Committee
Children and Families Finance and Policy
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committee members
Pam Altendorf (R)
Nathan Coulter (D)
Co-Vice Chair
Jess Hanson (D)
Kim Hicks (D)
Co-Chair
Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn (D)
Xp Lee (D)
Joe McDonald (R)
Danny Nadeau (R)
Co-Vice Chair
Nathan Nelson (R)
Bjorn Olson (R)
María Isa Pérez-Vega (D)
Samantha Sencer-Mura (D)
Co-Chair
Nolan West (R)
Natalie Zeleznikar (R)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HF1 | Office of Inspector General established, powers and duties provided, enhanced grant oversight provided, retaliation prohibited, existing executive Offices of Inspector General transferred or repealed, fraud detection and prevention provided, conforming changes made, reports required, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/03/2025 |
| HF22 | Parent's bill of rights created. | Dead | 02/10/2025 |
| HF45 | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Outreach Program funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/10/2025 |
| HF102 | Circumstances under which the public authority must direct support to an obligee modified. | Dead | 03/27/2025 |
| HF470 | Early leaning scholarships funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| HF495 | Day care costs paid by the taxpayer provided a subtraction. | Dead | 02/19/2026 |
| HF587 | Underperforming school districts required to have their prekindergarten programs evaluated by the Parent Aware program. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| HF588 | Foster children receiving Supplemental Security Income benefits trust established, report required, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| HF628 | Child care staff qualification, staff ratio, and group size licensing standards modified. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| HF633 | Licensed in-home child care providers market value exclusion established. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| HF655 | Family child care capacity limits amended. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| HF656 | Child care licensing; variances to licensed capacity allowed. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| HF657 | Rochester Area Foundation funding provided for the Pamoja Women program, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| HF776 | Family assets for independence program funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| HF777 | Food shelf program funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| HF803 | Eligibility criteria modified for the voluntary prekindergarten program. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HF841 | Food shelf programs funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HF847 | Community action grants funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HF897 | Protection to children and vulnerable adults from exposure to fentanyl provided, and criminal penalties for violation imposed. | Dead | 03/17/2025 |
| HF994 | ParentChild+ program funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HF1002 | Head Start funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HF1098 | Food shelf facilities infrastructure funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/19/2025 |
| HF1112 | Regional food bank grants created, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/19/2025 |
| HF1146 | Minnesota SNAP step up for seniors program established, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/19/2025 |
| HF1147 | School-age care programs authorized to provide services to eligible prekindergarten students. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| HF1148 | Prepared meals food grant program established, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/19/2025 |
| HF1158 | Diaper distribution program modified. | Dead | 02/19/2025 |
| HF1164 | Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches funding provided for drop-in support services, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/19/2025 |
| HF1169 | Commissioner of children, youth, and families directed to make recommendations for paperwork reduction relating to child protection cases, funding provided to improve the Social Services Information System, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/19/2025 |
| HF1247 | Aides allowed to supervise children in child care. | Dead | 02/20/2025 |
| HF1276 | Northstar Care for Children benefits modified for children under the age of six and children transferred into Northstar Care for Children. | Dead | 02/20/2025 |
| HF1300 | Commissioner of human services or commissioner of children, youth, and families prohibited from rescinding public assistance benefits due to vaccination status. | Dead | 02/20/2025 |
| HF1316 | Independent contractors and payors added to the centralized work reporting system, and payors required to report independent contractors to the centralized work reporting system. | Dead | 02/20/2025 |
| HF1336 | Child care improvement grants funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/24/2025 |
| HF1342 | Unrelated individual providing child care to two families exempted from licensure. | Dead | 02/24/2025 |
