---
type: "Bill"
title: "Notice requirements for water discharges modified."
description: "Notice requirements for water discharges modified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HF 4224"
citation: "Minnesota HF 4224 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment", "Water", "Water Resources", "and Waterways"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fischer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-03-12"
last_action: "2026-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85309bcd-9b45-4e61-9aa0-68e4ca56acf1"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/4224?list=open&body=House"
source_hash: "103023d64877a9f215e3e22849891a51b54d4594a234a2b21279bf86134f8052"
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 4224 (2025-2026) — Notice requirements for water discharges modified.

## 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/4224/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fischer — primary (person)
- Kunesh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-12** Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-23** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-23** 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`
- **2026-05-04** Returned from Senate
- **2026-05-06** Presented to Governor 05/06/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-07** Governor approval 05/07/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-07** Secretary of State, Filed 05/07/2026
- **2026-04-28** Received from House `introduction`
- **2026-04-28** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2026-04-28** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF4525, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-29** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF4525
- **2026-04-29** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-30** Special Order
- **2026-04-30** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-05-06** Presentment date 05/06/26
- **2026-05-07** Governor's action Approval 05/07/26 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-07** Secretary of State Chapter 79 05/07/26
- **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/85309bcd-9b45-4e61-9aa0-68e4ca56acf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).