Minnesota Software Prototypes

Every 2026 Minnesota chapter, decomposed and scored for a Concourse build

This report walks each of the 92 chapters of the 2026 Minnesota Session Laws (chapters 40 through 131), splits multi-section omnibus chapters into their individual sections, identifies the responsible state agency, and proposes a concrete software-development opportunity for Concourse when one exists. Each section is independently rated. Filter by opportunity tier, search the full text, or narrow to a single agency to see what each part of state government has to stand up next.

Chapters reviewed

Ch. 40 - Ch. 131

Section opportunities

288

Decomposed across chapters

Headline opportunities

Marquee program builds

Strong opportunities

Net-new agency workflows

Actionable share

90%

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Headline opportunities(37 across 20 chapters)

Marquee program build-outs the legislature has explicitly funded or mandated.

HF3718|Ch. 53·Veterinary medicine and veterinary technology practice act rewrite

Chapter53§ 1-62

Board of Veterinary Medicine unified licensing platform replacement

Headline

What the law does

Major modernization: defines and licenses veterinary technicians and technologists, reconstitutes the Board (adds technician seat), modernizes exam workflow (NAVLE, online jurisprudence exam, ECFVG/PAVE), defines and authorizes telemedicine/teletriage and the VCPR, adds veterinary feed directive regulation, authorizes drug donation by clients to facilities, and updates prescribing/dispensing/labeling/recordkeeping.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Board of Veterinary Medicine

Concourse software opportunity

Net-new Board of Veterinary Medicine platform:

unified application/renewal for vets, veterinary technicians, and veterinary technologists
exam integration (NAVLE, online Minnesota Veterinary Jurisprudence Exam, ECFVG/PAVE, VTNE)
biennial CE tracking
complaint intake and disciplinary case management under 156.081
public license verification with fee handling
veterinary medical facility registry and inspection workflow
telemedicine/teletriage and VCPR enforcement
veterinary feed directive compliance module (156.191)
donated-drug receipt/redistribution log (156.21)

HF3676|Ch. 67·Safe at Home program expansion and anti-discrimination

Chapter67§ 1-6, 9

Modernized Safe at Home case management, coordinator registry, and court-order tracking platform

Headline

What the law does

Expands Safe at Home address-confidentiality: adds emancipated minors; tightens guardian-application requirements; strengthens judicial process before disclosure (mandatory notice to SOS with intervention standing, 30-day enforcement delay); creates a gross-misdemeanor when violations cause bodily harm; prohibits discrimination in housing/banking/education/services with a private right of action; every executive-branch agency must designate a Safe at Home coordinator by August 1, 2026; accepts the Safe at Home card as a residence document for driver's licenses; adds judicial education content.

Implementing agencies

Secretary of StateMinnesota Management and BudgetMinnesota Judicial Branch

Concourse software opportunity

Modernized Safe at Home case management and intake platform for the Secretary of State:

structured intake from adults, emancipated minors, and court-appointed guardians with court-order upload and verification (sec. 1-2, 5B.02 and 5B.03)
tracking of address-disclosure court orders with the mandatory SOS-notice and 30-day enforcement clock, findings tracking, and standing-to-intervene workflow (sec. 3, 5B.11)
statewide registry of designated executive-branch Safe at Home coordinators with August 1, 2026 onboarding workflow and per-agency inquiry routing (sec. 6, 43A.36 subd. 1(f))
discrimination-complaint intake portal under new 5B.14 with civil-action support packaging (sec. 5)
gross-misdemeanor referral tracking for violations causing bodily harm (sec. 4, 5B.13)
content management for judicial-branch Safe at Home training (sec. 9, 480.30)

HF4075|Ch. 75·Uniform firearm-restriction procedure (transfers and compliance)

Chapter75§ 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Judicial Branch firearm-transfer compliance case management under new 518B.03

Headline

What the law does

Creates a single uniform procedure (new 518B.03) for surrender, transfer, storage, and documentation of firearms when a person is subject to a court-ordered firearm prohibition (OFPs, 260C.201, 609.2242, 609.749, 629.715); requires petitions to describe firearms believed possessed; requires a compliance hearing within 10 business days; sets rules for proof of transfer, declarations of nonpossession, third-party affidavits, supervised in-agency transfers, and law-enforcement immunity.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Judicial Branch

Concourse software opportunity

Court-side case management implementing the new uniform 518B.03 procedure for every order arising under 260C.201 (domestic child abuse), 518B.01 (OFP relief), 609.2242 (domestic assault), 609.749 (harassment/stalking), or 629.715 (pretrial release):

transfer-order issuance with statutory deadlines tuned to custody status and firearm location
auto-scheduled 10-business-day compliance hearings (with judicial waiver path on a credible declaration of nonpossession)
confidential e-filing intake for proofs of transfer
third-party affidavits
declarations of nonpossession (sealed by default)
contempt/warrant workflow under 588.01 subd. 3 for noncompliance or hearing nonappearance
structured self-incrimination immunity capture with ex parte/in-camera evidence
immunity-agreement tracking with the prosecuting attorney
518B.01 subd. 14 violation escalation

HF4224|Ch. 79·Water discharge notification requirements

Chapter79§ 1

Water-discharge incident notification and downstream alerting platform under 115.061

Headline

What the law does

Expands the duty-to-notify rule for water discharges from publicly or privately owned treatment works and domestic sewer systems: in addition to MPCA, operators must promptly notify potentially impacted downstream users, explicitly including the public, Tribal governments, and downstream drinking-water facilities, using the most efficient available channel; signage required for impacted public-use areas; MPCA must publish guidance.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Pollution Control AgencyMinnesota Department of HealthTribal governments

Concourse software opportunity

Single intake/report-a-discharge portal for publicly and privately owned treatment works and domestic sewer system owners covering 115.061 paragraph (c):

structured incident capture (date and time of discharge, description of material released, public-health warning, permittee contact)
GIS-driven mapping to the hydrologic network for automatic notification of subscribed downstream drinking-water facilities, Tribal governments, and public-use-area authorities
multi-channel public alerts (in-person, telephone, radio, social media, web page, or other expedited form)
signage-posting confirmations for impacted public-use areas
a full audit log of notice content, recipients, channels, and timestamps

SF1714|Ch. 90·Payment transparency in public contracts

Chapter90§ 1

Statewide subcontractor payment transparency portal

Headline

What the law does

Requires every public contracting agency, on written request from a participating contractor or subcontractor of any tier, to provide payment information (amount, paid/approved date, copy of payment application or highway-construction estimate/voucher) within 7 calendar days; agency contact for payment info must be posted on the public website; an automated internet-based system is explicitly contemplated.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of TransportationDepartment of AdministrationAll state and local public contracting agencies

Concourse software opportunity

Subcontractor Payment Transparency Portal as a multi-tenant SaaS where subcontractors of any tier authenticate
prove project participation
file information requests
self-serve payment details (amount, approved date, payment-application or highway-construction estimate/voucher copies) pulled from agency ERP/SWIFT or county financial systems
with a 7-day SLA timer
audit trail
public agency-contact directory. The statute explicitly contemplates this kind of automated internet-based system

SF856|Ch. 92·Office of the Inspector General

Chapter92§ Art. 1 Sec. 4, Art. 1 Sec. 6, Art. 1 Sec. 7, Art. 1 Sec. 8, Art. 1 Sec. 9, Art. 1 Sec. 11, Art. 1 Sec. 17

Statewide OIG fraud case management and investigation platform

Headline

What the law does

Creates a new independent statewide Office of the Inspector General (new Minn. Stat. ch. 15E) reporting to the governor, with broad cross-agency authority to investigate fraud and misuse, set standards for agency inspectors general, coordinate multi-agency investigations, maintain a public exclusion list, seek court orders to freeze public funds, and (effective 2028) stand up a peace-officer Anti-Fraud and Waste Bureau. Also creates a Legislative Inspector General Advisory Commission, an anonymous tip line/website, and detailed data-practices rules.

Implementing agencies

Office of the Inspector General (new)Department of Human ServicesDepartment of Children, Youth, and FamiliesDepartment of HealthDepartment of EducationBureau of Criminal Apprehension

Concourse software opportunity

Statewide OIG fraud case management system covering intake
triage
investigation tracking
evidence and chain-of-custody
subpoena and inspection workflow
Anti-Fraud and Waste Bureau peace-officer case handling (effective January 1, 2028)
data-practices classification per 15E.40
cross-agency referrals to the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
BCA
AG's office
federal prosecutors

HF4074|Ch. 106·Omnibus retirement bill

3 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter106§ Art. 4

MSRS Probation and Telecommunicator Retirement subplan administration

Headline

What the law does

Establishes the new Probation and Telecommunicator Retirement subplan administered by the Minnesota State Retirement System within the general state employees retirement plan (Minn. Stat. ch. 352 additions): defines membership eligibility for state probation officers and telecommunicators, sets contribution rates, accrual, normal retirement age, optional annuity forms, postretirement adjustments, and member-self-service requirements.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota State Retirement System

Concourse software opportunity

Greenfield MSRS pension-administration module for the new Probation and Telecommunicator subplan:

membership eligibility intake
employer reporting and contribution accounting at temporary reduced rates
service-credit accrual ledger
benefit calculation with subplan-specific postretirement adjustments
optional-annuity election workflow
refund/disability/survivor benefit case management
member self-service portal
an employer portal for participating state agencies

Chapter106§ Art. 5

HF4074|Ch. 106, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

PERA Local Government Probation and Telecommunicator Retirement Plan administration

Headline

What the law does

Creates the Local Government Probation and Telecommunicator Retirement Plan administered by the Public Employees Retirement Association as new Minnesota Statutes chapter 353H: defines membership for county and municipal probation officers and telecommunicators, employer participation, contribution rates, service credit, benefit accrual, normal retirement age, optional annuity forms, PEPFF-style postretirement adjustments, and disability and survivor benefits.

Implementing agencies

Public Employees Retirement Association

Concourse software opportunity

Greenfield PERA pension-administration module for the new chapter 353H Local Government Probation and Telecommunicator Retirement Plan:

county and municipal employer onboarding
member enrollment
employer wage and contribution reporting at temporary reduced rates
service-credit accrual
benefit calculation engine with the PERA-PFF-style postretirement adjustments
optional-annuity election workflow
disability/survivor case management
member self-service portal
employer portal
integration into PERA's plan-membership and benefits accounting systems

Chapter106§ Art. 9

HF4074|Ch. 106, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Minnesota Secure Choice Retirement Program platform overhaul

Headline

What the law does

Substantially revises the Minnesota Secure Choice Retirement Program (Minn. Stat. ch. 187): updates board governance and administration, modifies employer enrollment timelines, redefines auto-enrollment notice requirements, changes annual reporting to participants and to the legislature, and refines fiduciary and investment authority for the Secure Choice Retirement Program Board and the State Board of Investment.

Implementing agencies

Secure Choice Retirement Program BoardState Board of Investment

Concourse software opportunity

Secure Choice Retirement Program platform enhancements:

revised employer onboarding and registration workflow
automated auto-enrollment notice generation and delivery to covered employees
contribution-remittance reconciliation
participant account management and beneficiary designation
revised annual reporting outputs to participants and to the legislature
board-governance and meeting management tooling for the Secure Choice Retirement Program Board
SBI fiduciary reporting integration

HF4138|Ch. 111·STOP Harms to Minors by Social Media Platforms Act and student social media use regulation

Chapter111§ 1, 2, 3, 4

AG STOP Act minor-harm enforcement and disclosure portal

Headline

What the law does

Establishes the STOP Harms to Minors by Social Media Platforms Act (Minn. Stat. ch. 325O) banning addictive feeds, dark patterns, and overnight notifications for minor users; bars sale of minors' personal data; requires Attorney General enforcement with a public reporting portal, and imposes new district-level mobile-device and social media policy and reporting obligations under Minn. Stat. 121A.32.

Implementing agencies

Office of the Attorney GeneralMinnesota Department of EducationSchool districts and charter schools

Concourse software opportunity

AG-operated public complaint and enforcement portal for the new STOP Act covering social media platforms with Minnesota minor users:

intake for design-feature complaints (addictive feeds, dark patterns, overnight push notifications)
platform-disclosure of age-estimation and parental-controls compliance
civil-penalty case management
a public dashboard of enforcement outcomes

Companion MDE compliance tooling for districts and charter schools to file the new annual social-media-and-mobile-device-policy and incident reports under 121A.32.

HF3825|Ch. 115·Health occupations licensing modernization

Chapter115§ Art. 3

Statewide massage therapy and Asian bodywork registration program

Headline

What the law does

Massage therapy and Asian bodywork

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Health

Concourse software opportunity

Creates Minnesota's first statewide registration program for massage therapists and Asian bodywork therapists under new sections 148.636 to 148.6377
with BCA/FBI criminal background checks
a Massage Therapy Advisory Council
fee schedule
complaint and disciplinary procedures
title protection
cross-references prohibiting suspended registrants from practicing as unlicensed CAM providers under chapter 146A. Requires MDH to stand up a new registry
online application/renewal portal
background-check integration
rulemaking
enforcement workflow
funded by $147,000 in FY 2027 ramping to $1.8M annually

HF4252|Ch. 116·Higher education omnibus

Chapter116§ Sec. 66

Minnesota State automated identity verification platform

Headline

What the law does

Appropriates $3,000,000 in FY2027 to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities for acquisition, implementation, support, and maintenance of automated identity verification systems to combat enrollment fraud, available until June 30, 2029, and subjects any related contract to the Minnesota Statutes section 13.05, subdivision 11, data-handling requirements.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Concourse software opportunity

Enterprise automated identity verification platform across all 33 Minnesota State institutions:

document and biometric identity proofing at application and enrollment
liveness detection
integration with the Integrated Statewide Record System and the financial aid awarding pipeline
fraud signal scoring
registrar-facing case-management dashboard
reporting on detected and prevented enrollment fraud

HF2433|Ch. 117·Education finance and anonymous threat reporting systems

Chapter117§ 8

DPS-HSEM anonymous threat reporting school grants and BCA threat assessment capacity

Headline

What the law does

Appropriates $4,000,000 in FY27 from the general fund to the Department of Public Safety, Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, for grants to schools to develop, purchase, implement, operate, and maintain anonymous threat reporting systems, with grants capped at $10,000 per school district or cooperative unit and $2,500 per charter school, Tribal contract school, or nonpublic school; awards must cover all geographic regions of the state, may be made in multiple rounds, may fund staff compensation (including responders), and the Minnesota School Safety Center must report to the legislature by each February 15 on recipients and uses. Separately appropriates $1,000,000 in FY27 to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension for staffing and operating costs related to threat assessment and investigations. Both are onetime appropriations available until June 30, 2029.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public Safety - Division of Homeland Security and Emergency ManagementMinnesota School Safety CenterBureau of Criminal Apprehension

Concourse software opportunity

Grant administration platform for the $4M school grants:

multi-round applicant intake for districts, cooperative units, charter schools, Tribal contract schools, and nonpublic schools
per-applicant cap enforcement ($10K and $2.5K)
geographic distribution tracking
reimbursement and grantee reporting feeding the Minnesota School Safety Center's annual legislative report

Strong sales channel for anonymous threat reporting vendors and training providers helping eligible schools scope, justify, and deploy systems against the per-school caps before the appropriation lapses June 30, 2029. The companion $1M BCA appropriation drives demand for behavioral threat assessment training, multidisciplinary-team coordination tooling (school administrators, behavioral health, social services, community/faith partners), and investigative case management aligned to the new active/inactive data classification.

