---
type: "Bill"
title: "Follow-up to 2024 children, youth, and families recodification; technical changes made."
description: "Follow-up to 2024 children, youth, and families recodification; technical changes made."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HF 2551"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2551 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children and Minors", "Family", "Human Services and Human Services Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kotyza-Witthuhn"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcad3623-e459-4084-ab4b-b69c9242f25c"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/2551?list=open&body=House"
source_hash: "0f113af065f7dd691dd8cf7ed79ed2dd97daece07cc05e7b12e1048ce4b8b3cb"
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 2551 (2025-2026) — Follow-up to 2024 children, youth, and families recodification; technical changes made.

## 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/2551/versions/1/)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/2551/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **132–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kotyza-Witthuhn — primary (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wiklund — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-20** Introduction and first reading, referred to Children and Families Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Friday, April 25, 2025
- **2025-04-25** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-25** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2025-05-05** Returned from Senate
- **2025-05-13** Presented to Governor 05/13/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-15** Governor approval 05/15/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-15** Secretary of State, Filed 05/15/2025
- **2025-04-28** Received from House `introduction`
- **2025-04-28** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2025-04-28** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2706, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF2706
- **2025-04-29** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-05-05** Special Order
- **2025-05-05** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Presentment date 05/13/25
- **2025-05-15** Governor's action Approval 05/15/25 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-15** Secretary of State Chapter 21 05/15/25
- **2025-08-01** Effective date 08/01/2025

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bcad3623-e459-4084-ab4b-b69c9242f25c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).