| HF1346 | Training requirements modified for mandatory reporters. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/24/2025 |
| HF1367 | Judicial review of child maltreatment occurring outside of Minnesota allowed, and local welfare agency responsibility for assessing or investigating alleged maltreatment occurring outside of state provided. | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| HF1383 | Program established to assist families with the cost of child care. | Dead | 02/24/2025 |
| HF1384 | Individual income tax; dependent care credit expanded, and Great Start child care credit established. | Dead | 02/24/2025 |
| HF1424 | Relative foster care licensing, training, and background study requirements modified; Minnesota family investment program modified; and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/24/2025 |
| HF1499 | Modernization of family child care regulations modified. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| HF1563 | Individual income and corporate franchise taxes; subtraction for employer-provided dependent care assistance allowed, and tax credit for employer-provided child care expenses established. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| HF1581 | Diaper distribution grant program funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| HF1604 | School attendance mandated to a local welfare agency, habitual truant definition modified, and money appropriated for grants to fund child welfare response efforts. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| HF1614 | Child welfare; neglect definition modified to clarify when a child is considered to be without the special care made necessary by a physical, mental, or emotional condition. | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| HF1660 | Commissioner of children, youth, and families directed to conduct a statewide needs assessment for out-of-school and youth programming, report required, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/27/2025 |
| HF1824 | Commissioner of children, youth, and families funding provided to create and implement technology portals to connect individuals with support systems; and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/03/2025 |
| HF1897 | Correction order requirements modified. | Dead | 03/05/2025 |
| HF1900 | Minnesota Family Investment Program and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits restrictions removed for individuals convicted of drug crimes. | Dead | 03/05/2025 |
| HF1915 | Child care centers required to use video security cameras to monitor infants and toddlers, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/05/2025 |
| HF1916 | Child care assistance program integrity requirements established; commissioner of children, youth, and families directed to establish an electronic record-keeping system for child care enrollment; reports required; and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/05/2025 |
| HF1918 | Department of Children, Youth, and Families policy language; TEACH early childhood program, great start compensation support payment program, child welfare policies, and out-of-home placement plans updated; and provisions to prevent foster care placements modified. | Dead | 03/05/2025 |
| HF1926 | Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches grant funding provided for food shelves, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/05/2025 |
| HF1927 | Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches funding provided for site selection and property acquisition for a new services and supports facility, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/05/2025 |
| HF2009 | Office of the Foster Youth Ombudsperson funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/06/2025 |
| HF2078 | Child care provider licensing provisions modified related to parent access, furnishings, equipment, and materials. | Dead | 03/10/2025 |
| HF2135 | Fiscal analysis of child welfare system required; comprehensive child welfare program, practice, and service evaluation required; reports required; and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/10/2025 |
| HF2136 | Grant funding provided for forensic interview training scholarships, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/10/2025 |
| HF2137 | Development and dissemination of informational materials on type 1 diabetes for parents of children in preschool programs required. | Dead | 03/10/2025 |
| HF2175 | Medical assistance vendor background checks required; fraud detection system established for Department of Human Services and the Department of Children, Youth, and Families; and reports required. | Dead | 03/12/2025 |
| HF2191 | Children and families licensing and certification regulations modified. | Dead | 03/12/2025 |
| HF2219 | Traditional and gestational surrogacy arrangements regulated, and crime of operating a for-profit surrogacy agency created. | Dead | 03/12/2025 |
| HF2226 | Background study requirements for child care providers modified. | Dead | 03/12/2025 |
| HF2305 | Child care licensing action accompanied by a maltreatment investigation memorandum required to be publicly posted for ten years. | Dead | 03/13/2025 |
