---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agriculture and broadband development policy and finance bill."
description: "Agriculture and broadband development policy and finance bill."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HF 2446"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2446 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture and Agriculture Department", "State Boards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson, P. H."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/905479d9-1243-4925-b8cc-7954e13a4014"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/2446?list=open&body=House"
source_hash: "ff11ded297984883d6bc40d96896fc752c8cca704add2543a848c41a8caa787f"
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 2446 (2025-2026) — Agriculture and broadband development policy and finance bill.

## 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/94/2025/0/HF/2446/versions/1/)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/2446/versions/ue/1/)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/2446/versions/2/)
4. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/2446/versions/3/)
5. **CCR-HF2446** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/2446/versions/ccr/0/)
6. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/2446/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **130–3** (pass) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by Conference — **130–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderson, P. H. — primary (person)
- Hansen, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Putnam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17** Introduction and first reading, referred to Agriculture Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-22** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-22** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, April 24, 2025
- **2025-04-24** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-24** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2025-05-01** House refuses to concur, conference committee of 6 requested
- **2025-05-05** House conferees Anderson, P.H.; Hansen, R; Harder; Smith; Burkel; Gottfried
- **2025-05-06** Senate accedes, conference committee of 3 be appointed
- **2025-05-06** Senate conferees Putnam; Kupec; Westrom
- **2025-05-18** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2025-05-18** House adopted conference committee report
- **2025-05-18** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2025-05-18** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2025-05-19** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2025-05-20** Presented to Governor 05/20/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-23** Governor approval 05/23/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-23** Secretary of State, Filed 05/23/2025
- **2025-04-25** Received from House `introduction`
- **2025-04-25** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2025-04-25** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2458, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF2458
- **2025-04-28** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Special Order: Amended
- **2025-04-30** Third reading Passed as amended `passage`
- **2025-05-06** House not concur, conference committee requested
- **2025-05-06** House conferees Anderson, P.H.; Hansen, R; Harder; Smith; Burkel; Gottfried
- **2025-05-06** Senate accedes, CC of 3 be appointed
- **2025-05-06** Senate conferees Putnam; Kupec; Westrom
- **2025-05-18** House adopted HCC report and repassed bill
- **2025-05-18** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2025-05-18** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2025-05-18** Third Reading Repassed
- **2025-05-20** Presentment date 05/20/25
- **2025-05-23** Governor's action Approval 05/23/25 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-23** Secretary of State Chapter 34 05/23/25

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/905479d9-1243-4925-b8cc-7954e13a4014`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).