---
type: "Bill"
title: "Minnesota African American Family Preservation Act"
description: "Minnesota African American Family Preservation Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "SF 716"
citation: "Minnesota SF 716 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children and Families", "Human Services and Human Services Department", "Popular Names"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Champion"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 43
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-25"
last_action: "2024-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07942e8c-29f2-4b38-a330-3d1ad8be3e97"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0716&ssn=0&y=2023"
source_hash: "578b922148ebca7c8e8822690d63b517cb6524818b2afc7cfbc5adfc37c046cf"
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 716 (2023-2024) — Minnesota African American Family Preservation Act

## 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=SF716&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF716&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=SF716&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
4. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF716&version=3&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
5. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF716&version=4&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
6. **5th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF716&version=5&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
7. **CCR-SF0716** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF716&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0&type=ccr)
8. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF716&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Repassage, as amended by Conference — **117–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage, as amended — **120–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Champion — primary (person)
- Abeler — cosponsor (person)
- Agbaje — cosponsor (person)
- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
- Edelson — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Frazier — cosponsor (person)
- Hassan — cosponsor (person)
- Hollins — cosponsor (person)
- Hudson — cosponsor (person)
- Hussein — cosponsor (person)
- Kozlowski — cosponsor (person)
- Kunesh — cosponsor (person)
- Maye Quade — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Noor — cosponsor (person)
- Pérez-Vega — cosponsor (person)
- Reyer — cosponsor (person)
- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- Sencer-Mura — cosponsor (person)
- Vang — cosponsor (person)
- Xiong — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-09** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2024-05-09** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF912
- **2024-05-13** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2024-05-13** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-13** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- **2024-05-15** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-05-15** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2024-05-17** Senate refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2024-05-17** Senate conferees Champion; Oumou Verbeten; Abeler
- **2024-05-17** House accedes, conference committee of 3 to be appointed
- **2024-05-17** House conferees Agbaje; Hudson; Hollins
- **2024-05-18** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2024-05-18** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2024-05-18** House adopted conference committee report
- **2024-05-18** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2024-05-18** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2024-05-18** Presented to Governor 05/18/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-21** Governor approval 05/21/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Secretary of State, Filed 05/21/2024
- **2023-01-25** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2023-01-25** Referred to Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Author added Kunesh
- **2024-02-12** Author added Murphy
- **2024-02-19** Author added Maye Quade
- **2024-03-07** Author added Abeler
- **2024-03-18** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Judiciary and Public Safety `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Finance `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-07** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-05-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-05-09** Special Order: Amended
- **2024-05-09** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-05-15** Returned from House with amendment
- **2024-05-15** Senate not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2024-05-15** Senate conferees Champion; Oumou Verbeten; Abeler
- **2024-05-17** House conferees Agbaje; Hudson; Hollins
- **2024-05-17** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2024-05-17** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2024-05-17** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-05-19** House adopted SCC report and repassed bill
- **2024-05-18** Presentment date 05/18/24
- **2024-05-21** Governor's action Approval 05/21/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Secretary of State Chapter 117 05/21/24

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07942e8c-29f2-4b38-a330-3d1ad8be3e97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).