| HF2362 | Youth intervention programs funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/13/2025 |
| HF2436 | Children and families finance bill. | Dead | 03/17/2025 |
| HF2456 | Cost-of-living adjustments in maintenance or child support orders repealed, and conforming changes made. | Dead | 03/27/2025 |
| HF2459 | Metro Deaf School grant funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| HF2551 | Follow-up to 2024 children, youth, and families recodification; technical changes made. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/20/2025 |
| HF2617 | Child care conditional license requirements modified, commissioner directed to create standardized visit timelines and requirements, definition of education amended, background study liaison created, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/20/2025 |
| HF2643 | Indication of self-report on child care licensing notifications required. | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| HF2728 | Child care great start compensation support payments modified. | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| HF2732 | Rural child care stabilization and support payment program established, report required, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| HF2863 | Cross-references in the definition of child care background study subject corrected. | Dead | 03/26/2025 |
| HF2877 | Group family day care child-adult capacity ratios and age distribution restrictions modified. | Dead | 03/26/2025 |
| HF2925 | Social Services Information System improvements funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/27/2025 |
| HF2929 | Eligibility determinations for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program households clarified. | Dead | 03/27/2025 |
| HF2939 | Implementation dates for provisions of the Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act delayed. | Dead | 04/01/2025 |
| HF2967 | African American Child Well-Being Advisory Council reports modified; reports required; child protection workers, child welfare technology improvements, and Family First Prevention Services Act grants funding provided; and money appropriated. | Dead | 04/01/2025 |
| HF3002 | Eligibility requirements for foster care benefits after age 18 modified to include children for whom permanent legal and physical custody is transferred to a relative after age ten. | Dead | 04/01/2025 |
| HF3009 | Multidisciplinary child protection team and its duties modified. | Dead | 04/01/2025 |
| HF3024 | Foster youth bill of rights established. | Dead | 04/01/2025 |
| HF3059 | Child care assistance program requirements modified, and reports required. | Dead | 04/02/2025 |
| HF3085 | Community Mediation Minnesota grant funding provided to administer a statewide family mediation pilot program, and money appropriated. | Dead | 04/03/2025 |
| HF3196 | African Youth Soccer League established, reports required, and money appropriated. | Dead | 04/21/2025 |
| HF3223 | Food assistance funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 04/22/2025 |
| HF3385 | Emergency support food shelves and food banks funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/17/2026 |
| HF3415 | Access to child care center facilities limited. | Dead | 02/17/2026 |
| HF3489 | Licensing boards reporting required, criminal offense of grooming established, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/16/2026 |
| HF3542 | Disclosure of certain investigations and withholding of payments required within 30 days of a request. | Dead | 02/26/2026 |
| HF3586 | Regional food bank grant program established, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/23/2026 |
| HF3603 | Commissioner of children, youth, and families directed to request a federal waiver to prohibit the purchase of certain items with SNAP benefits. | Dead | 02/23/2026 |
| HF3624 | Food shelf programs funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/23/2026 |
| HF3665 | Out-of-home placement plan requirements modified to include early childhood education and child care programs, and agencies and guardians ad litem required to provide information on early childhood education and child care programs for children in foster care. | Dead | 02/23/2026 |
| HF3714 | Enrollment and eligibility priority modified for children in foster care for various children, youth, and families education and financial assistance programs; Northstar foster care child care allowance modified; and licensing agencies required to provide license holders with information about child care costs and early childhood education programs. | Dead | 02/25/2026 |
| HF3750 | Requirements governing licenses and license exemptions for crisis nurseries amended, and report required. | Dead | 02/26/2026 |
| HF3773 | Minnesota supplemental nutrition assistance program established, and money appropriated. | Dead | 02/26/2026 |
| HF3819 | Licensing inspection requirements for child care providers modified, program integrity requirements for child care assistance program established, and report required. | Dead | 03/02/2026 |
| HF3831 | SNAP income and asset requirements modified. | Dead | 03/02/2026 |