SF3432|Ch. 118·Capitol, judicial, and public safety security modernization

Chapter118§ Art. 1 Sec. 9, Art. 1 Sec. 10, Art. 1 Sec. 12, Art. 2 Sec. 10, Art. 2 Sec. 11, Art. 2 Sec. 12

DPS legislative services unit threat-assessment, protection, and reimbursement platform

Headline

What the law does

Creates new Minn. Stat. 299E.10 (Art. 2 Sec. 10) establishing a legislative services unit within Capitol Security under State Patrol supervision to identify, assess, investigate, and mitigate threats to legislators' life or safety, prioritize threats by referral source, coordinate personal security and protection with the State Patrol, local law enforcement, the sergeants-at-arms, and the Minnesota Fusion Center, maintain a statewide threat-matrix protocol, offer security orientation and training to newly elected legislators within 21 days of taking office, and operate a reimbursement process for local law enforcement assistance; establishes the Security Services Task Force (Sec. 11) to advise the commissioner on unit implementation, expiring June 30, 2027; requires a December 15, 2027 implementation report (Sec. 12); funds the unit with $1,736,000 FY26 within Capitol Security, $100,000 FY27 for the task force (Art. 1 Sec. 9), $1,467,000 FY27 to the senate and $2,933,000 FY27 to the house for reimbursements under subd. 3(g) (Art. 1 Sec. 10), and $1,012,000 FY27 to BCA for staffing and operating costs related to threat assessment and investigation in coordination with the unit (Art. 1 Sec. 12).

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyMinnesota State PatrolBureau of Criminal ApprehensionMinnesota Fusion CenterMinnesota SenateMinnesota House of Representatives

Concourse software opportunity

End-to-end legislative services unit operations platform:

threat intake and prioritization workflow (emergency-services requests, leadership referrals from house and senate majority and minority leaders, individual member referrals, and unit-identified threats)
threat-assessment case management with BCA credibility consultation and explicit subject and referrer status communication (estimate, analysis, recommendations, intended actions)
personal security and protection assignment with State Patrol
sergeants-at-arms
Fusion Center
local law enforcement
statewide threat-matrix protocol authoring and distribution
newly-elected-member 21-day security orientation scheduler
mutual-aid agreements and reimbursement settlement to local law enforcement with eligible-cost validation
senate and house reimbursement ledgers for the FY27 onetime appropriations
BCA threat-investigation coordination
Security Services Task Force secretariat (membership ledger, chapter 13D meeting administration, recommendation voting under the four-of-six legislative-member supermajority rule, and February 1, 2027 joint commissioner and task force report)

HF4591|Ch. 119·State government operations omnibus

Chapter119§ Art. 2 Sec. 8

Statewide grantee fraud risk rating platform

Headline

What the law does

Amends Minn. Stat. 16B.97 subd. 4 to require the commissioner of administration's general grants management policies to include a grantee fraud risk rating system with corresponding grants management requirements informed by vendor risk management principles; effective February 1, 2028.

Implementing agencies

Department of AdministrationOffice of Grants Management

Concourse software opportunity

Statewide grantee fraud risk rating platform:

vendor-risk-management style intake and scoring of grant applicants and grantees
tier-based grants management requirements applied across executive agencies
risk-tier dashboards
exception handling and override audit trails
a delivery roadmap aligned to the February 1
2028 effective date

SF334|Ch. 120·Human Services Systems Modernization Fund

5 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter120§ Sec. 3

MNIT modernization fund accounting, portfolio, and annual report platform

Headline

What the law does

Creates new Minn. Stat. 16E.50 establishing the human services systems modernization fund and its eligible-use rules; restricts the fund to multiyear modernization of major eligibility, enrollment, case management, claims, provider enrollment, licensing, child care, child support, assessment, and service-delivery systems plus shared infrastructure (integration layers, APIs, identity management, data exchange); requires MNIT to maintain a multiyear modernization plan by March 1, 2027 and submit annual reports starting February 1, 2027 covering fund balances, project status, federal financial participation, legacy systems decommissioned, and measurable outcomes.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota IT ServicesDepartment of Human ServicesDepartment of Children, Youth, and Families

Concourse software opportunity

MNIT-administered modernization fund accounting and portfolio platform:

fund-balance ledger across appropriated and federal/interagency receipts
encumbrance gating that requires advisory-council consultation before any obligation
project-level eligibility validation against the seven categories of authorized uses (eligibility/case management, enterprise architecture and integration layers, legacy retirement, statewide shared infrastructure, data modernization and program integrity, interoperability, and automation/ML/predictive analytics)
structured authoring and maintenance of the statewide multiyear modernization plan (system inventory, sequencing, federal-FFP assumptions, advance planning documents, enterprise-architecture standards, planned legacy migrations)
automated generation of the February 1 annual report (fund balances, project status and risk, legacy decommissions, processing-time and payment-error outcomes)

Chapter120§ Sec. 7

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

County and Tribal human services IT modernization grants and shared services

Headline

What the law does

Sec. 7 appropriates $10,000,000 in FY27 from the general fund to the commissioner of information technology services to update information technology systems used by counties and federally recognized Indian Tribes located in Minnesota to administer human services programs, with thirteen detailed categories of eligible uses (shared data and reporting tools, workflow automation, participant/provider/worker-facing functionality, UI improvements and worker portals to replace character-based screens, MNbenefits improvements, eligibility/claims/program-integrity functionality, integration tools and middleware, AI and automation tools, and continuity-of-operations support).

Implementing agencies

Minnesota IT ServicesCountiesTribal Nations

Concourse software opportunity

MNIT-administered county and Tribal human services IT modernization program funded by the $10M Sec. 7 appropriation:

applicant intake from counties and Tribal Nations under the thirteen statutory eligible-use categories
shared data and analytics/reporting tooling for county and Tribal human services administration
workflow automation with electronic forms/signatures/notices/document management/case routing/verification
worker and participant portals (secure messaging, document upload, electronic notices, application and benefit status tracking, account management) that replace character-based screens
MNbenefits application/renewal/verification improvements
eligibility/case-administration/income-verification/identity-matching/service-authorization/claims/payment-accuracy modules
reusable integration tools and APIs/middleware/identity management/secure data exchange
AI and process automation/predictive analytics tooling with the statutory privacy and program-integrity guardrails
scalability gating that blocks duplicative single-county solutions in favor of statewide/modular ones
a transfer mechanism to sweep unencumbered FY27 funds back to the modernization fund as of June 30
2031

Chapter120§ Sec. 10(f)

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MAXIS green-screen replacement

Headline

What the law does

Sec. 10(f) appropriates $3,878,000 in FY27 (with FY28 base $1,732,000 and FY29 base $1,004,000) from the modernization fund to the commissioner of CYF to replace the MAXIS green screens.

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesDepartment of Human Services

Concourse software opportunity

Greenfield replacement (or modern UI overlay) of the MAXIS character-based green-screen caseworker interface used for cash, SNAP, Medical Assistance, and child care eligibility:

caseworker-facing web UI with role-based access
structured search and case-list views
action-oriented workflows aligned to the underlying MAXIS transactions
accessibility compliance
a progressive migration plan that retires the 3270 terminal experience while the legacy MAXIS core continues to run beneath the new UI through the Sec. 10(a) integration layer

Chapter120§ Sec. 10(g)

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MAXIS rules engine

Headline

What the law does

Sec. 10(g) appropriates $11,914,000 in FY27 (the largest single line in the bill, with $9,042,000 available until June 30, 2029, FY28 base $2,264,000, FY29 base $1,240,000) from the modernization fund to the commissioner of CYF to develop a rules engine to improve MAXIS automation and minimize manual workarounds.

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesDepartment of Human Services

Concourse software opportunity

Greenfield rules engine that codifies the eligibility business rules currently embedded in MAXIS programs and caseworker manual workarounds:

versioned rule sets aligned with statute and federal regulation
deployment to MAXIS through the Sec. 10(a) integration layer and to the Sec. 10(d) secure applicant portal so the same rule set drives both worker- and applicant-initiated determinations
a simulation and regression-testing environment that lets CYF model proposed policy changes against historical caseloads before production deployment
audit-grade lineage from each determination to the rule version that produced it

Chapter120§ Sec. 13

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MNIT cross-agency fraud prevention, identity, and verification platform

Headline

What the law does

Sec. 13 appropriates $15,000,000 in FY27 (the second-largest line in the bill) from the general fund to the commissioner of information technology services for technology modernization to advance fraud prevention and detection by improving data sharing between agencies, utilizing modern analytics, and enhancing security, identity authentication, and verification capabilities for state services; available until June 30, 2031.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota IT ServicesDepartment of Human ServicesDepartment of Children, Youth, and FamiliesDepartment of RevenueDepartment of Employment and Economic Development

Concourse software opportunity

MNIT-led cross-agency fraud-prevention and identity platform funded by the $15M Sec. 13 appropriation:

shared identity proofing and step-up authentication for state services
agency-to-agency data-sharing infrastructure with consent
purpose
audit logging that satisfies state and federal data-privacy law
analytics workbench that ingests benefit
wage
tax
provider data to surface anomaly and pattern matches across DHS
CYF
DOR
DEED
investigator worklist and case management with outcomes tracking
security and verification capabilities (device, document, biometric) that downstream programs (MAXIS, METS, MNbenefits, the Sec. 10(d) applicant portal, the Sec. 7 county/Tribal systems) consume

SF4476|Ch. 121·Continuity of care, long-term care, behavioral health, and EVV omnibus

5 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter121§ Art. 1

Statewide continuity-of-care framework and complex-transition planning

Headline

What the law does

Continuity of care

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesDepartment of HealthCountiesManaged Care OrganizationsTribal Governments

Concourse software opportunity

New Minn. Stat. 256B.045 and 256B.046 create a statewide continuity-of-care framework with mandatory 30-day provider notification
lead-agency duties
complex-transition planning when Medicaid providers face administrative action or operational events (insolvency, receivership, bankruptcy, abandonment). DHS must build and maintain a public dashboard
stand up a continuity-of-care team
publish transition-plan templates. Drives demand for the dashboard platform
transition-plan tooling
displaced-recipient placement systems
provider warm-handoff workflows

Chapter121§ Art. 6

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Carceral targeted case management and MA coverage for detained individuals

Headline

What the law does

Reentry services for justice-involved individuals

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesDepartment of CorrectionsCounty JailsTribal Correctional Facilities

Concourse software opportunity

New Minn. Stat. 256B.0618 and 256B.0619 (effective Jan. 1, 2028 or upon federal approval) extend medical assistance to conditionally released inmates (halfway house, electronic surveillance) and authorize carceral targeted case management for justice-involved individuals up to 30/90 days prerelease and 180 days postrelease
including assessments
comprehensive care plans
warm handoffs
consultation. Drives community MH/SUD provider buildout
county/Tribal case-management workflows
reentry-nonprofit contracting
care-management software supporting justice-involved populations

Chapter121§ Art. 7, Art. 8

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

245A.044 licensure for ARMHS, CTSS, crisis response, and CCBHC services

Headline

What the law does

Behavioral health licensure restructure

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesARMHS ProvidersCTSS ProvidersCrisis Response ProvidersCCBHCs

Concourse software opportunity

New Minn. Stat. 245A.044 (effective Jan. 1, 2028) requires providers of ARMHS (245I.22)
CTSS/day treatment (245I.30/31)
crisis response services (245I.24)
CCBHC services (245I.17) to obtain a chapter 245A license
transitioning from 245I.011 certification. Phased applications open July 1
2027 with Medicaid disenrollment for nonapplicants within six months. 245A.10 sets $2,100 and $4,200 application fees
including for CCBHCs. Drives major licensure-consultant demand
245A workflow tooling
provider readiness work

Chapter121§ Art. 10

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

EVV program expansion to new services and aggregator infrastructure

Headline

What the law does

Electronic visit verification

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesEVV VendorsHome Health AgenciesPCA and CFSS ProvidersManaged Care Organizations

Concourse software opportunity

Significantly rewrites Minn. Stat. 256B.073 to define 'data aggregator,' state-provided EVV system
third-party EVV vendor
manual visit
verification methods
expands EVV scope beyond PCA/CFSS/home health to adult companion services
adult day services
ARMHS
ACT
EIDBI
integrated community supports
NEMT
recovery peer support
hourly/minute-based waiver services
other federally required HCBS. Conforms 256B.0625 Subd. 17 so EVV records satisfy NEMT documentation requirements. Drives major EVV platform
aggregator/integration
provider implementation opportunity

Chapter121§ Art. 12

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Prepayment review and managed-care postpayment review vendor contracts

Headline

What the law does

Program integrity technology

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesDepartment of Human Services Office of Inspector GeneralManaged Care Organizations

Concourse software opportunity

Funds $2.5M in FY2027 for ongoing prepayment claims-analysis technology and $4M for a competitively awarded prepayment-review technology vendor contract building on existing claims edits
prior-authorization criteria
refined analytics for fraud detection
with the OIG base including $30M per year in FY2028-29 for a competitively awarded MCO postpayment-review vendor contract. Major procurement opportunity for payment-integrity
AI/ML fraud-detection
audit-recovery vendors

SF4401|Ch. 123·Cannabis industry regulation modifications

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter123§ Art. 1

Restructure of cannabis, hemp, and event organizer licensing with endorsements

Headline

What the law does

Cannabis licensing and endorsements

Implementing agencies

Office of Cannabis Management

Concourse software opportunity

Comprehensive overhaul of cannabis license categories and endorsements:

separate endorsement applications for cultivation
cannabis/hemp extraction and concentration
artificially derived cannabinoid creation
edible cannabinoid product handling
consumer products
retail
cannabis flower packaging
internal/external transport
medical cannabis cultivation/manufacturer/retail/delivery. Adds a microbusiness-to-mezzobusiness and mezzobusiness-to-macrobusiness reclassification petition pathway with social-equity parity
updates ownership disqualifications and true-party-of-interest limits (including 33% ownership of up to four social equity entities)
expands social equity to macrobusinesses
restructures cannabis event organizer licensing with per-event site registration and labor peace attestation
adds a $750 temporary cannabis event application fee. Drives OCM application and endorsement platform redesign
license intake
reclassification workflow build

Chapter123§ Art. 2

SF4401|Ch. 123, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Establishment of cannabis macrobusiness license

Headline

What the law does

Cannabis macrobusiness license

Implementing agencies

Office of Cannabis Management

Concourse software opportunity

Creates the new cannabis macrobusiness license replacing the medical cannabis combination business. OCM must convert existing medical cannabis combination business licenses and applications to macrobusiness licenses by January 1, 2027, and may issue no more than eight macrobusiness licenses before January 1, 2030. Authorizes up to 38,000 sq ft indoor canopy or one acre outdoor cultivation (with incremental 2,000 to 3,000 sq ft renewals), up to 90,000 lbs manufacturing input pending rule, and up to eight retail locations with at least three in high medical need areas when operating more than five. Fees:

$10,000 application
$20,000 initial
$70,000 renewal. Effective January 1
2027

Drives OCM macrobusiness conversion and licensing/renewal workflows.

HF4188|Ch. 124·Commerce policy omnibus

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter124§ Art. 1 Sec. 12, Art. 1 Sec. 13, Art. 1 Sec. 14, Art. 1 Sec. 15, Art. 1 Sec. 16, Art. 1 Sec. 17, Art. 1 Sec. 18

New comprehensive mortgage servicing standards under section 58.131

Headline

What the law does

Residential mortgage loan servicing standards

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Enacts new Minn. Stat. 58.131 imposing comprehensive servicing standards on residential mortgage servicers covering servicing-transfer and loss-mitigation continuity, prompt payment crediting and suspense account notices, fee assessment timing and disclosure, third-party provider oversight policies, escrow administration and annual reserve notices, borrower information request and complaint handling timelines, fair-dealing duties (including foreclosure-alternative consideration and affordable modification structuring), and required notice channels and document-receipt tracking
amends 58.06, 58.14, and 58.18 to expand application disclosures, conform complaint procedures and recordkeeping, and remove the bank/credit union exemption when a chapter 58 servicer is in the chain. Drives substantial compliance program, policy-and-procedure drafting, technology, vendor oversight, training, and borrower communications work for any servicer or subservicer touching Minnesota residential mortgage loans

Chapter124§ Art. 1 Sec. 26, Art. 1 Sec. 27, Art. 1 Sec. 28, Art. 1 Sec. 29, Art. 1 Sec. 30, Art. 1 Sec. 31, Art. 1 Sec. 32

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

New chapter 59E Rental Home Marketplace Guarantees Act regulating short-term-rental damage guarantees

Headline

What the law does

Rental home marketplace guarantees

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Creates new Minn. Stat. chapter 59E ('Rental Home Marketplace Guarantees Act') establishing a registration, disclosure, reimbursement insurance, claims-handler training, and consumer protection framework for rental home marketplaces (and their affiliates) that offer damage guarantees to property hosts
requires that every guarantee be backed by a reimbursement insurance policy from a Minnesota-authorized or surplus-lines insurer, prescribes mandatory consumer disclosures including a 'not an insurance contract' notice and a 90-day direct-claim notice, prohibits false or misleading marketing, and gives the commissioner enforcement authority under chapters 46 and 60A. Drives registration, contract drafting, insurer placement, marketplace UX and disclosure, and claims-handler training work for any short-term rental platform or affiliate operating in Minnesota

SF4612|Ch. 127·Health, CYF, and human services policy and supplemental appropriations

Chapter127§ Art. 3 Sec. 7, Art. 3 Sec. 8, Art. 3 Sec. 9, Art. 3 Sec. 10, Art. 3 Sec. 11, Art. 3 Sec. 16, Art. 3 Sec. 17, Art. 18 Sec. 3

Hennepin Healthcare System stabilization payments and governance reset

Headline

What the law does

Hospital finance

Implementing agencies

Department of HealthHennepin CountyHennepin Healthcare System, Inc.

