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HF4313 • 2026

State legislators and legislative employees required to pay 50 percent of the Minnesota Paid Leave Law premium.

State legislators and legislative employees required to pay 50 percent of the Minnesota Paid Leave Law premium.

Labor
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Robbins, Bennett, Altendorf, Van Binsbergen, Dippel, Gordon
Last action
2026-03-16
Official status
Introduction and first reading, referred to Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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State legislators and legislative employees required to pay 50 percent of the Minnesota Paid Leave Law premium.

State legislators and legislative employees required to pay 50 percent of the Minnesota Paid Leave Law premium.

What This Bill Does

  • State legislators and legislative employees required to pay 50 percent of the Minnesota Paid Leave Law premium.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-16 House

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

Official Summary Text

State legislators and legislative employees required to pay 50 percent of the Minnesota Paid Leave Law premium.

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to employment; requiring state legislators and legislative employees to

pay 50 percent of the Minnesota Paid Leave Law premium; amending Minnesota

Statutes 2024, section 268B.14, subdivision 3.

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

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 268B.14, subdivision 3, is amended to read:

Subd. 3.

Employee charge back.

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(a)
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Notwithstanding section
177.24, subdivision 4
, or

181.06, subdivision 1
, and subject to subdivision 6, employers must pay a minimum of 50

percent of the annual premiums paid under this section. Employees, through a deduction in

their wages to the employer, must pay the remaining portion, if any, of the premium not

paid by the employer. Such deductions for any given employee must be in equal proportion

to the premiums paid based on the wages of that employee. Deductions under this section

must not cause an employee's wage, after the deduction, to fall below the rate required to

be paid to the employee by any applicable statute, regulation, rule, ordinance, or government

resolution or policy, whichever rate of pay is greater.

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(b) The state legislature must require legislators and legislative employees to pay 50

percent of the annual premium, through a deduction in their wages.

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