| HF3877 | Notices to public authorities in dissolution cases clarified, and Supreme Court Council on Child Protection expiration date modified. | Dead | 03/02/2026 |
| HF3901 | Investigative powers added to the Office of the Foster Youth Ombudsperson. | Dead | 03/02/2026 |
| HF3941 | Rally to Read funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/05/2026 |
| HF4125 | Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act modified, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/09/2026 |
| HF4126 | Requirements for M\mandatory reports of child maltreatment modified, and criminal penalties for failure to report child maltreatment modified. | Dead | 03/09/2026 |
| HF4136 | County share for administrative costs modified for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. | Dead | 03/09/2026 |
| HF4174 | Parent support outreach program funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/12/2026 |
| HF4182 | Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches grant funding provided for site selection and property acquisition for a new services and supports facility, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/12/2026 |
| HF4195 | Youth intervention program grants modified. | Dead | 03/12/2026 |
| HF4206 | Extended foster care services grant program established, reports required, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/12/2026 |
| HF4217 | Medical assistance allowed to be paid for any person receiving foster care benefits past 18 years of age, terminology and definitions modified, and eligibility criteria and requirements related to extended foster care modified. | Dead | 03/12/2026 |
| HF4260 | Commissioner's duties related to allocating federal SNAP fiscal disallowances or sanctions modified. | Dead | 03/12/2026 |
| HF4277 | Child care centers video security cameras use requirements modified. | Dead | 03/12/2026 |
| HF4316 | Licensing actions modified to indicate whether a violation was self-reported, and child care programs required to give parents materials on how to recognize abuse. | Dead | 03/16/2026 |
| HF4327 | Departments of Human Services and Children, Youth, and Families required to provide a report to the legislature on program integrity. | Dead | 03/16/2026 |
| HF4336 | Child care assistance program repealed. | Dead | 03/16/2026 |
| HF4382 | Rules governing licensed child care centers and licensed family child care modernized and encoded; and family child care, child care center works, policies, capacity, staff ratios, equipment, notifications, parent access, record keeping, supervision, facilities, health and safety, food and nutrition, and transportation requirements created. | Dead | 03/16/2026 |
| HF4384 | Abusive head trauma training requirements for child care providers modified. | Dead | 03/16/2026 |
| HF4389 | Nonprofit limited liability companies allowed to apply for a license to be a child-placing agency; child care background study timing modified; and foster care, child placement, and child maltreatment provisions modified. | Dead | 03/16/2026 |
| HF4407 | Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act modified. | Dead | 03/16/2026 |
| HF4408 | Child fatalities and near fatalities public disclosure required, and child mortality review panel investigations and annual report requirements modified. | Dead | 03/16/2026 |
| HF4419 | Abusive head trauma training requirements for child care centers modified. | Dead | 03/18/2026 |
| HF4420 | Correction order requirements modified. | Dead | 03/18/2026 |
| HF4432 | Child care assistance program absent days limit exemption established, and technical changes made. | Dead | 03/18/2026 |
| HF4444 | Youth intervention program supplemental grants funding provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/18/2026 |
| HF4525 | Human services background studies and variances modified, data and language for licensing laws aligned, human services licensing procedures clarified, and program integrity provisions added. | Dead | 03/23/2026 |
| HF4548 | Department of Human Services and Department of Children, Youth, and Families forecasted program adjustments made. | Dead | 03/23/2026 |
| HF4654 | Great start compensation support payments grant program modified. | Dead | 03/25/2026 |
| HF4655 | Child care center staff training requirements modified. | Dead | 03/25/2026 |
| HF4728 | Task Force on Early Childhood Educator Licensure established, report required, appointments provided, and money appropriated. | Dead | 03/26/2026 |
| HF4732 | Responsible social services agencies required to provide luggage for children in foster care. | Dead | 03/26/2026 |
| HF4870 | Minnesota Board of Early Car and Education established, duties and responsibilities provided, rulemaking authorized, reports required, and money appropriated. | Dead | 04/09/2026 |
| HF4872 | Current and recent foster youth receiving benefits and other income trust established, rulemaking authorized, report required, and money appropriated. | Dead | 04/09/2026 |
| HF5133 | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program contingency appropriation established, and report required. | Dead | 05/11/2026 |