Concourse software opportunity

Directs $50,000,000 in FY2026 and $54,950,000 in FY2027 in direct stabilization payments to Hennepin Healthcare System to avoid HCMC closure, restructures board qualifications (75% hospital/finance/legal/health-equity expertise) and county financial oversight authority, requires board reconstitution by January 15, 2027, and imposes comprehensive financial-analysis, payer-mix, staffing, and capital reporting
creates work for governance consultants, healthcare CFO advisors, organizational design firms, and capital/IT roadmap providers supporting HCMC

HF2438|Ch. 128·Omnibus tax bill

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter128§ Art. 1 Sec. 1, Art. 1 Sec. 2, Art. 1 Sec. 3, Art. 1 Sec. 30, Art. 1 Sec. 31

Update Internal Revenue Code conformity to May 1, 2026

Headline

What the law does

Federal conformity

Implementing agencies

Department of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Advances Minnesota's IRC conformity date from May 1
2023 to May 1
2026
incorporating Public Law 119-21 (OBBBA) for individual income
corporate franchise
property tax refund
estate tax purposes with mostly retroactive federal effective dates. Tax software vendors
return preparers
corporate tax departments must re-engineer Minnesota schedules to handle new additions and subtractions for 529 plans
qualified transportation fringe
opportunity zone gains
rural/agricultural loan interest
fish-boat business meals
Sinai Peninsula combat zone pay

Chapter128§ Art. 2 Sec. 10, Art. 2 Sec. 14, Art. 2 Sec. 18

HF2438|Ch. 128, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Establish state direct free electronic filing system for individual income tax returns

Headline

What the law does

Direct free filing

Implementing agencies

Department of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Codifies a new Minnesota Statutes section 289A.081 requiring the commissioner to stand up a state-run direct free filing system
with no income limits
available for tax years beginning after December 31
2026
supporting marriage penalty
education
child and working family
dependent care
student loan
renter's credits. Extends the tax filing modernization account through June 30
2029
appropriates $2.3 million in FY 2027 with a $3.5 million base in FY 2028 and 2029. Major procurement opportunity for filing-system vendors (who may not also offer paid MN preparation) and significant competitive shift for commercial tax preparation industry

HF719|Ch. 130·Capital investment / 2026 bonding bill

5 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter130§ Art. 4 Sec. 1, Art. 4 Sec. 2

Temporary vehicle registration tax reduction

Headline

What the law does

Transportation

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyDepartment of RevenueDepartment of Transportation

Concourse software opportunity

For registration periods on or after January 1
2027 and on or before December 31
2027
the commissioner of public safety must calculate the registration tax under Minn. Stat. 168.013
subd. 1a using reduced rates of 1.25% (paragraph (a), clause (1)) and 1.285% (clause (2)) instead of the statutory rates. Reduced-rate amounts are disregarded for purposes of subd. 1a
paragraph (g). Invoices must include a notice explaining the reduction and the dollar difference. A onetime $254,000,000 transfer in FY2027 from the general fund to the highway user tax distribution fund backfills the lost revenue

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 27, Art. 1 Sec. 28, Art. 1 Sec. 29

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Bond sale authorization, cancellations, and debt service schedule

Headline

What the law does

Capital investment

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Management and Budget

Concourse software opportunity

Authorizes the commissioner of management and budget to sell and issue up to $1,183,585,000 of state general obligation bonds for the bond proceeds fund and up to $87,350,000 from the bond proceeds account in the state transportation fund. Cancels prior bond appropriations totaling over $70.9M (including $62,372,000 from Laws 2023, ch. 72, art. 1, sec. 19, subd. 3) with corresponding bond sale authorization reductions, and caps biennium-ending transfers from the general fund to the state bond fund at $1,184,495,000.

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 24

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Public Facilities Authority water infrastructure appropriations

Headline

What the law does

Water infrastructure

Implementing agencies

Public Facilities AuthorityPollution Control AgencyDepartment of Health

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $409,012,000 to the Public Facilities Authority
including $19M to match federal clean water and drinking water revolving fund capitalization grants
$56M for the Water Infrastructure Funding Program ($26M wastewater / $30M drinking water under Minn. Stat. 446A.072)
$30M for Point Source Implementation Grants (446A.073)
$15M for Lead Service Line Replacement (446A.077)
$17M for the Emerging Contaminants Grant Program (446A.082)
plus more than $270M in named municipal grants for water
sewer
stormwater projects in dozens of cities including Hastings ($17.5M PFAS treatment)
Rochester ($13.224M sanitary sewer expansion)
St. Paul ($13M West 7th Street)
Minneapolis ($12.36M water main relining)
the North Zumbro Sanitary Sewer District ($12M regional WWTF)

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 16, Art. 3 Sec. 1, Art. 3 Sec. 3

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Department of Transportation capital appropriations and project modifications

Headline

What the law does

Transportation

Implementing agencies

Department of Transportation

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $176,316,000 to the commissioner of transportation
including $50M for the Local Road Improvement Program (Minn. Stat. 174.52, with $3M for township road grants)
$25M for the Local Bridge Replacement Program (174.50)
$1M each for Highway Rail Grade Crossings and Safe Routes to School (174.40)
32 named local interchange
road
runway grants (Anoka County TH 65, Dakota County CSAH 50/I-35, Freeport I-94, Karlstad airport Phase 3, Olmsted County US 14, Pope County 210th Ave., Stillwater Washington Ave., Waconia TH 5, Washington County 19A, and more). Article 3 extends the Red Wing rail grade separation appropriation through 2030 and broadens the Washington County TH 36/Lake Elmo Avenue interchange grant to also allow grants to the cities of Lake Elmo or Grant

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 23

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

DEED community infrastructure and economic development grants

Headline

What the law does

Economic development

Implementing agencies

Department of Employment and Economic Development

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $135,479,000 to the commissioner of employment and economic development
including $2M each for the Greater Minnesota Business Development Infrastructure (Minn. Stat. 116J.431)
Innovative Business Development Infrastructure (116J.435)
Transportation Economic Development Infrastructure (116J.436) grant programs
plus more than 25 named local projects including $40M for the Roy Wilkins Auditorium renovation in St. Paul
$10M for the Mahnomen skilled nursing facility
$8.85M for the Duluth Mission Engagement Center
$7.5M for the Brooklyn Park Northwest Metro Regional Athletic Facility
$5M for Hennepin County's Avivo facilities
$5M each for Plymouth City Center and St. Paul's CHS Field/Latino Museum/St. Cloud Connection projects
$4.9M for DECC accessibility
$4M each for the Hormel Bioimaging Center
Shakopee Innovation Hub
South St. Paul aquatic facility
others

Strong

Strong opportunities(88 across 36 chapters)

Substantial new workflows, registries, or compliance regimes a single agency must stand up.

SF3602|Ch. 45·Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act

Chapter45§ 1-13

Electronic estate planning execution and retention platform

Strong

What the law does

Creates new Minn. Stat. ch. 533 giving legal effect to electronic nontestamentary estate planning documents (trusts, POAs, advance directives, POLST, disclaimers, antenuptial agreements, mental health declarations) and their electronic signatures, electronic witnessing, remote electronic presence, electronic notarization, retention of electronic originals, and certified paper copies.

Implementing agencies

Department of CommerceMinnesota Judicial Branch

Concourse software opportunity

Platform to execute and store electronic nontestamentary estate planning documents (trusts, POAs, advance directives, POLST, antenuptial agreements) under new ch. 533:

identity proofing
audio-video electronic-presence witnessing
e-signature workflows
integration with remote online notarization
tamper-evident long-term retention per 533.17
certified-paper-copy generation under 533.18

SF2511|Ch. 48·Liquor licensing omnibus and assisted-living/nursing-home alcohol service

Chapter48§ 2

340A.4015 facility liquor-service notice-of-intent intake

Strong

What the law does

Authorizes many municipal/venue-specific on-sale licenses (museums, U of M, MSU-Mankato, food halls, Brainerd, Springfield, Lake of the Woods, Douglas County food trucks, etc.); updates trade-practice rules; creates a new license-exempt regime (340A.4015) for nursing homes, boarding care, and assisted living facilities to serve liquor to residents and guests after a notice of intent to DPS.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyDepartment of Health

Concourse software opportunity

Statewide DPS intake portal for nursing homes
boarding care homes
assisted living facilities to submit the new 340A.4015 notice of intent
cross-checked against MDH licensure roster
with inspection scheduling
corrective-action plans
mandatory staff training tracking
enforcement case management routed to the commissioner of health for unsafe-service or underage-access referrals

HF3741|Ch. 49·Veterans / POW/MIA family and Tribal college educational assistance overhaul

Chapter49§ 1-6

MDVA veterans education benefits management platform

Strong

What the law does

Restructures MDVA Surviving Spouses and Dependents educational benefit toward eligible children and spouses (including POW/MIA dependents), recognizes Tribally controlled colleges as eligible institutions, requires tuition-and-fees waivers at MN public postsecondary institutions, requires annual September 30 institutional reports, and requires every public/accredited private institution to publish a veterans education benefits webpage.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Veterans AffairsOffice of Higher EducationMinnesota State

Concourse software opportunity

End-to-end MDVA platform:

applicant intake for eligible children, spouses, and veterans (including POW/MIA dependents) with proof-of-service, residency, SAP, and federal-benefit-exhaustion uploads
case-review/approval with $750 stipend payment tracking
an institution portal for Minnesota State, U of M, and Tribally controlled colleges to confirm enrollment, post tuition-and-fee waivers, and submit annual September 30 reports
a compliance dashboard tracking which public/private institutions have published the required veterans education benefits webpage

HF4118|Ch. 56·Credit union share insurance via private guaranty corporations

Chapter56§ 1-38

Credit union share guaranty corporation approval, examination, and registry system

Strong

What the law does

Authorizes MN credit unions to obtain share insurance from a commissioner-approved private guaranty corporation as an alternative to NCUA; min coverage greater of $250k or NCUA-equivalent; gives the commissioner examination and assessment authority; requires approval before voluntary termination of share insurance; updates many conforming statutes.

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Share guaranty corporation oversight system at Commerce:

approval workflow (application, financials, due diligence, decision) under new 52.001 subd. 1a and 52.24 subd. 1a
examination scheduling, workpapers, and findings tracking with assessment-fee calculation, invoicing, and posting to the financial institutions revenue account
credit union enrollment and voluntary-termination approval workflow
public registry of approved guaranty corporations and the credit unions they insure with member-notification artifacts and downstream conformance to references throughout chapters 11A, 17, 46A, 53B, 60A, 67A, 79A, 80A, 82, 118A, 123B, 142F, 149A, 325K, 354B, 356, 356A, 366, 385, 424B, 427, and 524

HF1410|Ch. 59·Correctional and peace officer disciplinary procedure updates

Chapter59§ 1-10

Correctional and peace-officer internal affairs case management platform

Strong

What the law does

Brings correctional officer discipline procedures (241.026) up to par with peace officer procedures (626.89): signed written complaint, witness-list/statement and investigative-report exchange, session length and rest periods, off-shift pay, mandatory electronic recording, union/attorney representation, private cause of action against the political subdivision or state agency.

Implementing agencies

Department of CorrectionsLocal correctional and law enforcement agenciesPOST Board

Concourse software opportunity

Internal-affairs / officer-discipline case management system for DOC and local correctional and law enforcement agencies covering both 241.026 (correctional officers) and 626.89 (peace officers):

signed-complaint intake (subd. 4a)
structured discovery exchange (witness lists, statements, investigative report) with confidential-informant redaction (subd. 4b)
shift-aware session scheduling with reasonable-duration tracking, rest periods, and off-shift overtime-pay flags (subd. 4c)
secure electronic-recording capture/storage with chain of custody and transcript delivery (subd. 4d and 626.89 subd. 8)
attorney/union representation logging (subd. 4e)
downstream administrative hearing/arbitration outcomes, all producing statutory compliance evidence that protects against the new private cause of action for damages (subd. 11)

HF3827|Ch. 70·BCA reimbursements, crime data, vulnerable-adult OFPs, expungement

Chapter70§ 3, 4

Vulnerable-adult OFP registry and law-enforcement verification API in the BCA data communications network

Strong

What the law does

Reclassifies BCA grants to local law enforcement as reimbursements; updates crime data reporting to the FBI national standard; requires vulnerable-adult OFPs (609.2334) to appear in the BCA data communications network with a verification system for law enforcement access; refines automatic expungement (adds an unseal-on-error process).

Implementing agencies

Bureau of Criminal ApprehensionMinnesota Judicial Branch

Concourse software opportunity

Extend the 299C.46 data communications network so vulnerable-adult orders for protection issued under 609.2334 are queryable in real time alongside chapter 518B OFPs
harassment restraining orders
no-contact orders. Build a court-administrator submission workflow that forwards each order and continuance to the local LEA and the lead investigative agency within 24 hours
plus a verification API for officers in the field
offender-photo upload and validation
13.02 private-data classification controls (effective January 1, 2027)

HF3875|Ch. 71·Online court notices; perpetual restitution judgments

Chapter71§ 1, 2

Court public notices publishing portal on the Judicial Branch website

Strong

What the law does

Lets the Judicial Branch publish court notices, summonses, orders, and process on its official website when no suitable local newspaper exists; clarifies that docketed restitution judgments do not expire; extends the Supreme Court Council on Child Protection.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Judicial Branch

Concourse software opportunity

Build the structured publishing workflow under new 484.085 that lets district courts post notices
summonses
orders
process on the Minnesota Judicial Branch's official website in substantially the same form and for the same duration that would be required in a qualified newspaper. Includes the no-qualified-local-newspaper eligibility check from amended 331A.03
county/district scoping
searchable archives
RSS/email subscriptions
a public-facing notice search satisfying the 645.11 published-notice definition

HF1606|Ch. 72·Prohibition on nudification technology

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter72§ 1

AG consumer-protection investigation and case management for nudification-tech violations

Strong

What the law does

Creates Minn. Stat. 325E.91 banning nudify sites/apps targeting identifiable individuals; private right of action, AG enforcement, civil penalties up to $500,000 per violation routed to a victim-services grant program.

Implementing agencies

Office of the Attorney General

Concourse software opportunity

Consumer-protection complaint intake and case management for alleged 325E.91 violations:

structured evidence capture (URLs, screenshots of nudified outputs, advertising/promotion captures, technical-skill exemption analysis)
investigative status tracking
civil penalty assessment up to $500,000 per unlawful access/download/use
an 8.31 enforcement docket

Includes a public-facing victim reporting portal that records identifiable-individual claims while honoring 47 U.S.C. 230 immunity boundaries.

