---
type: "Bill"
title: "Scope of hometown heroes assistance program clarified."
description: "Scope of hometown heroes assistance program clarified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HF 1163"
citation: "Minnesota HF 1163 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fire and Firefighters", "Public Safety Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Youakim"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/387a23b0-135a-40ed-aa53-1e0355b8fbce"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/1163?list=open&body=House"
source_hash: "a08a14eddd1a11c23032c531ec0799aaa4be9be58fe03bc1e254390037fb5b00"
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 1163 (2025-2026) — Scope of hometown heroes assistance program clarified.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/1163/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Youakim — primary (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Howe — cosponsor (person)
- Huot — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, P. — cosponsor (person)
- Kraft — cosponsor (person)
- Moller — cosponsor (person)
- Norris — cosponsor (person)
- Novotny — cosponsor (person)
- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
- Tabke — cosponsor (person)
- Witte — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-19** Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** Author added Norris
- **2025-03-20** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 27, 2025
- **2025-03-26** Author added Fischer
- **2025-03-27** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Returned from Senate
- **2025-05-06** Presented to Governor 05/06/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-06** Governor approval 05/06/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-07** Secretary of State, Filed 05/07/2025
- **2025-04-01** Received from House `introduction`
- **2025-04-01** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2025-04-01** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF1427, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF1427
- **2025-04-02** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-28** Special Order
- **2025-04-28** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Presentment date 05/06/25
- **2025-05-06** Governor's action Approval 05/06/25 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-06** Secretary of State Chapter 17 05/06/25
- **2025-05-07** Effective date 05/07/25

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/387a23b0-135a-40ed-aa53-1e0355b8fbce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).