SF 684

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 01/28/2025 10:19 a.m.

A bill for an act
relating to human services; clarifying notice to the revisor of statutes of federal
approval of legislative enactments; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section
256.01, by adding a subdivision.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 256.01, is amended by adding a subdivision
to read:

new text begin Subd. 44. new text end

new text begin Notification of federal approval; report. new text end

new text begin (a) For any provision over which
the commissioner has jurisdiction and that has an effective date contingent upon federal
approval, whether the contingency is expressed in an effective date, in the text of a statutory
provision, or in the text of an uncodified section of session law, the commissioner must
notify the revisor of statutes of which enacted provisions contain such contingent federal
approval and when federal approval is obtained for any such provision according to
paragraphs (b) and (c).
new text end

new text begin (b) By July 1 of each year, the commissioner must provide the revisor of statutes; the
director of the House Research Department; and the director of Senate Counsel, Research
and Fiscal Analysis with a report containing a complete list of all provisions enacted since
the preceding July 1 with an effective date contingent on federal approval.
new text end

new text begin (c) By September 1 of each year, the commissioner must provide the revisor of statutes;
the director of the House Research Department; and the director of Senate Counsel, Research
and Fiscal Analysis with a report containing a complete list of all statutory provisions
previously enacted with an effective date contingent on federal approval. The commissioner
must identify in the report which, if any, provisions received federal approval since the
preceding September 1 and the date that federal approval for each provision was received.
If no provisions have received federal approval since the preceding September 1, the report
must state that fact. The revisor of statutes may authorize the commissioner to remove
federally approved provisions from subsequent reports submitted.
new text end

new text begin (d) The reports in paragraphs (b) and (c) must be provided in a form prescribed by the
revisor of statutes.
new text end

new text begin (e) An employee in the Department of Human Services who is responsible for identifying
and tracking federal approval of provisions must attest to the accuracy of the reports in a
manner prescribed by the revisor of statutes.
new text end

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment.
new text end