republic-os/legislation/us/states/mn/2019-2020/hf-281.md

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Bill	Open Meeting Law; interactive television attendance requirements modified.	Open Meeting Law; interactive television attendance requirements modified.	us/states/mn	Minnesota Legislature	2019-2020	HF 281	Minnesota HF 281 (2019-2020)	bill	Legislature Open Meetings	enacted	Koegel	4	32	2	2019-01-22	2019-08-01	openstates	ocd-bill/684ea79a-e68b-4154-968f-af8bf55276c7	https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0281&ssn=0&y=2019	105fa7ca2615abb13c7531dd3a7a5c171979e914e8113edf3e653d44080b3309	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mn

Minnesota HF 281 (2019-2020) — Open Meeting Law; interactive television attendance requirements modified.

Version chain

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

1. 1st Engrossment (committee substitute) — source
2. 1st Unofficial Engrossment (committee substitute) — source
3. 2nd Engrossment (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduction (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Repassage, as amended by the Senate — 131–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 126–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Koegel — primary (person)
• Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
• Her — cosponsor (person)
• Jasinski — cosponsor (person)
• Nash — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-22 Introduction and first reading, referred to Government Operations introduction, referral-committee
• 2019-02-04 Author added Nash.
• 2019-02-14 Committee report, to adopt as amended committee-passage
• 2019-02-14 Second reading reading-2
• 2019-02-27 House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, February 28, 2019
• 2019-03-04 Author added Bernardy
• 2019-03-07 House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 7, 2019
• 2019-03-07 Third reading reading-3
• 2019-03-07 Bill was passed passage
• 2019-05-15 House rule 1.15 (c), message requesting concurrence received
• 2019-05-16 Returned from Senate with amendment
• 2019-05-16 Motion to concur with Senate amendments
• 2019-05-16 Motion prevailed
• 2019-05-16 Third reading as amended by the Senate reading-3
• 2019-05-16 Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
• 2019-05-17 Presented to Governor 05/17/19 executive-receipt
• 2019-05-17 Governor approval 05/17/19 executive-signature
• 2019-05-17 Secretary of State, Filed 05/17/19
• 2019-08-01 Effective date 08/01/19
• 2019-03-11 Received from House introduction
• 2019-03-11 Introduction and first reading introduction
• 2019-03-11 Referred to Local Government referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 Comm report: To pass and re-referred to State Government Finance and Policy and Elections committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-01 Comm report: To pass as amended committee-passage
• 2019-04-01 Second reading reading-2
• 2019-05-14 Special Order
• 2019-05-14 Third reading Passed passage
• 2019-05-16 House concurred and repassed bill
• 2019-05-17 Presentment date 05/17/2019
• 2019-05-17 Governor's action Approval 05/17/2019 executive-signature
• 2019-05-20 Secretary of State Chapter 33 05/17/2019
• 2019-08-01 Effective date 08/01/19

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/684ea79a-e68b-4154-968f-af8bf55276c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).