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HF3691 • 2026

Emergency managers established as essential employees.

Emergency managers established as essential employees.

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Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Virnig, Johnson, P., Repinski, Warwas, Kozlowski, Gander
Last action
2026-04-07
Official status
Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Public Safety Finance and Policy
Effective date
Not listed

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-07 House

    Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Public Safety Finance and Policy

  2. 2026-03-26 House

    Authors added Kozlowski and Gander

  3. 2026-03-25 House

    Author added Warwas

  4. 2026-02-25 House

    Introduction and first reading, referred to Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Official Summary Text

Emergency managers established as essential employees.

Current Bill Text

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relating to public safety; establishing that emergency managers are essential

employees; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 179A.03, subdivision 7.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 179A.03, subdivision 7, is amended to read:

Subd. 7.

Essential employee.

"Essential employee" means firefighters, peace officers

subject to licensure under sections
626.84
to
626.863
, 911 system and police and fire

department public safety dispatchers,
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emergency managers,
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guards at correctional facilities,

confidential employees, supervisory employees, assistant county attorneys, assistant city

attorneys, principals, and assistant principals. However, for state employees, "essential

employee" means all employees in law enforcement, public safety radio communications

operators, health care professionals, correctional guards, professional engineering, and

supervisory collective bargaining units, irrespective of severance, and no other employees.

For University of Minnesota employees, "essential employee" means all employees in law

enforcement, nursing professional and supervisory units, irrespective of severance, and no

other employees. "Firefighters" means salaried employees of a fire department whose duties

include, directly or indirectly, controlling, extinguishing, preventing, detecting, or

investigating fires. Employees for whom the state court administrator is the negotiating

employer are not essential employees. For Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc. employees,

"essential employees" means all employees.