---
type: "Bill"
title: "Data center regulatory bill."
description: "Data center regulatory bill."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025s1"
identifier: "HF 16"
citation: "Minnesota HF 16 (2025s1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Telecommunications and Information Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davids"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-06-09"
last_action: "2025-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6397bd94-281f-4ab7-ad34-1b6e757e658d"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/1/HF/16?body=House"
source_hash: "a8cf668a9070b3f5feeba2aaaf8dc49415633c1f58a28fda49460048a85e7656"
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 16 (2025s1) — Data center regulatory bill.

## 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/94/2025/1/HF/16/versions/0/)

## Sponsors

- Davids — primary (person)
- Huot — cosponsor (person)
- Rest — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-09** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2025-06-09** Rules suspended
- **2025-06-09** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-09** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-06-09** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2025-06-12** Presented to Governor 06/12/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-14** Governor approval 06/14/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-14** Secretary of State, Filed 06/14/2025
- **2025-06-09** Received from House `introduction`
- **2025-06-09** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2025-06-09** Urgency declared rules suspended
- **2025-06-09** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-09** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-06-12** Presentment date 06/12/25
- **2025-06-14** Governor's action Approval 06/14/25 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-14** Secretary of State Chapter 12 06/14/25

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6397bd94-281f-4ab7-ad34-1b6e757e658d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).