumou Verbeten — cosponsor (person)
- Pappas — cosponsor (person)
- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
- Westlin — cosponsor (person)
- Youakim — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-04-11** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2024-04-11** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF4558
- **2024-04-15** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2024-04-15** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-04-18** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- **2024-04-24** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-24** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2024-04-24** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2024-04-29** Senate refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2024-04-29** Senate conferees Dibble; Port; Weber
- **2024-04-29** House accedes, conference committee of 3 to be appointed
- **2024-04-29** House conferees Hollins, Feist, Niska
- **2024-05-15** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2024-05-15** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2024-05-15** House adopted conference committee report
- **2024-05-15** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2024-05-16** Presented to Governor 05/16/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-17** Governor approval 05/17/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Secretary of State, Filed 05/17/2024
- **2024-03-04** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13** Author added Mitchell
- **2024-03-14** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Judiciary and Public Safety `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** Authors added Oumou Verbeten; Westlin
- **2024-04-02** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-02** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-04-11** Special Order: Amended
- **2024-04-11** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-04-29** Returned from House with amendment
- **2024-04-29** Senate not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2024-04-29** Senate conferees Dibble; Port; Weber
- **2024-04-30** House conferees Hollins; Feist; Niska
- **2024-05-13** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2024-05-13** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2024-05-13** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-05-17** House adopted SCC report and repassed bill
- **2024-05-16** Presentment date 05/16/24
- **2024-05-17** Governor's action Approval 05/17/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-17** Secretary of State Chapter 107 05/17/24
- **2025-01-01** Effective date 01/01/2025

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9273450a-c8bb-4101-b399-0818f0c61e2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).