republic-os/legislation/us/states/mn/2013-2014/hf-2479.md

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Bill	Housing courts and housing calendars allowed to use referees almost exclusively for landlord and tenant cases.	Housing courts and housing calendars allowed to use referees almost exclusively for landlord and tenant cases.	us/states/mn	Minnesota Legislature	2013-2014	HF 2479	Minnesota HF 2479 (2013-2014)	bill	Courts Housing and Housing Finance Agency Landlords and Tenants	enacted	Hilstrom	2	20	0	2014-02-27	2014-08-01	openstates	ocd-bill/dd22eef4-2bc1-4d0d-9b26-0ed729081cfb	https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF2479&ssn=0&y=2014	8781d15dd8c888c4fdde093c85f987afc6a93a561f206db1c94cf8f9830cc710	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mn

Minnesota HF 2479 (2013-2014) — Housing courts and housing calendars allowed to use referees almost exclusively for landlord and tenant cases.

Version chain

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

1. 1st Engrossment (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduction (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• Hilstrom — primary (person)
• Allen — cosponsor (person)
• Bly — cosponsor (person)
• Cornish — cosponsor (person)
• Drazkowski — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson, B. — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson, S. — cosponsor (person)
• Latz — cosponsor (person)
• Lesch — cosponsor (person)
• McNamar — cosponsor (person)
• O'Neill — cosponsor (person)
• Pugh — cosponsor (person)
• Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Slocum — cosponsor (person)
• Winkler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-27 Introduction and first reading, referred to Judiciary Finance and Policy introduction, referral-committee
• 2014-03-03 Author added Slocum
• 2014-03-06 Committee report, to adopt as amended committee-passage
• 2014-03-06 Second reading reading-2
• 2014-04-10 House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, April 22, 2014
• 2014-04-22 Third reading reading-3
• 2014-04-22 Bill was passed passage
• 2014-05-05 Returned from Senate
• 2014-05-05 Presented to Governor 05/05/14 executive-receipt
• 2014-04-23 Received from House introduction
• 2014-04-23 Introduction and first reading introduction
• 2014-04-23 Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF2152, now on General Orders referral-committee
• 2014-04-24 Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF2152
• 2014-04-24 Second reading reading-2
• 2014-05-02 Special Order
• 2014-05-02 Third reading Passed passage
• 2014-05-05 Presentment date 05/05/14
• 2014-05-06 Governor's action Approval 05/06/14 executive-signature
• 2014-05-08 Secretary of State Chapter 205 05/06/14
• 2014-08-01 Effective date 08/01/14

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd22eef4-2bc1-4d0d-9b26-0ed729081cfb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).