---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher education finance and policy bill."
description: "Higher education finance and policy bill."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 2073"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2073 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education-Higher"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pelowski"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-20"
last_action: "2023-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e2d87f1-779c-4485-9489-f0761fde54ec"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2073&ssn=0&y=2023"
source_hash: "56fca78c460195cda7ed9c704e5dbbc1cd6b4b7e9b67fdec578bda68d829568f"
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 2073 (2023-2024) — 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/text.php?number=HF2073&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2073&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2073&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
4. **2nd Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2073&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0&type=ue)
5. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2073&version=3&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
6. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2073&version=4&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
7. **CCR-HF2073** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2073&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0&type=ccr)
8. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2073&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Amendment — **58–69** (fail) · lower
- Passage, as amended — **69–58** (pass) · lower
- REPASSAGE, as amended by Conference — **69–62** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **58–69** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **58–69** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-20** Introduction and first reading, referred to Rules and Legislative Administration `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Higher Education Finance and Policy `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-03** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-04** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-04** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Wednesday, April 12, 2023
- **2023-04-12** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-12** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-04-18** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2023-04-18** House refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2023-04-18** House conferees Pelowski, Wolgamott, O'Neill
- **2023-04-25** Senate accedes, conference committee of 3 be appointed
- **2023-04-25** Senate conferees Fateh; Oumou Verbeten; Putnam
- **2023-05-09** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2023-05-09** House adopted conference committee report
- **2023-05-09** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2023-05-09** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2023-05-10** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2023-05-23** Presented to Governor 05/23/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-24** Governor approval 05/24/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-24** Secretary of State, Filed 05/24/2023
- **2023-04-13** Received from House `introduction`
- **2023-04-13** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2023-04-13** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-17** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-17** Rule 12.10: report of votes in committee
- **2023-04-17** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-18** Special Order: Amended
- **2023-04-18** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-19** House not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2023-04-19** House conferees Pelowski; Wolgamott; O'Neill
- **2023-04-19** Senate accedes, CC of 3 be appointed
- **2023-04-25** Senate conferees Fateh; Oumou Verbeten; Putnam
- **2023-05-10** House adopted HCC report and repassed bill
- **2023-05-10** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2023-05-10** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2023-05-10** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** Presentment date 05/23/23
- **2023-05-24** Governor's action Approval 05/24/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-24** Secretary of State Chapter 41 05/24/23

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e2d87f1-779c-4485-9489-f0761fde54ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).