--- type: "Bill" title: "Community solar garden named for Melissa Hortman." description: "Community solar garden named for Melissa Hortman." jurisdiction: "us/states/mn" legislature: "Minnesota Legislature" session: "2025-2026" identifier: "HF 3556" citation: "Minnesota HF 3556 (2025-2026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Energy", "Popular Names"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Acomb"] version_count: 1 action_count: 24 vote_count: 1 first_action: "2026-02-23" last_action: "2026-04-15" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57ce56d4-5dbf-48e1-bbb5-41dd3216cd1e" source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/3556?list=open&body=House" source_hash: "ed906a59c5f4718e22070134775d491fb142cedcaa4df9dad7d42f53edb582be" 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 3556 (2025-2026) — Community solar garden named for Melissa Hortman. ## 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/3556/versions/0/) ## Votes - Passage — **133–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Acomb — primary (person) - Agbaje — cosponsor (person) - Bahner — cosponsor (person) - Buck — cosponsor (person) - Carroll — cosponsor (person) - Clardy — cosponsor (person) - Elkins — cosponsor (person) - Falconer — cosponsor (person) - Finke — cosponsor (person) - Fischer — cosponsor (person) - Gottfried — cosponsor (person) - Greene — cosponsor (person) - Hansen, R. — cosponsor (person) - Hill — cosponsor (person) - Hoffman — cosponsor (person) - Hollins — cosponsor (person) - Huot — cosponsor (person) - Hussein — cosponsor (person) - Jones — cosponsor (person) - Keeler — cosponsor (person) - Klevorn — cosponsor (person) - Kozlowski — cosponsor (person) - Kraft — cosponsor (person) - Lee, X. — cosponsor (person) - Long — cosponsor (person) - Luger-Nikolai — cosponsor (person) - Mahamoud — cosponsor (person) - Norris — cosponsor (person) - Pursell — cosponsor (person) - Rehm — cosponsor (person) - Rehrauer — cosponsor (person) - Reyer — cosponsor (person) - Smith — cosponsor (person) - Stephenson — cosponsor (person) - Tabke — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2026-02-23** Introduction and first reading, referred to Energy Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee` - **2026-02-25** Authors added Falconer, Rehrauer, and Greene - **2026-03-09** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage` - **2026-03-09** Second reading `reading-2` - **2026-03-12** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 12, 2026 - **2026-03-12** Third reading `reading-3` - **2026-03-12** Bill was passed `passage` - **2026-03-12** Author added Clardy - **2026-03-16** Author added Hussein - **2026-04-09** Returned from Senate - **2026-04-13** Presented to Governor 04/13/2026 `executive-receipt` - **2026-04-14** Governor approval 04/14/2026 `executive-signature` - **2026-04-14** Secretary of State, Filed 04/14/2026 - **2026-03-17** Received from House `introduction` - **2026-03-17** Introduction and first reading `introduction` - **2026-03-17** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF3800, now on General Orders `referral-committee` - **2026-03-18** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF3800 - **2026-03-18** Second reading `reading-2` - **2026-04-09** Special Order - **2026-04-09** Third reading Passed `passage` - **2026-04-13** Presentment date 04/13/26 - **2026-04-14** Governor's action Approval 04/14/26 `executive-signature` - **2026-04-14** Secretary of State Chapter 44 04/14/26 - **2026-04-15** Effective date 04/15/2026 ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57ce56d4-5dbf-48e1-bbb5-41dd3216cd1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).