---
type: "Bill"
title: "Kratom; legal age to possess kratom established as 21 years of age or older."
description: "Kratom; legal age to possess kratom established as 21 years of age or older."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HF 3453"
citation: "Minnesota HF 3453 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drugs and Medicine", "Public Safety Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanson, J."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 28
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-02-19"
last_action: "2026-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ebf5d9b3-ba5a-44cf-8813-38a32fe363a8"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3453?list=open&body=House"
source_hash: "a28b64212b0997ba32e862bf6d64249013380f22f910b416fe7b9b3deca0054e"
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 3453 (2025-2026) — Kratom; legal age to possess kratom established as 21 years of age or older.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3453/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **127–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hanson, J. — primary (person)
- Bahner — cosponsor (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Duran — cosponsor (person)
- Elkins — cosponsor (person)
- Falconer — cosponsor (person)
- Gillman — cosponsor (person)
- Harder — cosponsor (person)
- Klevorn — cosponsor (person)
- Kraft — cosponsor (person)
- Mann — cosponsor (person)
- Pursell — cosponsor (person)
- Repinski — cosponsor (person)
- Schwartz — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-19** Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-23** Authors added Elkins, Baker, Bahner, Gillman and Falconer
- **2026-03-12** Author added Pursell
- **2026-03-16** Author added Duran
- **2026-03-18** Authors added Repinski and Schwartz
- **2026-03-23** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-23** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-23** Author added Harder
- **2026-04-07** Author added Kraft
- **2026-04-16** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, April 20, 2026
- **2026-04-20** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-04-20** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2026-04-22** Author added Klevorn
- **2026-04-27** Returned from Senate
- **2026-05-04** Presented to Governor 05/04/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-05** Governor approval 05/05/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-05** Secretary of State, Filed 05/05/2026
- **2026-04-21** Received from House `introduction`
- **2026-04-21** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2026-04-21** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF3704, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-22** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF3704
- **2026-04-22** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-23** Special Order
- **2026-04-23** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-05-04** Presentment date 05/04/2026
- **2026-05-05** Governor's action Approval 05/05/26 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-05** Secretary of State Chapter 63 05/05/26
- **2026-08-01** Effective date 08/01/2026

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ebf5d9b3-ba5a-44cf-8813-38a32fe363a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).