Chapter72§ 1

HF1606|Ch. 72, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

OJP victim-services grants funded by 325E.91 civil penalties

Strong

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyOffice of Justice Programs

Concourse software opportunity

Grants management module for the Office of Justice Programs handling the dedicated funding stream from 325E.91 civil penalties (annually appropriated each July 1 from the general fund):

grantee onboarding
eligibility scoring against the six statutory categories (direct client assistance, competitive wages for direct service staff, hotel/housing supports, culturally responsive programming, prevention and restorative justice, other organizational needs)
5%-cap administration tracking
outcome reporting on services to underserved communities reflecting Minnesota's diversity

HF4075|Ch. 75·Uniform firearm-restriction procedure (transfers and compliance)

Chapter75§ 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9

Law enforcement firearm intake, supervised in-agency transfer, and inventory

Strong

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Local law enforcement agenciesCounty sheriffs

Concourse software opportunity

Sheriff/police firearm inventory and supervised-transfer module under 518B.03 subd. 2-3:

24-hour-notice scheduling for third-party transfers conducted at the agency under peace-officer supervision or in a video-surveilled safe zone
peace-officer attestation on the subject's proof of transfer
chain-of-custody capture (serial number, manufacturer, model) for permanently and temporarily transferred firearms
storage-fee billing with the 60-day abandonment trigger
certified-mail notice prior to disposal of abandoned or permanently transferred firearms
return-after-prohibiting-period workflow with state/federal eligibility checks
immunity-protected documentation of any damage or deterioration covering routine handling versus recklessness/gross negligence

SF2971|Ch. 77·Bridge suicide prevention (Kayla's HOPE Act)

Chapter77§ 1

Bridge suicide-prevention vital-statistics pipeline and candidate-bridge registry

Strong

What the law does

Requires MnDOT, with MDH, to annually obtain suicide-death data on Minnesota bridges from vital statistics, maintain a record of candidate bridges, develop best practices and railing-design criteria, and implement suicide-reduction railings on qualifying state and local bridge projects.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of TransportationMinnesota Department of Health

Concourse software opportunity

Annual MnDOT-to-MDH data-sharing pipeline under 165.16 subd. 1 ingesting vital-statistics records of bridge-related suicide deaths (with PHI handling and minimum-necessary disclosure)
keying records to MnDOT's bridge inventory
maintaining a candidate-bridge registry that supports identification of locations where suicide reduction measures may be appropriate
including longitudinal analytics that feed the methodology developed under subd. 2

HF3970|Ch. 80·Contract for deed termination for domestic abuse/sexual assault victims

Chapter80§ 1, 2

Survivor co-vendee petition and lis pendens workflow for contract-for-deed termination under 559.206

Strong

What the law does

Creates a court action allowing a co-vendee on a residential contract for deed who is a victim of domestic abuse, criminal sexual assault, sexual extortion, or harassment to petition the court to terminate the abuser's interest, supported by orders for protection, no-contact orders, law-enforcement certifications, or a sworn third-party certification.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Judicial BranchCounty recorders / registrars of titles

Concourse software opportunity

Guided intake portal for petitioner-survivors and their advocates that walks through 559.206 eligibility (six-month occupancy/payment test, abandonment by respondent)
auto-generates the summons with all 12 statutory data elements
the petition
the notice of lis pendens
the contract-for-deed termination judgment with all 16 required fields
manages service on the respondent and on vendor/lien/tax holders under the Minnesota Rules of Civil Procedure
supports the vendor's prejudice defense
pushes filings to MNCIS and the appropriate county recorder or registrar of titles via integration (effective July 1, 2026 for contracts for deed entered into on or after that date)

HF3769|Ch. 84·Corrections SUD treatment and mental health beds

Chapter84§ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Correctional behavioral-health 245G compliance and mental health unit case management platform

Strong

What the law does

Clarifies that all DOC substance use disorder programs (not just residential) for committed adults and state-operated juvenile correctional facilities must comply with chapter 245G community standards (or DOC/DHS alternative equivalents); allows DOC to operate more than one adult mental health unit and to use it for short-term assessment, evaluation, and stabilization in addition to long-term care.

Implementing agencies

Department of CorrectionsDepartment of Human ServicesDirect Care and Treatment

Concourse software opportunity

Correctional behavioral-health case management system tracking 245G compliance per program (staffing ratios, treatment plans, assessments, documentation) across all DOC adult SUD programs and state-operated juvenile correctional facilities (chapter 2960 correctional program services certification)
managing transfers in and out of multiple DOC adult mental health units (including short-term assessment, evaluation, and stabilization episodes)
handling chapter 253B commitments with end-of-sentence transfer workflows to Direct Care and Treatment hospitals

HF4063|Ch. 85·School bus USDOT numbers, first aid kits, training use

Chapter85§ 3, 4, 5

Statewide school bus USDOT registration, inspection, and equipment compliance platform

Strong

What the law does

Requires every district/operator to obtain a USDOT number tied to 169.451 inspections; NSTSP-compliant first aid kits in 2027+ buses, and all type III by Jan 1, 2030; first aid kit and body-fluids cleanup kit split; authorizes use of school buses on public roads for driver training (with stop arms and warning lights disabled).

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyDepartment of EducationDepartment of Transportation

Concourse software opportunity

Statewide school bus inspection and compliance platform that registers each bus to a USDOT number
schedules and records annual 169.451 inspections
captures inspector findings on tablet
tracks equipment compliance (first aid kit type, body fluids cleanup kit, model-year-driven NSTSP thresholds for model year 2027+ vehicles, type III deadline of January 1, 2030)
feeds a public/operator dashboard

SF856|Ch. 92·Office of the Inspector General

3 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter92§ Art. 1 Sec. 10

Anonymous public fraud-reporting tip portal and hotline

Strong

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Office of the Inspector General (new)

Concourse software opportunity

The statutorily required Identification of Fraud Reporting Tool (15E.35):

a public-facing anonymous tip portal and hotline web app where any person can report suspected fraud or misuse of public funds
with intake routing
anonymization
downstream case creation in the OIG case management system

Chapter92§ Art. 1 Sec. 7

SF856|Ch. 92, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Statewide public exclusion-list registry

Strong

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Office of the Inspector General (new)All state agencies

Concourse software opportunity

The statewide exclusion list registry mandated by 15E.25 subd. 1 clause (11):

searchable
machine-readable
with API consumption hooks so every agency can check before disbursing funds

Lists each program and individual for which the inspector general has obtained a court order to freeze or cease distribution of funds (or recommended same).

Chapter92§ Art. 1 Sec. 7, Art. 1 Sec. 19, Art. 2 Sec. 15

SF856|Ch. 92, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Interagency investigation coordination platform

Strong

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Office of the Inspector General (new)Department of Human ServicesDepartment of Children, Youth, and FamiliesDepartment of HealthDepartment of EducationBureau of Criminal Apprehension

Concourse software opportunity

Interagency investigation coordination platform implementing 15E.25 subd. 1 clause (2) and the required interagency agreements:

lead-agency designation
status sharing with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and BCA Financial Crimes and Fraud Section
alerts when a suspect appears in multiple agency programs
audit-ready cross-agency reporting
standards-compliance evaluations of each agency inspector general office

SF476|Ch. 95·Direct Care and Treatment, DHS, and health services policy omnibus

3 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter95§ Art. 8 Sec. 1, Art. 8 Sec. 4, Art. 8 Sec. 5

245D housing accounts compliance and monthly statements platform

Strong

What the law does

Sprawling HHS policy bill across Direct Care and Treatment, Department of Health, aging/disability services, behavioral health, housing and support services, vulnerable adult maltreatment, and continuity of care. Mandates per-recipient 245D housing accounts with monthly statements (new 245D.097), expanded 245D service-suspension/termination notice procedures, new data-practices and disclosure rules for DCT, restrictions on Optum's use of DHS private data, and many vulnerable-adult and behavioral-health workflow changes.

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesHCBS license holders

Concourse software opportunity

A 245D Housing Accounts compliance platform under new 245D.097 letting HCBS license holders maintain dedicated per-recipient subaccounts (separate from operating funds)
auto-generate and mail monthly statements with deposits
expenditures
balances
respond to on-demand commissioner audits
integrate with 256B.492 community-based service planning

Chapter95§ Art. 8 Sec. 2, Art. 8 Sec. 3

SF476|Ch. 95, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

245D service suspension and termination workflow tool

Strong

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesHCBS license holdersLead agencies (counties, Tribes)

Concourse software opportunity

A 245D service-suspension/termination workflow tool for license holders implementing the expanded 245D.10 subd. 3 and subd. 3a procedures:

support-team consultations
required structured notices to clients/legal representatives/case managers/commissioner
statutory timelines
appeal tracking
continuity-of-care planning when a recipient is being suspended or terminated

Chapter95§ Art. 7 Sec. 7, Art. 7 Sec. 8, Art. 7 Sec. 9, Art. 7 Sec. 10, Art. 7 Sec. 11, Art. 7 Sec. 12, Art. 7 Sec. 13, Art. 7 Sec. 14, Art. 7 Sec. 15, Art. 7 Sec. 16, Art. 7 Sec. 17, Art. 7 Sec. 18, Art. 7 Sec. 19

SF476|Ch. 95, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Vulnerable-adult maltreatment intake and case workflow modernization

Strong

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesDepartment of HealthCounties (lead investigative agencies)

Concourse software opportunity

Updated vulnerable-adult maltreatment intake and case workflows for DHS and counties implementing the rewritten 626.557 procedures:

common-entry-point routing
mandated-reporter intake (including new and amended subdivisions)
investigative tracking
civil/criminal immunity logging
disposition
advocacy access
statewide registry/disqualification updates under subd. 12b

HF3522|Ch. 96·Veterans grants, Secret War in Laos benefits, Commanders Task Force, veterans homes

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter96§ 3, 13

MDVA legislatively directed grants management system

Strong

What the law does

Establishes detailed eligibility, scoring, suspension, and annual reporting standards for legislatively directed grants administered by MDVA (new 196.055); creates a multistep eligibility process (197.448 subd. 3-4) for Secret War in Laos / SGU veterans built around VA preneed-burial determinations, a special-consideration track with affidavits/photos/letters, and contested-case appeals; adds SGU veteran designation to driver's licenses; allows temporary closure of veterans homes on a CMS termination notice; modifies state active service pay; creates the Commanders Task Force.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs

Concourse software opportunity

An MDVA grants management system implementing new 196.055:

nonprofit grantee onboarding
eligibility verification (5-year operating history, AG good standing, Form 990 review)
the new scoring rubric weighted on outcomes for veterans previously served
charitable giving ratio capture
suspension workflow for fraud/criminal investigation
recordkeeping
the annual aggregated legislative report

Chapter96§ 1, 7, 8, 9, 10

HF3522|Ch. 96, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Secret War in Laos / SGU veteran eligibility and certification portal

Strong

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Veterans AffairsDepartment of Public Safety

Concourse software opportunity

An SGU veteran eligibility portal implementing the amended 197.448 process:

applicants submit VA preneed-burial determinations
upload documents
request special-consideration review with the new two-form evidence requirements (affidavits, photos, letters)
contested-case hearing tracking
issuance/verification of certificates of eligibility (consumable by DVS for the new SGU veteran designation on driver's licenses under amended 171.07 subd. 15)

SF4760|Ch. 97·Public safety omnibus

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter97§ Art. 5 Sec. 1, Art. 5 Sec. 2, Art. 5 Sec. 3, Art. 5 Sec. 4, Art. 5 Sec. 5, Art. 5 Sec. 6, Art. 5 Sec. 7, Art. 5 Sec. 8

DOC juvenile and adult correctional facility licensing, inspection, and incident reporting platform

Strong

What the law does

Large public-safety policy bill modifying data classifications; adding case-support duties (and private-data protections) to the Office for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives and the Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls; rewriting Department of Corrections licensing for juvenile/adult community-based residential correctional facilities (new 241.011-241.013) including biennial inspections, public posting of inspection reports, mandatory 24-hour death notice and 10-day critical-incident reporting through the department's detention information system, and facility death-review teams; updating MINNCOR/PIECP wage tracking and contract profitability; adding a community supervision working group; creating a Task Force on statewide funding for ARMER public-safety radio infrastructure.

Implementing agencies

Department of Corrections

Concourse software opportunity

Expanded DOC detention information system and facility licensing/inspection platform implementing new 241.011-241.014 and amended 241.021:

biennial inspection scheduling
deficiency and correction-order workflow
conditional licensing
public-facing inspection report posting
automated 24-hour death notifications
10-day critical-incident reporting
structured death-review team documentation
security audits for state correctional facilities

Chapter97§ Art. 1 Sec. 2, Art. 1 Sec. 3, Art. 1 Sec. 18, Art. 1 Sec. 19

SF4760|Ch. 97, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MMIR and MMBWG case-support and family-communication platform

Strong

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyDepartment of Human Rights

Concourse software opportunity

Case-support and family-communication platform for the Office for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (299A.85) and the Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls (299A.90) with intake
the new private-data classifications added to 13.6905
structured family navigation through investigations
referrals
analytics on cold cases and Amber Alerts

HF1141|Ch. 100·Housing supplemental budget and policy

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter100§ Art. 1 Sec. 2

Minnesota Nice HomeShare pilot platform

Strong

What the law does

Establishes the Minnesota Nice HomeShare pilot in St. Louis County to match home-owning seniors in Lake, St. Louis, and Washington counties with adults needing housing; appropriates $150,000 to MHFA to grant to St. Louis County to operate the program, including telephone/text/video assistance, background checks with two-reference verification, employment or school-enrollment verification, application review, and rent collection and disbursement.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Housing Finance AgencySt. Louis County

Concourse software opportunity

HomeShare matching platform for the pilot:

host and renter profiles with PII protection
telephone, text-chat, and video assistance flows
background check intake with at least two reference checks per party
renter employment or school-enrollment verification
application review and approval workflow
rent collection and host disbursement with reconciliation and audit logs

Includes a county-administered grantee reporting back-end that feeds MHFA oversight.

Chapter100§ Art. 3 Sec. 5, Art. 3 Sec. 6, Art. 3 Sec. 7, Art. 3 Sec. 8, Art. 3 Sec. 9, Art. 3 Sec. 10, Art. 3 Sec. 11, Art. 3 Sec. 14

HF1141|Ch. 100, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MHFA housing development fund earnings, encumbrance, and legislative reporting dashboard

Strong

What the law does

Restructures the housing development fund: aggregates investment earnings from state appropriations, requires biennial deployment of 25% of aggregated earnings (encumbered or solicited by December 31 of each even year), expands MHFA's annual operating-costs report to differentiate state-appropriated program costs from other agency activities with audited financials, adds notification and revised-budget approval triggers if costs exceed plan, and requires MHFA to publish how it will give legislative fiscal staff remote access to its accounting subsystem.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Housing Finance AgencyMinnesota Management and Budget

Concourse software opportunity

Internal MHFA dashboard that tracks aggregated earnings on state appropriations across the housing development fund
calculates the biennial 25% deployment requirement
monitors encumbrance and solicitation milestones
surfaces operating-cost variances against the legislatively submitted budget plan
generates the expanded February 15 annual operating-costs and earnings-use report (with audited financials, FTE counts, and projected vs. actual)
automates the chairs/ranking-minority notice and Legislative Reference Library filings for transfers and overruns
exposes a read-only remote access view of the accounting subsystem to legislative fiscal staff

HF4239|Ch. 101·Campaign finance street-address redaction and lobbying disclaimers

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter101§ 4, 6, 8, 12, 13, 30

CFB website redaction and republication pipeline

Strong

What the law does

Reclassifies street addresses on reports and statements filed with the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board (including statements of economic interest) as nonpublic or private data, prohibits the Board from posting street addresses on its website, and requires the Board to remove all previously posted reports and statements filed on or after January 1, 2022, redact street addresses, and repost on a prioritized timeline (candidates first, then party units, then political committees and funds), with all 2022+ filings reposted within six months and pre-2022 filings reposted by January 1, 2028.

Implementing agencies

Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board

Concourse software opportunity

Bulk redaction and republication pipeline for the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board's public website:

ingests every prior-filed report and statement (campaign-committee, party-unit, political-committee, political-fund, independent-expenditure, ballot, statement of economic interest)
runs automated street-address detection and redaction against PDF and structured filings
applies prioritized release queues by filer type and filing date (post-2025, 2022 to 2024, pre-2022)
maintains an audit trail of every redaction and republication
produces the six-month and January 1
2028 progress reports to legislative chairs

Chapter101§ 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28

HF4239|Ch. 101, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

CFB e-filing, lobbying-disclaimer compliance, and complaint dismissal workflow

Strong

What the law does

Expands principal-campaign-committee noncampaign disbursements to cover threat assessments, guest screening, structural security devices, and security services (up to $10,000 per year) with new definitions; lets the Board chair immediately dismiss frivolous or duplicative complaints; expands lobbyist principal disclosure obligations and lobbyist-paid advertisement reporting; modernizes affidavit-of-candidacy and nominating-petition forms; modernizes campaign-material and independent-expenditure disclaimers with size, duration, and font rules including new sign-size tiers; and creates a new lobbying-material disclaimer requirement (Minn. Stat. 10A.067) for advertisements urging the public to contact officials, enforceable with a $3,000 per-principal civil penalty.

