---
type: "Bill"
title: "Watershed districts, watershed management organizations, and towns permission to self-insure for certain employee health benefits"
description: "Watershed districts, watershed management organizations, and towns permission to self-insure for certain employee health benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SF 3887"
citation: "Minnesota SF 3887 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commerce and Commerce Department", "Government-Local", "Insurance-Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pratt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-02-26"
last_action: "2026-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06e36a58-8dff-46c8-9c72-93cc7bd528ff"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/SF/3887?list=open&body=Senate"
source_hash: "3649b2a973a640c21654ab3e8783e493b6db1d656deeadcf32ae8ec34de97b64"
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 3887 (2025-2026) — Watershed districts, watershed management organizations, and towns permission to self-insure for certain employee health benefits

## 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/3887/versions/1/)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/SF/3887/versions/ue/1/)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/SF/3887/versions/2/)
4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/SF/3887/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage, as amended — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pratt — primary (person)
- Bakeberg — cosponsor (person)
- Cha — cosponsor (person)
- Klein — cosponsor (person)
- McDonald — cosponsor (person)
- Tabke — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-23** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2026-03-23** Senate file first reading, referred to Elections Finance and Government Operations
- **2026-04-07** Motion to recall
- **2026-04-07** Motion prevailed
- **2026-04-07** Referred to Chief Clerk for comparison with HF3571 `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-09** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2026-04-09** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-23** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day 04/27/2026
- **2026-04-27** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-04-27** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2026-04-27** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2026-05-04** Presented to Governor 05/04/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-05** Governor approval 05/05/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-05** Secretary of State, Filed 05/05/2026
- **2026-02-26** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2026-02-26** Referred to State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-05** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-05** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-18** Special Order
- **2026-03-18** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-04-28** Returned from House with amendment
- **2026-04-28** Senate concurred and repassed bill
- **2026-04-28** Third reading Passed as amended `passage`
- **2026-05-04** Presentment date 05/04/2026
- **2026-05-05** Governor's action Approval 05/05/26 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-05** Secretary of State Chapter 66 05/05/26
- **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/06e36a58-8dff-46c8-9c72-93cc7bd528ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).