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HF3556 • 2026

Community solar garden named for Melissa Hortman.

Community solar garden named for Melissa Hortman.

Energy
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Acomb, Jones, Klevorn, Pursell, Smith, Fischer, Huot, Bahner, Elkins, Carroll, Luger-Nikolai, Long, Finke, Stephenson, Mahamoud, Kraft, Lee, X., Hollins, Rehm, Hansen, R., Agbaje, Buck, Kozlowski, Keeler, Norris, Reyer, Gottfried, Hill, Tabke, Falconer, Rehrauer, Greene, Clardy, Hussein
Last action
Final Acti
Official status
Presentment date 04/13/26
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Community solar garden named for Melissa Hortman.

Community solar garden named for Melissa Hortman.

What This Bill Does

  • Community solar garden named for Melissa Hortman.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. Final Acti House

    Presented to Governor 04/13/2026

  2. Final Acti Senate

    Presentment date 04/13/26

  3. 2026-04-09 House

    Returned from Senate

  4. 2026-04-09 Senate

    Special Order

  5. 2026-03-18 Senate

    Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF3800

  6. 2026-03-17 Senate

    Received from House

  7. 2026-03-16 House

    Author added Hussein

  8. 2026-03-12 House

    House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 12, 2026

  9. 2026-03-09 House

    Committee report, to adopt

  10. 2026-02-25 House

    Authors added Falconer, Rehrauer, and Greene

  11. 2026-02-23 House

    Introduction and first reading, referred to Energy Finance and Policy

Official Summary Text

Community solar garden named for Melissa Hortman.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
A bill for an act

relating to energy; naming the community solar garden program for Melissa

Hortman; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 216B.1641, by adding a

subdivision.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 216B.1641, is amended by adding a subdivision

to read:

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Subd. 15.

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Short title.

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This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Melissa

Hortman Community Solar Garden Program."

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EFFECTIVE DATE.

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This section is effective the day following final enactment.

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