Implementing agencies

Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board

Concourse software opportunity

Enhanced CFB e-filing platform supporting the new $10,000 security-services noncampaign disbursement category (with security-services vendor attestation)
revised lobbyist and principal report schemas (paid advertisement reporting, expert witness logging)
a complaint intake/triage workflow that exposes the chair-level immediate-dismissal path with notice generation. Companion lobbying-advertisement disclaimer compliance module that ingests principal-paid ads
validates the size
font
duration
contact-info disclaimer requirements (including audiovisual and outdoor-sign tiers)
supports civil-penalty case management up to $3,000 per violation

HF3426|Ch. 104·ENRTF appropriations and DNR Community Grant Program reforms

Chapter104§ 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

DNR Community Grants management portal

Strong

What the law does

Overhauls the DNR Community Grant Program: caps trail grants at $2M and other grants at $750k, requires multi-purpose annual awards, mandates annual financial-reconciliation and fraud-prevention training for grants-management staff, requires at least one in-person unannounced monitoring visit before final payment on grants of $50k or more (sampled for smaller grants), requires preaward risk assessment per 16B.981 on smaller grants, allows advance payments only with a surety bond or approved fiscal agent, requires quarterly grantee progress reports, and provides a $28.18M one-time appropriation for the program.

Implementing agencies

Department of Natural Resources

Concourse software opportunity

DNR Community Grants management portal:

application intake
automated preaward risk assessment per Minn. Stat. 16B.981
fiscal-agent approval and surety-bond verification gating for advance payments
scheduling and logging of mandatory in-person unannounced monitoring visits before final payment
sampling logic for sub-$50k grants
financial-reconciliation worksheets
quarterly grantee progress-report capture
grant-staff annual financial-reconciliation and fraud-prevention training compliance tracking
grant-ceiling enforcement ($2M trails, $750k other) tied to the new one-time $28.18M appropriation

HF4074|Ch. 106·Omnibus retirement bill

Chapter106§ Art. 7, Art. 15

Firefighter relief association termination workflow and statewide volunteer firefighter plan account management

Strong

What the law does

Modifies the termination process for firefighter relief associations under Minn. Stat. ch. 424B (and conforming changes elsewhere); implements recommendations of the State Auditor's fire-relief-association working group; provides special legislation for Maple Plain fire department's termination of participation in the statewide volunteer firefighter plan; and makes administrative, technical, and conforming changes affecting volunteer and paid on-call firefighters across the statewide volunteer firefighter plan and the local relief associations.

Implementing agencies

Office of the State AuditorPublic Employees Retirement Association

Concourse software opportunity

Firefighter relief association termination and transfer workflow tooling for the State Auditor:

structured termination application intake
member-data validation
valuation and audit checks
transfer of assets and members to the statewide volunteer firefighter plan
a working-group recommendations tracker. Companion statewide volunteer firefighter plan account-management module at PERA for fire-department account contributions
member service-credit accrual
retirement-payment processing
special-legislation handling such as Maple Plain's departure

HF3489|Ch. 108·Educator misconduct reporting and the new grooming offense

Chapter108§ 1, 2

Law enforcement to educator licensing board notification workflow

Strong

What the law does

Requires police departments and county sheriffs to notify the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board, the Board of School Administrators, or the Minnesota State board (whichever has jurisdiction) when a teacher is criminally charged with a sex or abuse offense listed in 122A.20 subd. 1(b) or with any other offense requiring predatory-offender registration under 243.166; adds the new grooming offense to the qualifying-offense list for automatic license revocation.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyProfessional Educator Licensing and Standards BoardBoard of School AdministratorsMinnesota State Colleges and UniversitiesLocal law enforcement

Concourse software opportunity

Statewide law-enforcement-to-licensing-board notification workflow:

intake from police
sheriff
Tribal police departments of qualifying criminal charges against teachers
automated routing to PELSB
BOSA
or Minnesota State based on credential type
case tracking with the statutory 45-day decision clock once Attorney General confirms grounds
audit logging
downstream coordination with the school district employer of record

Includes integration to the BCA criminal history system for charge verification.

HF3825|Ch. 115·Health occupations licensing modernization

3 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter115§ Art. 5

Music therapist (LPMT) licensure program

Strong

What the law does

Music therapy

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Health

Concourse software opportunity

Establishes new Minnesota Statutes chapter 148H creating the Licensed Professional Music Therapist (LPMT) credential
with general/temporary/reciprocity licensure pathways tied to CBMT board certification
a Music Therapy Advisory Council
BCA/FBI background checks
fee schedule
title protection
complaint/discipline procedures effective January 1
2028. Requires MDH to stand up a new licensing system
application/renewal portal
fee collection
background-check integration
rulemaking
with $87,000 in FY 2027 funding

Chapter115§ Art. 7

HF3825|Ch. 115, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Board of Dentistry licensure and program modernization

Strong

What the law does

Dentistry

Implementing agencies

Board of Dentistry

Concourse software opportunity

Replaces 'school of dentistry/dental hygiene/dental assisting' references with 'dental education programs' throughout chapter 150A and overhauls licensure for dentists
dental therapists
dental hygienists
dental assistants
faculty dentists
resident dentists
specialty practitioners
including new credentialing
examination
fee
mobility
advanced-practice
continuing-education
discipline rules. Drives sweeping changes to Board of Dentistry application forms
online licensing portal
CE tracking
fee schedules
credential-verification workflows

Chapter115§ Art. 9

HF3825|Ch. 115, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Pharmacist prescribing authority for opioid use disorder

Strong

What the law does

Pharmacy

Implementing agencies

Board of Pharmacy

Concourse software opportunity

Authorizes pharmacists to initiate
prescribe
administer
dispense Schedule III through V controlled substances and legend drugs to treat opioid use disorder after completing federally specified OUD training and obtaining DEA registration
with documentation
patient-counseling
pharmacist-intern supervision requirements
plus a new standard-of-care discipline ground. Drives Board of Pharmacy program design
training and DEA-registration verification
prescribing-record audits
Schedule III/IV dispensing-recordkeeping changes

HF4252|Ch. 116·Higher education omnibus

4 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter116§ Sec. 5, Sec. 6, Sec. 7

Pregnant and parenting student priority registration platform

Strong

What the law does

Expands pregnant and parenting student rights at Minnesota State and private postsecondary institutions under section 135A.1582: automatic priority registration windows no later than the earliest undergraduate registration period, annual notification to all enrolled students of pregnant and parenting rights, medically necessary leave-of-absence and reasonable-modification policies, parenting-student excused absences for a child's health care, mandatory Title IX coordinator contact, and a published web information page.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota State Colleges and UniversitiesPrivate postsecondary institutionsUniversity of Minnesota

Concourse software opportunity

Pregnant and parenting student support workflow built into each institution's registration and student records system:

self-identification intake
verification of parenting/pregnancy status
automatic assignment of a priority registration window no later than the earliest undergraduate window without separate petition
leave-of-absence and reasonable-modification request routing tied to a treating health care provider's determination
automated annual student-body notification
Title IX coordinator contact directory
a public-facing rights and resources page

Chapter116§ Sec. 8, Sec. 10, Sec. 13, Sec. 14, Sec. 16, Sec. 17, Sec. 18

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

OHE consolidated student aid reporting platform

Strong

What the law does

Restructures the Office of Higher Education's consolidated annual student aid report under section 136A.053 to cover a specified list of grant and loan programs, redefines required data disaggregation (program, institution, aid year, race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, family type, other commissioner-defined factors), and folds prior standalone Intervention for College Attendance, North Star Promise, Fostering Independence, Teacher Candidate, Student Teacher, and related program reports into this single statutory report.

Implementing agencies

Office of Higher Education

Concourse software opportunity

Consolidated student aid reporting platform at OHE:

ingests award and recipient data from each covered program (136A.091, 136A.121, 136A.1215, 136A.1241, 136A.125, 136A.126, 136A.1274, 136A.1275, 136A.1465, 136A.233)
normalizes demographic and outcome fields
computes retention
completion
cumulative debt
time-to-completion metrics
generates the unified February 15 legislative deliverable disaggregated per the new statutory dimensions while retiring the legacy program-specific reports

Chapter116§ Sec. 22, Sec. 29, Sec. 44

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

OHE registered institution audit and enrollment data intake

Strong

What the law does

Establishes mandatory audit and enrollment data reporting schedules for postsecondary institutions registered under sections 136A.61 to 136A.71: required audit reports due to OHE within 30 days of issuance or nine months after fiscal year end, and enrollment data submitted either per-academic-term (for limited-start-date schools) or at least four times per year on a school-proposed schedule (for multiple or rolling start dates), with a parallel submission cadence built into license-renewal applications.

Implementing agencies

Office of Higher Education

Concourse software opportunity

Registered postsecondary institution reporting intake portal:

secure ingest for compliance and financial statement audit reports and for institutional enrollment reports on the per-term or up-to-quarterly cadence each school proposes
reminder and escalation engine enforcing the 30-day-after-issuance and nine-month-after-fiscal-year clocks
an indicator screen that feeds audit and enrollment data into the office's financial responsibility risk model

Chapter116§ Sec. 37

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Private career school license financial documentation module

Strong

What the law does

Rewrites the financial documentation private career schools must submit with initial and renewal license applications under section 136A.822 into a six-tier revenue-based table (financial statements audit report plus compliance audit at the top tier down through tax-return-only documentation under $250,000 in gross revenues), adds a two-consecutive-year rule for moving between tiers, and sets renewal submission deadlines tied to the audit issuance date or the federal tax extension.

Implementing agencies

Office of Higher Education

Concourse software opportunity

Private career school license documentation workflow:

revenue-tier classifier for each applicant and its higher-level entity using the past two fiscal years of gross revenues
document upload portal with tier-specific validation (financial statements audit report, compliance audit report, compilation report with footnoted debt schedule, federal income tax return, balance sheet, Form 990 for nonprofits)
automated deadline tracking against the 30-day-after-issuance and federal-tax-extension clocks
routing into the licensing review queue

HF2433|Ch. 117·Education finance and anonymous threat reporting systems

Chapter117§ 1, 2, 3

Anonymous threat reporting system mandate for school districts and charter schools

Strong

What the law does

Creates Minnesota Statutes section 121A.0361 requiring every school district and charter school to adopt, by June 30, 2027, a policy implementing either a local anonymous threat reporting system or the Department of Public Safety's statewide system, with the chosen system operational by July 1, 2028. Local systems must offer 24/7 anonymous intake via mobile app, website, and toll-free hotline; immediately forward reports to designated school staff, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and local law enforcement; train designated responders (including BCA and local law enforcement coordination); and promote public awareness via website, student handbook, and annual parent notice. Schools using the statewide DPS system must publicize it the same way. Active reports are classified as confidential or protected nonpublic and may be shared among schools, DPS, MDE, law enforcement, and noncriminal justice partners (behavioral health, social services, community partners); data becomes inactive when no longer connected to a threat or two years after the last associated report. Annual MDE report to the legislature on which districts implemented local vs. statewide vs. neither.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of EducationMinnesota Department of Public SafetyBureau of Criminal ApprehensionSchool districtsCharter schools

Concourse software opportunity

Vendor opportunity to deliver compliant local anonymous threat reporting platforms to every Minnesota K-12 district and charter school choosing the local option:

24/7 mobile app and website and toll-free hotline intake
automated immediate routing to designated school staff, BCA, and local law enforcement
configurable triage and case workflow
staff training on cross-agency response
FERPA and Minn. Stat. chapter 13 compliance with the new active/inactive data lifecycle and confidential/protected-nonpublic classification under section 121A.0361 subd. 5
multidisciplinary-team data-sharing controls
pre-July 1, 2026 grandfathered system bring-into-compliance services
annual MDE reporting workflow on system type

Districts opting for the statewide DPS system still need notification and outreach tooling (website content, handbook copy, annual parent notices) plus a compliance-attestation pipeline to MDE.

SF3432|Ch. 118·Capitol, judicial, and public safety security modernization

4 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter118§ Art. 1 Sec. 2

Supreme Court Safe and Secure Courthouse Initiative grant administration

Strong

What the law does

Appropriates $4,000,000 to the Supreme Court (Art. 1, Sec. 2(d)) for a competitive Safe and Secure Courthouse Initiative grant program; grants may be awarded to governmental entities for courthouse security assessments, equipment, technology, construction, or training; recipients must provide a 50 percent nonstate match; onetime appropriation available until June 30, 2029.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Judicial BranchMinnesota Supreme Court

Concourse software opportunity

Competitive grant administration platform for the $4M Safe and Secure Courthouse Initiative:

governmental-entity applicant intake
eligible-use validation across security assessments/equipment/technology/construction/training categories
50 percent nonstate match verification
multiyear award management (available until June 30, 2029)
grantee performance and expenditure reporting
outcome rollup for Judicial Branch and legislative review

Chapter118§ Art. 1 Sec. 9

SF3432|Ch. 118, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

State Capitol entry-screening and complex security operations

Strong

What the law does

Increases the State Patrol Capitol Security appropriation by $5,876,000 in FY26 and $9,899,000 in FY27 (Art. 1, Sec. 9(c)), including $2,220,000 FY26 plus $5,099,000 FY27 for additional State Patrol personnel, overtime, and scanning equipment to screen individuals entering the State Capitol building, and $4,700,000 FY27 for security enhancements on the Capitol complex; the commissioner is prohibited from using trunk highway fund money or transferring troopers from highway patrol to Capitol security.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyMinnesota State Patrol

Concourse software opportunity

Capitol-entry screening and Capitol complex security operations stack:

walk-through and X-ray scanning equipment procurement
visitor screening workflow with State Patrol officer staffing
screening data capture and incident logging
physical security upgrades (cameras, access control, perimeter hardening) for the Capitol complex
operational analytics that respect the trunk-highway and trooper-transfer prohibitions in the same section

Chapter118§ Art. 2 Sec. 1, Art. 2 Sec. 2

SF3432|Ch. 118, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

DPS elected official emergency contact information registry

Strong

What the law does

Creates new Minn. Stat. 299A.96 (Art. 2, Sec. 2) requiring elected officials (state executive officers, legislators, supreme court justices, and members of the state's federal congressional delegation) to annually submit and verify by January 31 their primary residential and any secondary in-state address, work and home phone numbers, email address, and contact information for immediate family members to the commissioner of public safety; requires notification within 30 days of any change; allows officials to opt out in writing; classifies all submitted data as private under section 13.02, subd. 12 (also referenced in new Minn. Stat. 13.6905, subd. 39 in Art. 2, Sec. 1); and restricts use and disclosure to authorized personnel for official public safety purposes subject to remedies and penalties under sections 13.08 and 13.09.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public Safety

Concourse software opportunity

Secure elected-officials emergency-contact registry:

annual January 31 submission and verification workflow covering executive officers
legislators
supreme court justices
federal congressional delegation members
30-day change-notification intake
written opt-out tracking
private-data classification controls under chapter 13
role-based authorized-personnel access for official public safety purposes
full audit logging tied to sections 13.08 and 13.09 penalties
integration with the legislative services unit and Capitol Security threat-assessment workflows

Chapter118§ Art. 3 Sec. 2, Art. 4 Sec. 3

SF3432|Ch. 118, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Statewide domestic violence lethality assessment protocol and DV response training platform

Strong

What the law does

Appropriates $159,000 in FY27 to the Office of Justice Programs (Art. 3 Sec. 2(a)) for the Task Force on Improving Responses to Domestic Violence Crimes, and establishes that task force in Art. 4 Sec. 3 to develop a model policy on the use of lethality assessments by peace officers responding to domestic abuse, recommend training for 911 telecommunicators, peace officers, social workers, prosecutors, and judges, review interviewing practices and barriers victims encounter, recommend prosecutorial data standards, and report a preliminary product (model policy and training recommendations) by January 15, 2027 and a final report by January 15, 2028.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyOffice of Justice ProgramsMinnesota Judicial BranchLocal law enforcement

Concourse software opportunity

Lethality-assessment protocol and DV training platform:

mobile-friendly lethality assessment form for peace officers responding to domestic abuse incidents (with the statutorily required risk-of-immediate-protection scoring and recommended officer actions)
automated victim-service referral
training delivery and tracking for 911 telecommunicators
peace officers
social workers
prosecutors
judges
prosecutorial DV data collection and reporting against the task force's recommended standards
predominant-aggressor arrest data review
task force secretariat operations (member invitations across the statutorily named coalitions and agencies, chapter 13D meeting administration, and authoring of the January 15, 2027 preliminary and January 15, 2028 final reports)

HF4591|Ch. 119·State government operations omnibus

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter119§ Art. 3

Board of Barber Examiners licensing and examination platform modernization

Strong

What the law does

Restructures the Board of Barber Examiners under chapter 154: removes union and professional-organization composition requirements, splits exam fees from initial registration fees, removes the tenth-grade education prerequisite (substituting age 17 and a 1,500-hour curriculum of 281 classroom and 1,219 practical hours), authorizes board-approved practical-exam providers (with direct examinee fees), increases practical exam sittings from six to eight per year, defines the comprehensive examination scope, grading, and retake rules, adds a public-meeting school application review with financial-sufficiency review, requires affidavits of completed hours, adopts reciprocity for nonresident barbers and credits up to 1,000 hours for licensed cosmetologists who pursue barber registration, requires a home-study course before reinstatement and reciprocity exams, and repeals legacy barber rules in Minnesota Rules parts 2100.2500-2100.6000.

