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HF5077 • 2026

Reduction to local government aid to a county or city that uses the incorrect state flag established.

Reduction to local government aid to a county or city that uses the incorrect state flag established.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Freiberg, Keeler, Fischer, Xiong, Lee, X., Falconer, Hussein, Pérez-Vega, Virnig, Pursell, Kozlowski, Kotyza-Witthuhn
Last action
2026-05-04
Official status
Author added Kotyza-Witthuhn
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Reduction to local government aid to a county or city that uses the incorrect state flag established.

Reduction to local government aid to a county or city that uses the incorrect state flag established.

What This Bill Does

  • Reduction to local government aid to a county or city that uses the incorrect state flag established.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-04 House

    Author added Kotyza-Witthuhn

  2. 2026-04-30 House

    Author stricken Jones

  3. 2026-04-28 House

    Authors added Pérez-Vega, Virnig, Pursell, and Kozlowski

  4. 2026-04-27 House

    Introduction and first reading, referred to Taxes

Official Summary Text

Reduction to local government aid to a county or city that uses the incorrect state flag established.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
A bill for an act

relating to taxation; establishing a reduction to local government aid to a county

or city that uses the incorrect state flag; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota

Statutes, chapter 477A.

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

Section 1.

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[477A.0177] AID REDUCTIONS FOR USE OF INCORRECT STATE

FLAG.

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Subdivision 1.

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Penalty.

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Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the commissioner

of revenue must reduce the aid to a county or city under sections 477A.011 to 477A.03 by

ten percent if the county or city flies or otherwise makes use of a state flag other than the

design of the state flag as certified in the report of the State Emblems Redesign Commission,

as established by Laws 2023, chapter 62, article 2, section 118. The commissioner of revenue

must reduce aid under this section for aid payable in the year following any year in which

an instance occurred where the county or city used the incorrect state flag.

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Subd. 2.

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Notification.

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On December 31 of each year, the governing body of any county

or city subject to the penalty under subdivision 1 must notify the commissioner of revenue

of the county's or city's use of the incorrect state flag.

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EFFECTIVE DATE.

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This section is effective beginning with aids payable in 2027.

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