---
type: "Bill"
title: "Licensing boards reporting required, criminal offense of grooming established, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated."
description: "Licensing boards reporting required, criminal offense of grooming established, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HF 3489"
citation: "Minnesota HF 3489 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children and Minors", "Crimes and Criminals-Sexual Offenses", "Education and Education Department", "Students"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bennett"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-19"
last_action: "2026-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/113fd46c-403c-4556-acbb-7ab5718e9f94"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3489?list=open&body=House"
source_hash: "9642b84320b838734b823a364d72d5b722dd7f758e95b00cfdb880a404b68499"
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 3489 (2025-2026) — Licensing boards reporting required, criminal offense of grooming established, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.

## 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/94/2026/0/HF/3489/versions/1/)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3489/versions/ue/1/)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3489/versions/2/)
4. **2nd Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3489/versions/ue/2/)
5. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3489/versions/3/)
6. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3489/versions/4/)
7. **5th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3489/versions/5/)
8. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3489/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **133–0** (pass) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by the Senate — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bennett — primary (person)
- Bakeberg — cosponsor (person)
- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
- Gordon — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Knudsen — cosponsor (person)
- Maye Quade — cosponsor (person)
- Mueller — cosponsor (person)
- Reyer — cosponsor (person)
- Virnig — cosponsor (person)
- Witte — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-19** Introduction and first reading, referred to Education Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-23** Authors added Knudsen and Gordon
- **2026-02-26** Author added Mueller
- **2026-03-05** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Public Safety Finance and Policy `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-16** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Children and Families Finance and Policy `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-18** Author added Witte
- **2026-03-23** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Education Finance `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-23** Author added Virnig
- **2026-03-25** Authors added Clardy and Jordan
- **2026-04-07** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-09** Author added Reyer
- **2026-04-22** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-22** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-23** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day 04/27/2026
- **2026-04-27** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-04-27** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2026-05-16** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2026-05-16** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2026-05-16** Motion prevailed
- **2026-05-16** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2026-05-16** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2026-05-20** Presented to Governor 05/20/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-27** Governor approval 05/27/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-27** Secretary of State, Filed 05/27/2026
- **2026-04-28** Received from House `introduction`
- **2026-04-28** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2026-04-28** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-05-13** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-05-13** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-05-15** Special Order: Amended
- **2026-05-15** Third reading Passed as amended `passage`
- **2026-05-20** Presentment date 05/20/26
- **2026-05-27** Governor's action Approval 05/27/26 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-27** Secretary of State Chapter 108 05/27/26

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/113fd46c-403c-4556-acbb-7ab5718e9f94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).