Implementing agencies

Board of Barber Examiners

Concourse software opportunity

Modernization of Board of Barber Examiners operations:

online applications for barber, instructor, shop, school, and student registrations under the new fee schedule
integration with board-approved examination providers with pay-through to examinees
practical-and-written grading workflows with the new 75/75 minimum and per-portion retake tracking
school application review tooling for the public-meeting financial-sufficiency hearings
reciprocity engine for nonresidents and licensed cosmetologists with credited-hour tracking
home-study course delivery for restoration and reciprocity candidates
affidavit-of-hours intake from schools
inspection scheduling and complaint management for shops and schools

Chapter119§ Art. 4

HF4591|Ch. 119, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Board of Cosmetology licensing, enforcement, and school management platform

Strong

What the law does

Overhauls chapter 155A and renames the Board of Cosmetologist Examiners to the Board of Cosmetology (revisor instruction in Art. 4 Sec. 37): updates board composition (advanced practice esthetician seat), redefines cosmetologist, esthetician, salon, school, and adds school administrator and practitioner definitions; revises the three-year fee schedule (removes practitioner-class scope-violation penalties, adds no-fee temporary military licenses for eyelash technicians and others, removes special-event permit, simplifies multi-license renewals so instructor renewal aligns operator and salon manager licenses); regulates online instruction (theory only) and adds up to 1% of training hours for external industry-education activities; establishes barber-to-cosmetology reciprocity (up to 500 credited hours, effective January 1, 2027); requires a designated school manager and updates surety bond, financial sufficiency, and curriculum-program review for schools; mandates physical separation between schools and co-located salons or businesses; and overhauls enforcement (cease-and-desist, licensing actions with detailed order content and 30-day hearing rights, temporary suspension, civil penalties up to $2,000 per violation, corrective action agreements, and Court of Administrative Hearings cost recovery); repeals Minn. Stat. 155A.275 and Laws 2017 First Special Session ch. 4, art. 1, sec. 29.

Implementing agencies

Board of Cosmetology

Concourse software opportunity

Full licensing and enforcement platform for the renamed Board of Cosmetology:

practitioner, manager, instructor, salon, and school applications under the revised fee schedule including the new eyelash technician temporary military license and combined instructor and operator renewal
school application review with financial responsibility, surety bond auto-computation against prior-year tuition, and school administrator certification
school-and-salon physical separation attestation tooling
curriculum management including online-theory vs in-person practical hour tracking and the 1% external industry-education allowance
barber-to-cosmetology reciprocity engine with credited-hour ledgers
inspection scheduling and complaint case management with cease-and-desist, licensing-action, temporary-suspension, civil-penalty, and corrective-action-agreement workflows including order-becomes-final notice and judgment-filing capture
continuing-education provider approval registry

SF334|Ch. 120·Human Services Systems Modernization Fund

3 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter120§ Sec. 2, Sec. 5, Sec. 9

MNIT Human Services Systems Modernization Advisory Council secretariat

Strong

What the law does

Creates new Minn. Stat. 16E.40 establishing the Human Services Systems Modernization Advisory Council (commissioners of human services, CYF, and MNIT plus county/AMC and Tribal appointees) to advise on planning, prioritization, governance, financing, development, implementation, integration, replacement, and modernization of human services systems; requires quarterly open meetings, a 'prior consultation' gate before any major modernization project that materially affects counties or Tribes, and annual reports to the Legislative Commission and committee chairs starting February 1, 2027.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota IT ServicesDepartment of Human ServicesDepartment of Children, Youth, and Families

Concourse software opportunity

Council secretariat platform run by MNIT and funded by the Sec. 9 $3.9M appropriation:

membership and appointment ledger (commissioners plus AMC, county social-service administrator, and Minnesota Indian Affairs Council appointees)
chapter-13D-compliant meeting scheduling and public testimony intake
'prior consultation' workflow that captures each major modernization proposal and the council's recommendations (plus the ten-business-day commissioner-response trigger when a recommendation is declined)
inventory of legacy and replacement human services systems
project-level recommendation tracking on interoperability and federal financial participation
annual report generation to the Legislative Commission and the legislative committee chairs

Chapter120§ Sec. 10(a)

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MAXIS integration layer

Strong

What the law does

Sec. 10(a) appropriates $2,163,000 in FY27 (with FY28 base $4,737,000 and FY29 base $3,893,000) from the human services systems modernization fund to the commissioner of CYF for the MAXIS integration layer.

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesMinnesota IT Services

Concourse software opportunity

Integration layer that sits between MAXIS and the rest of the human services stack (METS, MMIS, MNbenefits, county/Tribal systems, federal FTI/SSA/IRS verification services):

event-driven and REST APIs that replace MAXIS overnight batch hand-offs
identity and access management
secure data exchange with audit logging
reusable middleware components that the Sec. 10(g) rules engine and the Sec. 10(d) secure applicant portal both consume

Chapter120§ Sec. 10(d)

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

CYF secure applicant portal

Strong

What the law does

Sec. 10(d) appropriates $1,414,000 in FY27 from the modernization fund to the commissioner of CYF to develop a secure applicant portal; available until June 30, 2029.

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and Families

Concourse software opportunity

Secure applicant portal across CYF economic-assistance programs:

identity proofing, application intake and recertification flows that talk to the Sec. 10(a) integration layer and the Sec. 10(g) rules engine, document upload with image enhancement and OCR, electronic notices, application and benefit status tracking, secure messaging with caseworkers, account management, accessibility-compliant UI, and multilingual support
designed to phase users off of MAXIS-mediated paper and in-person submission

SF4476|Ch. 121·Continuity of care, long-term care, behavioral health, and EVV omnibus

7 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter121§ Art. 2, Art. 13

Small assisted-living licensure development and local inspection delegation

Strong

What the law does

Long-term care facilities

Implementing agencies

Department of HealthDepartment of Human ServicesCounties

Concourse software opportunity

Directs MDH to convene stakeholders and draft a new license category for assisted-living facilities with five or fewer residents serving customized-living/waiver populations
with a $150,000 onetime appropriation and draft legislation due January 1
2028. Art. 2 Sec. 7 authorizes MDH to delegate physical-plant and zoning inspections for six-or-fewer-bed assisted-living facilities to counties or local units of government effective January 1
2027. Opens stakeholder-engagement
rules-drafting
local-government inspection-system build-out work

Chapter121§ Art. 4

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Expanded DHS OIG payment-withholding and immediate-suspension authority

Strong

What the law does

Program integrity and sanctions

Implementing agencies

Department of Human Services Office of Inspector GeneralOffice of Administrative Hearings

Concourse software opportunity

Amends Minn. Stat. 245.095 to add new statutory grounds for payment withholding (criminal conviction for fraud/theft against state/federal programs, operating after a license suspension or revocation even on appeal, and unset-aside background-study disqualifications)
245A.07 to expand immediate-suspension grounds to controlling individuals subject to pending fraud investigations or civil actions. Exempts these OIG sanctions from generalized commissioner-authority limits in 15.013. Drives provider defense
OIG audit-readiness
corrective-action planning
case-management system updates

Chapter121§ Art. 5

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Background-study expansion to ARMHS, ACT, peer recovery, and board members

Strong

What the law does

Background studies

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesNETStudy 2.0 ProgramBureau of Criminal Apprehension

Concourse software opportunity

New Minn. Stat. 245C.03 subd. 17/18/19 require DHS background studies for owners (5%+ stake)
operators
board members
direct-contact employees/volunteers at ARMHS providers (effective ~Oct. 13, 2026)
peer-recovery support services providers (~Dec. 15, 2026)
adult assertive community treatment providers (~Feb. 16, 2027). PCA and CFSS provider agencies must also study board members. Drives fingerprint-vendor volume
HR/onboarding integration
provider compliance services across behavioral-health and waiver providers

Chapter121§ Art. 6

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Adult mental health direct-payment authority replacing grant process

Strong

What the law does

Behavioral health funding mechanism

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesCountiesTribal NationsAmerican Indian Substance Use Programs

Concourse software opportunity

Amends Minn. Stat. 245.4661 (Subds. 1a, 3a, 9, 12) to replace the adult mental health initiative grant funding mechanism with a 'direct payment' authority exempt from statewide grant-making laws (16A.15, 16B.97, 16C.05) for distributions to counties and Tribes. Direct payments extend to 254A.03 American Indian programs and 254B.02 Tribal allocations. Commissioner must develop oversight
monitoring
eligibility criteria
a January 1
2027 report. Drives financial-monitoring tooling
oversight rulemaking
county/Tribe direct-payment intake redesign

Chapter121§ Art. 6

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Expanded withdrawal-management start-up and capacity-building grants

Strong

What the law does

Withdrawal management and SUD capacity

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesSUD Treatment ProvidersWithdrawal Management Programs

Concourse software opportunity

Rewrites Minn. Stat. 254B.17 to broaden grant eligibility from prospective/new chapter 245F withdrawal management to existing SUD treatment and withdrawal-management programs integrating medically managed or clinically monitored ASAM levels of care into outpatient
intensive outpatient
or residential settings. Allowable uses now include physical-space improvements
new locations
ASAM certification costs
MOUD program build-out
contracting with medical-services providers. Drives SUD provider expansion
ASAM credentialing consulting
capital-project advisory work

Chapter121§ Art. 9

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Colocation prohibition for six-or-fewer-bed HCBS residential settings

Strong

What the law does

Home and community-based settings

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesDepartment of HealthCountiesAdult Foster Care OperatorsCustomized Living Operators

Concourse software opportunity

New Minn. Stat. 245A.042 Subd. 7 (effective July 1, 2026) prohibits authorization of services or initial licensure for community residential settings
adult foster care
six-or-fewer customized living
24-hour customized living
chapter 144G assisted-living facilities (six or fewer) on the same or adjoining property as another such setting
regardless of ownership and including right-of-way/easement adjacency. MDH and DHS execute an interagency agreement (256.01 subd. 21) for adjacency determinations. Drives site-selection due-diligence
waiver/relocation advisory
new-development restructuring for HCBS operators

Chapter121§ Art. 9, Art. 12

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

ICS licensure moratorium with narrow exception process

Strong

What the law does

Integrated community supports

Implementing agencies

Department of Human Services245D Integrated Community Supports License Holders

Concourse software opportunity

Amends Minn. Stat. 245D.12 (effective Jan. 1, 2027) to impose a moratorium on initial 245D licenses authorizing integrated community supports and on license changes adding ICS. Exceptions require demonstrating compliance with HCBS provider-controlled-settings rules
the Medicaid room-and-board prohibition
all 245D requirements
with the commissioner weighing statewide and regional capacity. Art. 12 Sec. 5 funds a $300,000 ICS reform study. Drives moratorium-exception advisory
HCBS settings-rule remediation
property-realignment work for existing ICS providers

SF4401|Ch. 123·Cannabis industry regulation modifications

Chapter123§ Art. 3

Labeling for cannabinoid products and lower-potency hemp edibles

Strong

What the law does

Cannabinoid product and LPHE labeling

Implementing agencies

Office of Cannabis Management

Concourse software opportunity

Establishes detailed LPHE label content (cultivator/manufacturer identity or license number, net weight, batch, serving size, cannabinoid profile and total THC, ingredients, universal THC symbol, child warning and poison control, testing verification, usage directions)
permits scannable barcodes for cultivator/manufacturer information
waives the universal symbol for LPHE products containing only OCM-approved nonintoxicating cannabinoids
creates a new cannabis flower packaging endorsement allowing point-of-sale packaging by micro/mezzo/macro/retailers
introduces ratio hemp-infused cannabis products with cannabinoid and serving caps (up to 100 mg CBD/CBG/CBN/CBC per serving; up to 10 mg THC per edible/beverage serving and 200 mg per package; two-serving beverage container limit). Drives label-generation
COA-pull
packaging-endorsement compliance tooling

HF4188|Ch. 124·Commerce policy omnibus

6 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter124§ Art. 1 Sec. 19, Art. 1 Sec. 20, Art. 1 Sec. 21, Art. 1 Sec. 22, Art. 1 Sec. 23, Art. 1 Sec. 24, Art. 1 Sec. 25

Expanded student loan servicer definitions, exemption narrowing, transfer protections, and recordkeeping under chapter 58B

Strong

What the law does

Student loan servicer regulation

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Amends chapter 58B to add an income-driven repayment program definition and a written communication definition
narrows the lender exemption in 58B.02 subd. 8a, subjecting chapter 56 regulated lenders to annual reporting
rewrites 58B.03 lender and servicer annual reports to require year-end submission on or before March 15 covering loans, defaults, refinances, collections suits, and cosigner data, with mandatory data-sharing with the commissioner of higher education
rewrites 58B.06 subd. 4 to require a 15-day pre-transfer notice, a 45-day 'necessary information' handoff covering transactions, promissory notes, communication notes, data fields, forgiveness eligibility data, and payment history, and explicit borrower protection from negative credit reporting, late fees, and benefit losses
tightens 58B.06 subd. 6 recordkeeping to require complete and accurate two-year records including written communications and call recordings. Drives compliance, transfer-protocol, system, and borrower-communications work for student loan lenders, servicers, and subservicers operating in Minnesota

Chapter124§ Art. 1 Sec. 33, Art. 1 Sec. 35, Art. 1 Sec. 36, Art. 1 Sec. 37, Art. 1 Sec. 54

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

New section 62A.70 short-term home health and nursing care insurance product with conforming fixed indemnity, long-term care, group cancellation, and alternative care updates

Strong

What the law does

Short-term home health and nursing care insurance

Implementing agencies

Department of CommerceDepartment of Human Services

Concourse software opportunity

Enacts new Minn. Stat. 62A.70 establishing an authorized short-term home health and nursing care insurance product with definitions for ADLs, cognitive impairment, free-look period, plan of care, home health agency, nursing facility, and related concepts
conforms 62A.135 to treat it as fixed indemnity and 62A.46 to exclude it from the long-term care policy definition
amends 60A.085 to let group life, AD&D, and disability policyholders assume cancellation notice duties from the insurer under a written agreement
amends 256B.0913 subd. 4 to clarify the new product does not count as third-party health or long-term care insurance for alternative care funding eligibility. Drives product filing, form drafting, training, and DHS coordination work for carriers introducing or repositioning home health insurance products

Chapter124§ Art. 1 Sec. 34, Art. 1 Sec. 38, Art. 1 Sec. 39, Art. 1 Sec. 40, Art. 1 Sec. 41, Art. 1 Sec. 42, Art. 1 Sec. 43

