---
type: "Bill"
title: "COVID-19; school closures and other amendments provided for due to COVID-19; calculation of school aids formulas due to COVID-19 clarified; forecast adjustments made to funding for general education, education excellence, teachers, special education, facilities, fund transfers and accounting, nutrition and libraries, early childhood, and community education and lifelong learning; responsibilities clarified for construction and skills trades career counseling services; operation referendum calculation clarified; and base appropriations adjusted."
description: "COVID-19; school closures and other amendments provided for due to COVID-19; calculation of school aids formulas due to COVID-19 clarified; forecast adjustments made to funding for general education, education excellence, teachers, special education, facilities, fund transfers and accounting, nutrition and libraries, early childhood, and community education and lifelong learning; responsibilities clarified for construction and skills trades career counseling services; operation referendum calculation clarified; and base appropriations adjusted."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HF 4415"
citation: "Minnesota HF 4415 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Education and Education Department", "Health and Health Department", "Teachers", "Wages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davnie"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-03-11"
last_action: "2020-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b70d918f-4247-40ae-9002-ef1ddd913d1b"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF4415&ssn=0&y=2020"
source_hash: "428380b484b7e525c7a30b216caa0e2bfacee44ffe213705d6b0544018140493"
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 4415 (2019-2020) — COVID-19; school closures and other amendments provided for due to COVID-19; calculation of school aids formulas due to COVID-19 clarified; forecast adjustments made to funding for general education, education excellence, teachers, special education, facilities, fund transfers and accounting, nutrition and libraries, early childhood, and community education and lifelong learning; responsibilities clarified for construction and skills trades career counseling services; operation referendum calculation clarified; and base appropriations adjusted.

## 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=HF4415&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2020&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF4415&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2020&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF4415&version=2&session=ls91&session_year=2020&session_number=0)
4. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF4415&version=3&session=ls91&session_year=2020&session_number=0)
5. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF4415&version=4&session=ls91&session_year=2020&session_number=0)
6. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF4415&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2020&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **83–49** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **58–75** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Davnie — primary (person)
- Acomb — cosponsor (person)
- Bahner — cosponsor (person)
- Becker-Finn — cosponsor (person)
- Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
- Bierman — cosponsor (person)
- Brand — cosponsor (person)
- Cantrell — cosponsor (person)
- Christensen — cosponsor (person)
- Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Gomez — cosponsor (person)
- Hassan — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Kotyza-Witthuhn — cosponsor (person)
- Lippert — cosponsor (person)
- Masin — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Noor — cosponsor (person)
- Olson — cosponsor (person)
- Winkler — cosponsor (person)
- Wolgamott — cosponsor (person)
- Youakim — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-11** Introduction and first reading, referred to Education Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** Authors added Christensen, Bierman, Freiberg, and Wolgamott
- **2020-03-26** Authors added Cantrell, Jordan, Lippert, Kotyza-Witthuhn
- **2020-04-07** Author added Hassan, Gomez
- **2020-04-14** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Education Finance Division `committee-passage`
- **2020-04-14** Joint rule 2.03 waived
- **2020-04-14** Authors added Bahner, Acomb
- **2020-04-28** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2020-04-28** Author added Becker-Finn
- **2020-04-30** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-04-30** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2020-04-30** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, May 4, 2020
- **2020-05-04** Amendments offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-04** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2020-05-04** Motion to lay on the table
- **2020-05-04** Motion did not prevail
- **2020-05-04** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2020-05-04** Author added Brand and Bernardy
- **2020-05-05** Authors added Noor, Masin, Murphy
- **2020-05-17** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2020-05-17** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2020-05-17** Motion prevailed
- **2020-05-17** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2020-05-17** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2020-05-18** Presented to Governor 05/18/2020 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-27** Governor approval 05/27/2020 `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-27** Secretary of State, Filed 05/27/2020
- **2020-05-06** Received from House `introduction`
- **2020-05-06** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2020-05-06** Laid on table
- **2020-05-07** Taken from table
- **2020-05-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2020-05-07** Laid on table
- **2020-05-16** Taken from table
- **2020-05-16** Special Order: Amended
- **2020-05-16** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-05-17** House concurred and repassed bill
- **2020-05-18** Presentment date 05/18/2020
- **2020-05-27** Governor's action Approval 05/27/2020 `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-27** Secretary of State Chapter 116 05/27/2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b70d918f-4247-40ae-9002-ef1ddd913d1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).