---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher education finance and policy bill."
description: "Higher education finance and policy bill."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HF 4252"
citation: "Minnesota HF 4252 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Education-Higher", "Native Americans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wolgamott"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 40
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2026-03-12"
last_action: "2026-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b567ee60-b1bf-4188-9085-038b714ef6c2"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/4252?list=open&body=House"
source_hash: "cf9d8565431e3202fc6127273b246c8bd3a3f26f565eb79cf8b67e403f6723bf"
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 4252 (2025-2026) — Higher education finance and policy bill.

## 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/4252/versions/1/)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/4252/versions/ue/1/)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/4252/versions/2/)
4. **2nd Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/4252/versions/ue/2/)
5. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/4252/versions/3/)
6. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/4252/versions/4/)
7. **CCR-HF4252** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/4252/versions/ccr/0/)
8. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/HF/4252/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Amendment — **74–58** (pass) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by Conference — **101–33** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **67–67** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **67–67** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **65–67** (fail) · lower
- Amendment to Rarick Amendment — **67–67** (fail) · lower
- Passage, as amended — **82–52** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wolgamott — primary (person)
- Fateh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-12** Introduction and first reading, referred to Higher Education Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-22** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-28** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-28** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-30** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, May 4, 2026
- **2026-05-04** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-05-04** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2026-05-04** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2026-05-12** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2026-05-12** House refuses to concur, conference committee of 4 requested
- **2026-05-12** House conferees Wolgamott, Coulter, Robbins, and Rarick
- **2026-05-13** Senate accedes, conference committee of 4 be appointed
- **2026-05-13** Senate conferees Fateh, Oumou Verbeten, Putnam, and Duckworth
- **2026-05-16** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2026-05-16** Motion to adopt conference committee report
- **2026-05-16** House adopted conference committee report
- **2026-05-16** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2026-05-16** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2026-05-16** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **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
- **2026-05-05** Received from House `introduction`
- **2026-05-05** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2026-05-05** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-05-07** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-05-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-05-11** Special Order: Amended
- **2026-05-11** Third reading Passed as amended `passage`
- **2026-05-13** House not concur, conference committee requested
- **2026-05-13** House conferees Wolgamott; Coulter; Robbins; Rarick
- **2026-05-13** Senate accedes, CC be appointed
- **2026-05-13** Senate conferees Fateh; Oumou Verbeten; Putnam; Duckworth
- **2026-05-16** House adopted HCC report and repassed bill
- **2026-05-16** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2026-05-16** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2026-05-16** Third Reading Repassed
- **2026-05-20** Presentment date 05/20/26
- **2026-05-27** Secretary of State Chapter 116 05/27/26
- **2026-05-28** Effective date 05/28/2026

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b567ee60-b1bf-4188-9085-038b714ef6c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).