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

New chapter 65C travel insurance regulation paired with overhauled limited lines travel insurance producer licensing under section 60K.383

Strong

What the law does

Travel insurance framework

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Creates new Minn. Stat. chapter 65C establishing a comprehensive travel insurance framework (definitions of aggregator site, blanket travel insurance, cancellation fee waiver, eligible group, travel administrator, travel protection plan, and primary policy/certificate holder; combined travel-protection-plan pricing and fulfillment material requirements; sales practices including marketing consistency with policy forms, free-look refund windows, prohibition on negative-option enrollment and 'free' blanket marketing; travel administrator licensing through P&C, MGA, or TPA license; and inland marine line classification with an accident-and-health alternative)
rewrites 60K.383 to license 'limited lines travel insurance producers,' register travel retailers
define offer-and-disseminate
prescribe brochure
training
disclosure requirements
all effective 90 days after enactment. Drives licensing transition
distribution restructuring
form filing
marketing review
training program
aggregator/OTA compliance work for travel insurers
agencies
online travel platforms

Chapter124§ Art. 2

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

New broker-dealer and investment adviser business continuity, cybersecurity, written confirmation, and enumerated dishonest practices standards

Strong

What the law does

Securities broker-dealer and investment adviser standards

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Amends chapter 80A to require broker-dealers to maintain a documented written supervisory procedures program and apply-procedure system at each branch and to retain a registered person at any Minnesota principal office
requires investment advisers to establish written business continuity and succession plans and written physical security and cybersecurity policies (with NIST-style identify/protect/detect/respond/recover elements and a delivered, annually updated client privacy policy)
adds broker-dealer written confirmation duties consistent with FINRA Rule 2232 and prohibits customer-rights-waiver contract terms
creates new 80A.691 enumerating 29 dishonest-or-unethical practice categories for broker-dealers (including suitability and Reg BI failures, churning, unauthorized trades, manipulative trading, advertising abuses, failures to pay judgments or regulatory penalties, and undisclosed conflicts) and six categories for their agents
expands 80A.50 small corporate offering notice filing, renewal, and stop-order remedies
reorganizes 80C.12 franchise denial and cease-and-desist grounds. Drives substantial compliance program, supervisory procedure rollout, cybersecurity build, privacy disclosure, training, and contract-form rework opportunities for broker-dealers, investment advisers, their agents, and franchisors registered in Minnesota

Chapter124§ Art. 3 Sec. 4, Art. 3 Sec. 5, Art. 3 Sec. 6, Art. 3 Sec. 7, Art. 3 Sec. 8, Art. 3 Sec. 9, Art. 3 Sec. 10, Art. 3 Sec. 11

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Expanded interagency health data sharing, AI-only utilization-review prohibition, clinical trainee reimbursement parity, and home care nursing benefit evaluation

Strong

What the law does

Health insurance data sharing, utilization review, mental health parity, and home care nursing evaluation

Implementing agencies

Department of CommerceDepartment of HealthDepartment of Human ServicesDepartment of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Amends Minn. Stat. 62J.40 to require state agencies that purchase health care, oversee insurance rates, collect MinnesotaCare taxes under 295.52, or regulate health care entities to share nonpublic data with the commissioner of health (consolidation, transactions, corporate structure, utilization, quality, spending growth, and drug supply chain data)
requires the commissioner of commerce to share prescription drug rate-filing data with health under 62K.07 and PBM data under 62W.06
expands 62U.04 APCD access to the commissioner of commerce for insurance oversight
permits Revenue under 270B.14 to share MinnesotaCare tax records with health
prohibits utilization review organizations from making adverse determinations using automated processing alone (effective Jan. 1, 2027) under 62M.09
requires health plans, effective Jan. 1, 2027, to reimburse alcoholism/mental health/CD services delivered by 245I.04 clinical trainees at no less than 100 percent of the rate paid to independently licensed mental health professionals (62Q.47)
directs commerce, by Jan. 15, 2027, to evaluate 2026 SF 4502 as a mandated benefit. Drives AI policy redesign, reimbursement contracting, interagency data engineering, parity reporting, and legislative-engagement work

Chapter124§ Art. 4

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Restructured 2027 reinsurance disbursement schedule, commissioner-led 2028 group health carrier assessment, and refundable 2028 reinsurance premiums tax credit

Strong

What the law does

Minnesota premium security plan reinsurance

Implementing agencies

Department of CommerceDepartment of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Amends Minn. Stat. 62E.23 to set benefit year 2026 reinsurance disbursement deadline as Aug. 15, 2027 and BY 2027 deadline as Aug. 31, 2028 (with a state transfer to the association by Aug. 15, 2028)
rewrites the 2028 onetime group health carrier assessment with the commissioner as principal collector and a defined timeline (April 15 estimate, July 3 association-proposed amount, July 20 commissioner approval, July 24 carrier notice, Aug. 7 payment, March 15, 2029 accuracy reconciliation), a deferral application due May 1 and decision by June 1, and explicit deposit of assessments and refunds in the 62E.25 premium security plan account
amends 297I.20 subd. 7 to ensure the reinsurance premiums tax credit (tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2028) is refundable to the taxpayer that paid the assessment, with Commerce certifying assessment payments to Revenue by March 1. Drives program-administration redesign, IT and accounting workflow, tax credit claiming, and carrier coordination work for the association, Commerce, Revenue, and group health carriers

HF4492|Ch. 125·Read Act modifications, literacy field experience, and high school diplomas for veterans

Chapter125§ Art. 1

Read Act refinements, screening accommodations, and curriculum review

Strong

What the law does

Read Act amendments and structured literacy implementation

Implementing agencies

Department of EducationProfessional Educator Licensing and Standards BoardSchool DistrictsCharter Schools

Concourse software opportunity

Reworks the Read Act:

districts must screen grade 4+ non-proficient readers at least annually
ELs are screened for dyslexia per vendor guidelines
vendor-approved accommodations are required for students with plans
dual-language immersion data must be reported
local literacy plans must describe how school library media centers complement foundational reading skills beginning 2026-2027. PELSB-approved teacher prep candidates first enrolled on or after June 1
2026 in elementary
special ed
or early childhood programs are exempt from the structured-literacy training under 120B.123
subd. 5(a). All Read Act PD and digital curriculum must meet accessibility standards under 16E.03 subd. 9 and 363A.43. By October 1
2026
MDE must establish an ongoing publisher-funded review process (chapter 16C solicitation) partnering with one or more higher-ed institutions or third party. Strong vendor pipeline for structured-literacy curricula
intervention programs
accessible PD
dual-language screeners

SF2077|Ch. 126·Legacy Fund appropriations, state lands, AURI, and Iron Range UI

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter126§ Art. 1

Outdoor Heritage Fund appropriations and LSOHC accomplishment plans

Strong

What the law does

Outdoor Heritage Fund FY2027 appropriations

Implementing agencies

Department of Natural ResourcesLessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage CouncilBoard of Water and Soil Resources

Concourse software opportunity

LSOHC grants tracker and accomplishment-plan platform:

$191M in FY27 onetime OHF grants flow to 50+ projects (DNR, BWSR, and partner NGOs like Pheasants Forever, Ducks Unlimited, TNC, Minnesota Land Trust) that each require accomplishment plans
monitoring/enforcement funds
parcel lists
final reports submitted to the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council. A grantee portal for plan submission
parcel-list management
easement monitoring escrow tracking
progress/final reporting would replace today's PDF-and-spreadsheet workflow

Chapter126§ Art. 4

SF2077|Ch. 126, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

State lands additions/deletions, conveyances, and DNR e-licensing extension

Strong

What the law does

State lands transactions and DNR electronic licensing system

Implementing agencies

Department of Natural ResourcesMinnesota Historical Society

Concourse software opportunity

DNR e-licensing modernization plus state-lands inventory:

Art. 4 extends the DNR electronic licensing system appropriation (Laws 2024 ch. 116) through June 30
2027 and amends Minn. Stat. 97A.056 (e-licensing provisions)
while also adding/deleting parcels in named state parks and authorizing surplus-land conveyances (Wabasha, Washington counties, MNHS Marine on St. Croix). Direct opportunity to deliver the next-gen DNR hunting/fishing/watercraft licensing platform
plus a state-lands inventory/conveyance tracking workflow

SF4612|Ch. 127·Health, CYF, and human services policy and supplemental appropriations

5 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter127§ Art. 3 Sec. 1, Art. 3 Sec. 2, Art. 3 Sec. 3, Art. 3 Sec. 6, Art. 3 Sec. 14, Art. 3 Sec. 15, Art. 18 Sec. 3

Hospital Stabilization Program and reserve account

Strong

What the law does

Hospital finance

Implementing agencies

Department of HealthDepartment of Management and BudgetLegislative Advisory Commission

Concourse software opportunity

Establishes a $30,000,000 onetime hospital stabilization program with $50,000 payments to each critical access and rural emergency hospital plus formula-based payments to Medicaid disproportionate share hospitals tied to qualifying uncompensated episodes of care, and creates a hospital stabilization reserve receiving up to $500,000,000 in transfers by FY2028
opens consulting opportunities around uncompensated-care documentation, cost-report analytics, eligibility certification under Minn. Stat. 144.7051, organizational chart and affiliated-entity disclosures, and Legislative Advisory Commission submission packets

Chapter127§ Art. 6 Sec. 2, Art. 6 Sec. 4, Art. 6 Sec. 5, Art. 6 Sec. 8, Art. 6 Sec. 9, Art. 6 Sec. 10, Art. 6 Sec. 11, Art. 6 Sec. 12, Art. 6 Sec. 19, Art. 6 Sec. 20

SF4612|Ch. 127, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Medicaid federal conformity, work and community engagement requirements, and eligibility oversight unit

Strong

What the law does

Medicaid eligibility

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesDepartment of Employment and Economic Development

Concourse software opportunity

Implements Public Law 119-21 work and community engagement requirements for Medicaid applicable individuals (Minn. Stat. 256B.0562), shifts to six-month redeterminations with shortened retroactive coverage windows, mandates quarterly death-master-file reviews (Minn. Stat. 256B.0563), establishes a DHS health care eligibility oversight unit, and requires lead-agency monitoring and corrective-action support
expedited rulemaking authorized and notice to all section-15 enrollees required by October 1, 2026, creating demand for eligibility-system reconfiguration, MMIS/case-management vendors, data-matching services, exemption-determination tooling, and noticing/outreach operations

Chapter127§ Art. 11, Art. 19 Sec. 10, Art. 19 Sec. 13

SF4612|Ch. 127, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Minnesota African American Family Preservation Act statewide allocation and disproportionality determinations

Strong

What the law does

Child welfare

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesAfrican American Child and Family Well-Being Advisory CouncilChildren's Justice InitiativeCounties

Concourse software opportunity

Codifies a new formula-based county allocation (Minn. Stat. 260.694) using child population, screened-in maltreatment reports, and open child protection cases (minimum $100,000 per county), redefines disproportionately represented child to include disability and low-income socioeconomic status, requires biennial commissioner determinations of overrepresentation with advisory council input by September 2026, expands case-review and remediation-plan requirements, and appropriates $15,000,000 in FY2027 for initial county implementation
creates demand for case-review analytics, remediation planning support, cultural competency curriculum delivered through the Child Welfare Training Academy, and county-level program build-out

Chapter127§ Art. 12, Art. 19 Sec. 8, Art. 20 Sec. 3

SF4612|Ch. 127, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Child care center licensing modernization (new Minn. Stat. chapter 142H)

Strong

What the law does

Child care licensing

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesDepartment of Public Safety

Concourse software opportunity

Recodifies and modernizes all licensed child care center requirements into a new Minn. Stat. chapter 142H (definitions, staffing, programming, health, safety, training, drop-in, night, and sick care), repeals Minn. Rules chapter 9503, and authorizes a $450,000 contract in FY2027 (with $338,000 ongoing base) for a vendor to deliver child care licensing basics training (course design, translation, marketing, promotion, underwriting)
also signals $544,000 FY2029 base at DPS for licensing modernization under chapters 142H/142I, creating consulting and vendor opportunities in curriculum development, e-learning platforms, regulatory implementation, and operator readiness training

Chapter127§ Art. 13, Art. 20 Sec. 3

SF4612|Ch. 127, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Family child care licensing modernization (new Minn. Stat. chapter 142I)

Strong

What the law does

Child care licensing

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesDepartment of Public Safety

Concourse software opportunity

Establishes a new Minn. Stat. chapter 142I consolidating family and group family child care licensing standards (definitions, capacity, environment, safety, training, behavior guidance, sleep and food, and licensure pathways) and repeals legacy Minn. Rules 9502.0300 through 9502.0445
combined with the chapter 142H modernization, drives demand for licensing-IT updates, county licensor training, provider-facing readiness tools, multilingual provider communications, and policy implementation support for family child care operators

HF2438|Ch. 128·Omnibus tax bill

7 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter128§ Art. 2 Sec. 9, Art. 2 Sec. 12, Art. 2 Sec. 16, Art. 2 Sec. 17

Extend pass-through entity tax and credit-for-tax-paid-to-other-state through 2027

Strong

What the law does

Pass-through entity tax

Implementing agencies

Department of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Decouples Minnesota's pass-through entity (PTE) tax election under section 289A.08
subdivision 7a
the related credit for PTE tax paid to other states under section 290.06
subdivision 23a
from the federal SALT cap sunset. Both provisions are revived and reenacted retroactively from January 1
2026
now expire for taxable years beginning after December 31
2027. Section 16 waives 2026 estimated payment additions to tax if the first installment is paid in full with the second installment
preserving planning value for pass-through owners and their CPAs through the 2026 and 2027 tax years

Chapter128§ Art. 1 Sec. 13, Art. 1 Sec. 20, Art. 1 Sec. 22, Art. 1 Sec. 23, Art. 1 Sec. 28, Art. 1 Sec. 29

HF2438|Ch. 128, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Replace GILTI conformity with Minnesota net CFC tested income regime

Strong

What the law does

Corporate international tax

Implementing agencies

Department of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Creates new section 290.034 defining Minnesota net CFC tested income (federal section 951A inclusions adjusted by section 290.035) and new section 290.035 preserving the pre-OBBBA section 951(A)(b)(2)(A) calculation and rejecting the federal permanent extension of the look-thru rule under Public Law 119-21 section 70351. New corporate and individual subtractions under sections 290.0132 subd 41 and 290.0134 subd 24
plus dividend-income treatment under section 290.21 subds 9 and 10
materially change the GILTI/Subpart F base for multinational filers effective for tax years beginning after December 31
2025

Chapter128§ Art. 1 Sec. 26

HF2438|Ch. 128, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Restructure Minnesota dependent care credit formula and income phaseout

Strong

What the law does

Dependent care credit

Implementing agencies

Department of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Rebuilds section 290.067 around a Minnesota-specific credit percentage (35 percent, phased down by 1 point per $2,000 of AGI above $15,000 to a floor of 20 percent) applied to eligible employment-related expenses capped at $3,000 (one qualifying individual) or $6,000 (two or more)
with the credit further reduced by 5 percent of AGI above $65,610 and indexed from statutory year 2026. Separates deemed expenses for in-home family day care and infants into a new subdivision 2c. Effective for tax years beginning after December 31
2025
requiring DOR form redesign and software updates for the 2026 filing season

Chapter128§ Art. 2 Sec. 1, Art. 2 Sec. 2, Art. 2 Sec. 3, Art. 2 Sec. 4

HF2438|Ch. 128, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Expand sustainable aviation fuel tax credit cap, add carbon-intensity supplement, and extend through 2035

Strong

What the law does

Sustainable aviation fuel

Implementing agencies

Department of AgricultureDepartment of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Increases the total allocation cap for the SAF production/blending credit under section 41A.30 from $11.6 million to $36.9 million
adds annual allocations through FY 2035 (including $7.4 million for FY 2027 and $5.3 million for FY 2028)
extends the credit's sunset to tax years beginning after December 31
2035. Tightens feedstock eligibility to U.S.-produced biomass
gaseous carbon oxides
or low-carbon hydrogen and excludes enhanced-oil-recovery sequestration. Adds a supplemental credit of $0.02 per gallon per whole percentage point of carbon-intensity reduction beyond 50 percent
capped at $2.00 per gallon
opening planning opportunities for refiners
blenders
biofuel project developers

