---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vehicles approaching school buses to stop for flashing red lights requirement"
description: "Vehicles approaching school buses to stop for flashing red lights requirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "SF 3623"
citation: "Minnesota SF 3623 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Traffic Regulations", "Transportation and Transportation Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson Stewart"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-02-17"
last_action: "2026-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d84c15d7-9379-43f5-8709-e739ccdc6447"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2026/0/SF/3623?list=open&body=Senate"
source_hash: "b002d3ca09a372ae4860ee5a7877c48185030989954363ecf86b62724df67b43"
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 3623 (2025-2026) — Vehicles approaching school buses to stop for flashing red lights requirement

## 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/94/2026/0/SF/3623/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Johnson Stewart — primary (person)
- Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Altendorf — cosponsor (person)
- Bakeberg — cosponsor (person)
- Coleman — cosponsor (person)
- Curran — cosponsor (person)
- Dotseth — cosponsor (person)
- Duran — cosponsor (person)
- Gordon — cosponsor (person)
- Gottfried — cosponsor (person)
- Greene — cosponsor (person)
- Hollins — cosponsor (person)
- Jasinski — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Koegel — cosponsor (person)
- Kotyza-Witthuhn — cosponsor (person)
- Koznick — cosponsor (person)
- Lawrence — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Myers — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Perryman — cosponsor (person)
- Pursell — cosponsor (person)
- Putnam — cosponsor (person)
- Rarick — cosponsor (person)
- Rehrauer — cosponsor (person)
- Repinski — cosponsor (person)
- Reyer — cosponsor (person)
- Robbins — cosponsor (person)
- Schwartz — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Sexton — cosponsor (person)
- Van Binsbergen — cosponsor (person)
- Zeleznikar — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-03-09** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2026-03-09** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF3436
- **2026-03-12** Bills identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2026-03-12** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-18** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, March 23, 2026
- **2026-03-23** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2026-03-23** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2026-03-25** Presented to Governor 03/25/26 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-27** Governor approval 03/27/26 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-27** Secretary of State, Filed 03/27/26
- **2026-02-17** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2026-02-17** Referred to Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-19** Author added Jasinski
- **2026-02-26** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-26** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2026-02-26** Authors added Nelson; Coleman
- **2026-03-09** Special Order
- **2026-03-09** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2026-03-25** Returned from House
- **2026-03-25** Presentment date 03/25/26
- **2026-03-27** Governor's action Approval 03/27/26 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-27** Secretary of State Chapter 41 03/27/26
- **2026-03-28** Effective date 03/28/2026

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d84c15d7-9379-43f5-8709-e739ccdc6447`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).