---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enhanced criminal penalty provided for violations of coercion crime."
description: "Enhanced criminal penalty provided for violations of coercion crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HF 2358"
citation: "Minnesota HF 2358 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Criminals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Van Binsbergen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-03-13"
last_action: "2026-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/291e2036-577d-4e13-aaf6-de9889f2b340"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/2358?list=open&body=House"
source_hash: "5e0174a409f98747f2ae07d94df16829c001a9dd638367c02120f6be17fbbe9c"
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 2358 (2025-2026) — Enhanced criminal penalty provided for violations of coercion crime.

## 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/94/2025/0/HF/2358/versions/1/)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/2358/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **134–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Van Binsbergen — primary (person)
- Bahner — cosponsor (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Curran — cosponsor (person)
- Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Repinski — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-13** Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** Authors added Repinski and Curran
- **2026-03-05** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-05** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-16** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, April 20, 2026
- **2026-04-20** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-04-20** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2026-04-22** Author added Bahner
- **2026-05-04** Returned from Senate
- **2026-05-06** Presented to Governor 05/06/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-07** Governor approval 05/07/26 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-07** Secretary of State, Filed 05/07/2026
- **2026-04-21** Received from House `introduction`
- **2026-04-21** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2026-04-21** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF281, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-22** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF281
- **2026-04-22** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-30** Special Order: Rule 45 amendment stricken
- **2026-04-30** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-05-06** Presentment date 05/06/26
- **2026-05-07** Governor's action Approval 05/07/26 `executive-signature`
- **2026-05-07** Secretary of State Chapter 76 05/07/26
- **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/291e2036-577d-4e13-aaf6-de9889f2b340`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).