---
type: "Bill"
title: "Omnibus Veterans policy and appropriations"
description: "Omnibus Veterans policy and appropriations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SF 1959"
citation: "Minnesota SF 1959 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations-Omnibus Bills", "Military and Military Affairs Department", "Omnibus", "Veterans and Veterans Affairs Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Putnam"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 43
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9964e63e-24f6-46d3-aee6-039297d6672e"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/1959?list=open&body=Senate"
source_hash: "ca53bf0307916a72d0d9ddb270ff73a1f651670e9de7cee43fea82bacc4cbcf7"
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 SF 1959 (2025-2026) — Omnibus Veterans policy and appropriations

## 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/SF/1959/versions/1/)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/1959/versions/ue/1/)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/1959/versions/2/)
4. **2nd Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/1959/versions/ue/2/)
5. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/1959/versions/3/)
6. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/1959/versions/4/)
7. **CCR-SF1959** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/1959/versions/ccr/0/)
8. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/SF/1959/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Amendment to Amendment — **67–67** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **67–67** (fail) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by Conference — **130–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, as amended — **126–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Putnam — primary (person)
- Bliss — cosponsor (person)
- Carlson — cosponsor (person)
- Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Xiong — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-24** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-24** Senate file first reading, referred to Ways and Means
- **2025-04-25** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-25** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-28** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, April 29, 2025
- **2025-04-29** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-29** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Senate refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2025-05-01** Senate conferees Putnam, Gustafson, Anderson
- **2025-05-01** House accedes, conference committee of 4 to be appointed
- **2025-05-01** House conferees Bliss, Duran, Xiong, Hemmingsen-Jaeger
- **2025-05-17** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2025-05-17** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2025-05-17** House adopted conference committee report
- **2025-05-17** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2025-05-17** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2025-05-20** Presented to Governor 05/20/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-23** Governor approval 05/23/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-23** Secretary of State, Filed 05/23/2025
- **2025-02-27** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2025-02-27** Referred to Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Author added Carlson
- **2025-04-03** Author added Mitchell
- **2025-04-07** Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Finance `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23** Special Order: Amended
- **2025-04-23** Third reading Passed as amended `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Returned from House with amendment
- **2025-04-30** Laid on table
- **2025-05-01** Taken from table
- **2025-05-01** Senate not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2025-05-01** Senate conferees Putnam; Gustafson; Anderson
- **2025-05-05** House conferees Bliss; Duran; Xiong; Hemmingsen-Jaeger
- **2025-05-17** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2025-05-17** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2025-05-17** Third Reading Repassed
- **2025-05-18** House adopted SCC report and repassed bill
- **2025-05-20** Presentment date 05/20/25
- **2025-05-23** Governor's action Approval 05/23/25 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-23** Secretary of State Chapter 30 05/23/25
- **2025-07-01** Effective date 07/01/2025

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9964e63e-24f6-46d3-aee6-039297d6672e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).