---
type: "Bill"
title: "2026 recommendations adoption of the Workers' Compensation Advisory Council"
description: "2026 recommendations adoption of the Workers' Compensation Advisory Council"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SF 3720"
citation: "Minnesota SF 3720 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Councils", "Labor", "Employment", "and Labor and Industry Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McEwen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-02-19"
last_action: "2026-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9e73c23-9e86-424a-bc18-b90d50e23c56"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/SF/3720?list=open&body=Senate"
source_hash: "86c3c92cbb48efd89b118d32cb8ac8ef2dde651cd0240b96acbdaf895596e45b"
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 3720 (2025-2026) — 2026 recommendations adoption of the Workers' Compensation Advisory Council

## 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/SF/3720/versions/1/)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/SF/3720/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **132–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McEwen — primary (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Utke — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-05-11** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2026-05-11** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF4598
- **2026-05-12** Bills identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2026-05-12** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-05-13** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, May 14, 2026
- **2026-05-14** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-05-14** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2026-05-15** Presented to Governor 05/15/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-18** Governor approval 05/18/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-18** Secretary of State, Filed 05/18/2026
- **2026-02-19** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2026-02-19** Referred to Labor `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-14** Author added Utke
- **2026-04-20** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Finance `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-04-20** Pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 6, referred to Rules and Administration
- **2026-04-21** Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 Suspended adopt previous committee report
- **2026-05-07** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-05-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-05-11** Special Order
- **2026-05-11** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-05-15** Returned from House
- **2026-05-15** Presentment date 05/15/26
- **2026-05-18** Governor's action Approval 05/18/26 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-18** Secretary of State Chapter 103 05/18/26

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9e73c23-9e86-424a-bc18-b90d50e23c56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).