---
type: "Bill"
title: "Kayla's HOPE Act establishment"
description: "Kayla's HOPE Act establishment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SF 2971"
citation: "Minnesota SF 2971 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health and Health Department", "Highways", "Roads", "and Bridges", "Transportation and Transportation Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dibble"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-03-24"
last_action: "2026-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c683777b-c22e-49e5-9518-7a50e4cae8c1"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/2971?list=open&body=Senate"
source_hash: "a4b1b90c690b920bbd3708108ce82c704f7b4b159c0c0ae6dadc8fb9e941aa74"
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 SF 2971 (2025-2026) — Kayla's HOPE Act establishment

## 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/94/2025/0/SF/2971/versions/1/)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/2971/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dibble — primary (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson Stewart — cosponsor (person)
- Kraft — cosponsor (person)
- Olson — cosponsor (person)
- Rehrauer — cosponsor (person)
- Virnig — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-04-23** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2026-04-23** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF3169
- **2026-04-27** Bills identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2026-04-27** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-28** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day 04/30/26
- **2026-04-30** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-04-30** Bill was passed `passage`
- **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
- **2025-03-24** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2025-03-24** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Author added Coleman
- **2025-04-02** Author added Johnson Stewart
- **2026-04-07** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-22** Special Order
- **2026-04-22** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-05-04** Returned from House
- **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 77 05/07/26
- **2026-05-08** Effective date 05/08/2026

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c683777b-c22e-49e5-9518-7a50e4cae8c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).