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HF5154 • 2026

Office of Business Regulation and Land Ownership within the Department of Agriculture established, reports required, and money appropriated.

Office of Business Regulation and Land Ownership within the Department of Agriculture established, reports required, and money appropriated.

Agriculture
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Hansen, R., Gottfried, Vang, Sencer-Mura, Bierman, Fischer, Carroll, Clardy, Tabke, Virnig, Jordan, Xiong, Finke, Pursell, Lee, K., Kraft
Last action
2026-05-17
Official status
Authors added Pursell; Lee, K.; and Kraft
Effective date
Not listed

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Office of Business Regulation and Land Ownership within the Department of Agriculture established, reports required, and money appropriated.

Office of Business Regulation and Land Ownership within the Department of Agriculture established, reports required, and money appropriated.

What This Bill Does

  • Office of Business Regulation and Land Ownership within the Department of Agriculture established, reports required, and money appropriated.

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  • 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. 2026-05-17 House

    Authors added Pursell; Lee, K.; and Kraft

  2. 2026-05-16 House

    Introduction and first reading, referred to Agriculture Finance and Policy

Official Summary Text

Office of Business Regulation and Land Ownership within the Department of Agriculture established, reports required, and money appropriated.

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to agriculture; establishing the Office of Business Regulation and Land

Ownership within the Department of Agriculture; requiring reports; appropriating

money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 17.

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

Section 1.

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[17.034] OFFICE OF BUSINESS REGULATION AND LAND

OWNERSHIP.

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Subdivision 1.

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Establishment.

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The Office of Business Regulation and Land Ownership

is established within the Department of Agriculture. The Office of Business Regulation and

Land Ownership has the duties described in subdivision 2.

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Subd. 2.

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Duties; reports.

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(a) The office must:

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(1) examine the establishment of monopolies and consolidation of agriculture-related

businesses in the state, including businesses that produce or sell agricultural commodities,

seed, and agricultural chemicals;

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(2) evaluate purchases of agricultural land and land consolidation across industries in

the state by:

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(i) individuals;

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(ii) limited liability companies;

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(iii) corporations;

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(iv) churches; and

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(v) other nonprofit organizations;

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(3) identify trends in agricultural land purchasing and land consolidation across industries

in the state; and

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(4) provide advice to the commissioner of agriculture.

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(b) The office must submit a biennial report with its findings to the chairs and ranking

minority members of the legislative committees with jurisdiction over agriculture.

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Subd. 3.

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Director; other staff.

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(a) The commissioner of agriculture must appoint a

director to manage the Office of Business Regulation and Land Ownership. The director

must have knowledge about antitrust law, property law, and agriculture-related businesses.

The director serves in the unclassified service.

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(b) The commissioner must hire staff, including lawyers and economists, to perform the

duties of the Office of Business Regulation and Land Ownership. The staff are in the

unclassified service of the state. Compensation for staff must be established pursuant to

chapter 43A. The staff must be reimbursed for the expenses necessarily incurred in the

performance of official duties in the same manner as other state employees.

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Sec. 2.
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APPROPRIATION; OFFICE OF BUSINESS REGULATION AND LAND

OWNERSHIP.
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$....... in fiscal year 2027 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of

agriculture for the purposes of establishing and funding the Office of Business Regulation

and Land Ownership within the Department of Agriculture.

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