---
type: "Bill"
title: "Free school lunch and breakfast provided for students, and money appropriated."
description: "Free school lunch and breakfast provided for students, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 5"
citation: "Minnesota HF 5 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education-K-12", "Food and Nutrition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jordan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-04"
last_action: "2023-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eac4e0e0-e6ce-4045-9382-e0c5f9d51af7"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0005&ssn=0&y=2023"
source_hash: "bb67685158c8e50026c04349e913c08fb8e4d95179c1f963efd6943caee8fa85"
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 5 (2023-2024) — Free school lunch and breakfast provided for students, and money appropriated.

## 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=HF5&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=HF5&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=HF5&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF5&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Kresha motion - Refuse to Concur — **56–69** (fail) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by the Senate — **71–54** (pass) · lower
- Amendment to Knudsen Amendment — **60–69** (fail) · lower
- Shall the decision of the Speaker stand as the judgment of the House? — **70–59** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **59–70** (fail) · lower
- Amendment to Knudsen Amendment — **59–70** (fail) · lower
- Passage — **70–58** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jordan — primary (person)
- Acomb — cosponsor (person)
- Becker-Finn — cosponsor (person)
- Berg — cosponsor (person)
- Bierman — cosponsor (person)
- Brand — cosponsor (person)
- Carroll — cosponsor (person)
- Cha — cosponsor (person)
- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
- Coulter — cosponsor (person)
- Curran — cosponsor (person)
- Feist — cosponsor (person)
- Gustafson — cosponsor (person)
- Hanson, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Hassan — cosponsor (person)
- Hemmingsen-Jaeger — cosponsor (person)
- Her — cosponsor (person)
- Hicks — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hollins — cosponsor (person)
- Hortman — cosponsor (person)
- Keeler — cosponsor (person)
- Kozlowski — cosponsor (person)
- Lee, K. — cosponsor (person)
- Liebling — cosponsor (person)
- Noor — cosponsor (person)
- Norris — cosponsor (person)
- Olson, L. — cosponsor (person)
- Pryor — cosponsor (person)
- Pursell — cosponsor (person)
- Sencer-Mura — cosponsor (person)
- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
- Tabke — cosponsor (person)
- Vang — cosponsor (person)
- Xiong — cosponsor (person)
- Youakim — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-04** Introduction and first reading, referred to Education Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-05** Authors added Acomb, Tabke, Liebling, Noor, Hicks, Hortman, Sencer-Mura
- **2023-01-17** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Education Finance `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-26** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-08** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, February 9, 2023
- **2023-02-09** Reported to the House
- **2023-02-09** Motion to lay on the table
- **2023-02-09** Motion did not prevail
- **2023-02-09** Amendments offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-02-09** Point of order raised, ruled well taken
- **2023-02-09** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-09** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2023-03-15** House rule 1.15 (c), message requesting concurrence received
- **2023-03-16** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2023-03-16** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2023-03-16** Motion to refuse to concur
- **2023-03-16** Motion did not prevail
- **2023-03-16** Motion to concur with Senate amendments question recurred
- **2023-03-16** Motion prevailed
- **2023-03-16** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2023-03-16** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2023-03-17** Presented to Governor 03/17/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-17** Governor approval 03/17/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-17** Secretary of State, Filed 03/17/2023
- **2023-02-13** Received from House `introduction`
- **2023-02-13** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2023-02-13** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-08** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-14** Special Order
- **2023-03-14** Motion did not prevail to lay on table
- **2023-03-14** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-17** Presentment date 03/17/23
- **2023-03-17** Governor's action Approval 03/17/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-17** Secretary of State Chapter 18 03/17/23

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eac4e0e0-e6ce-4045-9382-e0c5f9d51af7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).