Chapter128§ Art. 4 Sec. 11

HF2438|Ch. 128, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Onetime 14.88 percent homestead credit refund increase for property taxes payable in 2026

Strong

What the law does

Property tax refunds

Implementing agencies

Department of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Directs the commissioner of revenue to increase by 14.88 percent each homestead credit refund payable under section 290A.04
subdivision 2
for claims based on property taxes payable in 2026
with an open appropriation from the general fund and no requirement to provide notice of appeal rights. Significant short-term cash benefit for Minnesota homeowners and a notable operational lift for DOR refund processing
outreach
software vendors during the 2026 M1PR filing season

Chapter128§ Art. 5 Sec. 1, Art. 5 Sec. 2, Art. 5 Sec. 3, Art. 5 Sec. 4, Art. 5 Sec. 5, Art. 5 Sec. 6, Art. 5 Sec. 10, Art. 5 Sec. 12, Art. 5 Sec. 13

HF2438|Ch. 128, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Establish Mesabi Metallics taconite production tax distribution framework

Strong

What the law does

Minerals taxes

Implementing agencies

Department of RevenueDepartment of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation

Concourse software opportunity

Conditioned on the year Mesabi Metallics (or its successor) begins paying section 298.24 taconite tax
sections 1-12 set new guaranteed distributions and per-ton allocations for cities
towns
school districts
the Iron Range schools and community development account (including 20 cents per ton dedicated to Greenway ISD No. 316 referendum projects through 2050)
the taconite economic development fund
the taconite municipal aid account
plus $25,000 distributions each to Orr and Winton and $75,000 each to Cook and Two Harbors. Section 10 establishes a proration mechanism if Mesabi Metallics proceeds are insufficient. Major revenue-planning opportunity for Iron Range municipalities
school districts
IRRRB project sponsors

Chapter128§ Art. 6 Sec. 1

HF2438|Ch. 128, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Require decertification of TIF districts with unspent excess increments

Strong

What the law does

Tax increment financing

Implementing agencies

Office of the State Auditor

Concourse software opportunity

Rewrites section 469.176
subdivision 2
to require an authority that finds excess increments to both return them to the county auditor and decertify the district within nine months after December 31
absent an outstanding qualifying pay-as-you-go contract and note or a TIF plan modification that boosts authorized costs by more than the excess. Eliminates the prior option to use excess increments to prepay or escrow bonds. Applies to all districts for calendar year 2026 and after
materially changing TIF cash management strategies for development authorities
financial advisors
bond counsel statewide

HF719|Ch. 130·Capital investment / 2026 bonding bill

11 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter130§ Art. 2 Sec. 3, Art. 2 Sec. 4

Lead service line replacement program expansion

Strong

What the law does

Water infrastructure

Implementing agencies

Public Facilities AuthorityDepartment of Health

Concourse software opportunity

Amends Minn. Stat. 446A.077 to allow grant money to pay up to 100% (previously 50%) of the cost of replacing the publicly owned portions of lead drinking water service lines while still paying 100% of privately owned portions. Restricts recipients of grants funded by state general obligation bond proceeds to political subdivisions, and limits bond-funded eligible uses to publicly owned line removal/replacement and associated construction activities.

Chapter130§ Art. 2 Sec. 5

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Drinking water contaminants grants program restructuring

Strong

What the law does

Water infrastructure

Implementing agencies

Public Facilities AuthorityDepartment of Health

Concourse software opportunity

Renames Minn. Stat. 446A.082 from 'Emerging Contaminants Grants' to 'Drinking Water Contaminants Grants' and broadens eligibility to projects addressing a confirmed exceedance of any federal Safe Drinking Water Act maximum contaminant level (not just EPA health advisory levels for emerging contaminants). Adds Minnesota Rules part 4720.9020
subparts 2 and 4 to the eligible priority-point pathways. Grants remain at up to 50% of eligible as-bid costs
capped at $5,000,000
net of federal emerging contaminant funds

Chapter130§ Art. 2 Sec. 6

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Clean Water State Revolving Fund debt cap increase

Strong

What the law does

Water infrastructure

Implementing agencies

Public Facilities Authority

Concourse software opportunity

Raises the cap on outstanding debt obligations under Minn. Stat. 446A.086
subd. 11 from $1,000,000,000 to $1,500,000,000
expanding the Public Facilities Authority's bonding capacity for clean and drinking water state revolving fund loans. Effective the day following final enactment

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 2

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

University of Minnesota capital appropriation

Strong

What the law does

Higher education

Implementing agencies

University of Minnesota Board of Regents

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $75,000,000 to the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota:

$40,000,000 for systemwide asset preservation under Minn. Stat. 135A.046 and $35,000,000 to predesign
design
renovate
construct
furnish
equip Phase 1 of the new Magrath Campus Center on the St. Paul campus
including site preparation
demolition of existing space
hazardous materials abatement
relocation or expansion of related utility infrastructure

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 3

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities capital appropriation

Strong

What the law does

Higher education

Implementing agencies

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $69,812,000 to the Board of Trustees of the State Colleges and Universities:

$64,612,000 for systemwide asset preservation under Minn. Stat. 135A.046
$4,000,000 for Phase 2 capital improvements at Alexandria Technical and Community College (HVAC, building envelope, programming and student center space in a vacated transportation building) in addition to Laws 2025
1st Spec. Sess. ch. 15
$1,200,000 to renovate the Physical Education gymnasium at Southwest Minnesota State University

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 7

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Natural resources asset preservation and flood hazard mitigation

Strong

What the law does

Natural resources

Implementing agencies

Department of Natural Resources

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $79,426,000 to the commissioner of natural resources
including $30M for asset preservation (Minn. Stat. 84.946)
$19,840,000 for flood hazard mitigation grants under 103F.161 ($10M earmarked for the Moorhead-Clay County Joint Powers Authority and $840K for the Rice Creek Watershed District I-35W corridor)
$3.5M for reforestation (89.002)
$3M for building betterment (fish hatchery in St. Paul)
$2M each for state trail renovation and Brainerd Regional Airport aviation infrastructure
$1.4M for public lands betterment
$1M for accessibility upgrades at parks/WMAs
plus named grants to Anoka (Rum River Dam, $4,696,000)
the Cuyuna Lakes State Trail extension ($2M)
the Three Rivers Park District Coon Rapids Dam ($5,640,000)
the Forestville Bridge ($2M)
the Root River State Trail ($2M)

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 21

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Veterans affairs capital appropriation

Strong

What the law does

Veterans affairs

Implementing agencies

Department of AdministrationDepartment of Veterans Affairs

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $77,372,000 to the commissioner of administration for veterans facilities:

$15,000,000 for asset preservation under Minn. Stat. 16B.307 across the Minneapolis, Hastings, Fergus Falls, Montevideo, Bemidji, Preston, Silver Bay, and Luverne veterans homes and the Little Falls, Preston, and Duluth state veterans cemeteries
$17,200,000 to renovate Minneapolis Veterans Home Building 16 (including hazardous materials abatement)
$45,172,000 to renovate administrative and residential buildings and infrastructure at the Hastings campus, including demolition and asbestos/hazardous materials abatement

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 22

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Corrections asset preservation and facility investments

Strong

What the law does

Corrections

Implementing agencies

Department of AdministrationDepartment of Corrections

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $52,142,000 for the Department of Corrections:

$39,208,000 for systemwide asset preservation at Minnesota correctional facilities under Minn. Stat. 16B.307 (with a mandatory project-list report)
$350,000 to predesign statewide facility consolidation and expansion
$10,712,000 to construct and equip an expansion of vocational programming space in the Dakota Building at MCF-Faribault (including demolition)
$1,872,000 for a grant to Clay County to design and build Phase 1 of a nonsecure juvenile detention facility in Moorhead

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 17

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Metropolitan Council capital appropriation

Strong

What the law does

Metropolitan

Implementing agencies

Metropolitan Council

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $57,831,000 to the Metropolitan Council
including $15M for Metropolitan Cities Inflow and Infiltration Grants (Minn. Stat. 473.5491)
$10M for Metropolitan Regional Parks and Trails acquisition and betterments (473.147)
$5M for Community Tree-Planting Grants (473.355)
$9,350,000 to design and build new big cats/African animal habitats at the Como Zoo in St. Paul
$6M to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board for North Commons Park improvements
$4,750,000 to Ramsey County for a 2.25-mile Vadnais Lake boulevard trail
plus named grants to the Cedar Riverside Recreation Center
Loring Park's Berger Fountain
the Brown's Creek and Hardwood Creek regional trails
the Champlin Elm Creek Greenway

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 18, Art. 2 Sec. 8

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

New emergency shelter facilities grant program

Strong

What the law does

Human services

Implementing agencies

Department of Human Services

Concourse software opportunity

Creates a new Emergency Shelter Facility account in the bond proceeds fund and appropriates $10,000,000 to the commissioner of human services for competitive grants to cities
counties
HRAs to renovate
expand
or acquire safe
sanitary
accessible emergency shelter facilities. Grants may cover 100% of project capital expenditures up to $7,000,000 per project. At least 40% of awards must go to greater Minnesota
with priority for projects that include a lease/management agreement and at least 10% applicant cost-share. The section also includes a $1,131,000 grant to Hennepin County for expansion and renovation of the St. David's facility at 1130 Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis

Chapter130§ Art. 2 Sec. 9, Art. 2 Sec. 10

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Cloquet Forestry Center land transfer and bond defeasance

Strong

What the law does

Natural resources

Implementing agencies

Department of AdministrationMinnesota Management and BudgetUniversity of Minnesota Board of Regents

Concourse software opportunity

Directs the commissioner of administration to convey for no consideration all state-owned land within the boundaries of the Cloquet Forestry Center in Carlton County (eight described tracts in Townships 49 North) to the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. Appropriates $1,300,000 in FY2027 from the general fund to the commissioner of management and budget to prepay and defease outstanding general obligation bonds tied to Cloquet Forestry Center improvements, satisfying the Minn. Stat. 16A.695 conditions so the property may be returned to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Moderate

Moderate opportunities(89 across 43 chapters)

A real but bounded module-level enhancement to an existing system.

HF3425|Ch. 43·Supportive housing for HUD Continuum of Care gap funding

Chapter43§ 1

CoC gap-funding grants management portal

Moderate

What the law does

Redirects $9M of an existing $10M supportive-housing appropriation to non-competitive grants for HUD CoC grantees whose federal contracts have expired or will expire by December 31, 2026; requires each grantee to report use of funds and people served every 90 days; Minnesota Housing must compile and submit a legislative report.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Housing Finance Agency

Concourse software opportunity

Grant management portal for Minnesota Housing covering noncompetitive CoC grantee onboarding and award tracking
recurring 90-day grantee reporting on funds drawn and populations served
automated compliance flags for missing reports
an auto-generated compiled legislative report (calling out non-reporting grantees) for committee submission and Legislative Reference Library filing

SF3602|Ch. 45·Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act

Chapter45§ 2, 7, 10-12

Statewide advance-directive and POLST e-registry

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Department of HealthMinnesota Judicial Branch

Concourse software opportunity

Adjacent statewide registry that ingests electronic advance directives
POLST/MOLST forms
other electronic nontestamentary documents now valid under ch. 533
exposing verified-copy lookup APIs to hospitals
county recorders
probate courts and issuing certified paper copies per 533.18

SF2511|Ch. 48·Liquor licensing omnibus and assisted-living/nursing-home alcohol service

Chapter48§ 3, 4, 5, 7-17

Special-legislation municipal liquor license intake and tracking

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyMunicipal licensing authorities

Concourse software opportunity

DPS/municipal licensing workflow that captures the narrow venue-specific on-sale licenses (St. Paul Fitzgerald/Science Museum/Union Depot, U of M Northrop and stadium, MSU-Mankato Taylor Center, SMSU Schwan Center, Rochester Chateau, Bloomington Dwan, Springfield Community Center, Erhard Park, Brainerd Northern Pacific) plus non-contiguous food-hall premises (Minneapolis, St. Louis Park)
Lake of the Woods temporary licenses
Douglas County food-truck temporary licenses
county seasonal resort licenses

HF4241|Ch. 55·Hennepin medical examiner, ISD 535 elections, Three Rivers Park District disclosures

Chapter55§ 1

Hennepin County local-official economic interest disclosure portal

Moderate

What the law does

Restructures Hennepin Medical Examiner Board membership; repeals obsolete ISD 535 election procedures; requires Three Rivers Park District board candidates/officials to file 10A.09 economic interest statements with Hennepin County.

Implementing agencies

Hennepin CountySecretary of StateCampaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board

Concourse software opportunity

Hennepin County economic interest disclosure portal for Three Rivers Park District board candidates and elected officials (extensible to other local officials):

accepts original statements within 14 days of candidate filing close
collects annual statements
enforces 10A.09 schema (including subdivisions 5, 6a, 7, 9)
supports public search/inspection
sends deadline reminders
provides compliance reporting

SF3868|Ch. 65·Virtual currency kiosks prohibited

Chapter65§ 1-3

Virtual currency kiosk wind-down and payout compliance portal

Moderate

What the law does

Bans crypto kiosks as of Aug 1, 2026; requires removal by Dec 31, 2026; requires operators to pay out customer balances (USD or to a wallet) with on-chain proof retained for the commissioner, unless alternative lawful access channels are maintained.

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Time-limited kiosk wind-down compliance portal under new 53B.751 where operators register kiosk inventory, attest to removal by location and December 31, 2026 deadline, capture customer payout elections (USD vs designated wallet), upload payout-completion records and blockchain transaction proofs per customer (30-day transfer SLA), and document any 'alternative lawful means' exception under subd. 3
companion complaint intake for customers who could not retrieve funds

HF3676|Ch. 67·Safe at Home program expansion and anti-discrimination

Chapter67§ 7-8

DPS/DVS Safe at Home card residency-validation module

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Department of Public Safety

Concourse software opportunity

Companion DPS/DVS module that validates an unexpired Safe at Home card as acceptable residence proof for driver's licenses and identification cards at the counter and online (sec. 8, 171.0605 subd. 5 clause 27)
excludes cards marked 'temporary'
updates DVS residence-address handling so the designated Safe at Home program address is recorded as the participant's residence address on the license record (sec. 7, 171.01 subd. 45d)
with lookup integration against the Secretary of State's Safe at Home registry

HF3782|Ch. 69·Chemical irritant use disclosure in buildings

Chapter69§ 1

Chemical Irritant Deployment Disclosure system at DPS

Moderate

What the law does

Requires peace officers (or the lead agency) to notify building owners and occupants when chemical irritants, smoke screens, or diversionary devices are deployed inside a building; on request, disclose product name, product number, and total quantity; DPS must create a standard notification form.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyLocal law enforcement agenciesLocal governments

Concourse software opportunity

Statewide Chemical Irritant Deployment Disclosure system at DPS implementing new 626.745:

officer-facing (mobile) intake to log each in-building deployment (location, units affected, devices used by name, product number, and total quantity, participating agencies with lead-agency designation)
automatic generation and digital delivery of the commissioner's standardized statutory notice to building owners and unit occupants
self-service request portal for follow-up product-information disclosures by tenants, insurers, and remediation contractors with role-based access and audit logging
standard-form publication and distribution module

HF3827|Ch. 70·BCA reimbursements, crime data, vulnerable-adult OFPs, expungement

Chapter70§ 5

Automatic expungement unseal-on-error workflow

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Bureau of Criminal ApprehensionMinnesota Judicial BranchLocal law enforcement agencies

Concourse software opportunity

Harden the 609A.015 automatic expungement system with a continuous re-eligibility check (fingerprint/thumbprint match, fallback name+DOB)
an unseal/correction module triggered when a previously sealed record is determined ineligible based on the BCA criminal history system
automated notification to the Judicial Branch and downstream law-enforcement agencies
classification flips on the BCA's nonpublic records
a tamper-evident audit log preserving chain of custody for every seal/unseal event

HF3875|Ch. 71·Online court notices; perpetual restitution judgments

Chapter71§ 4

Perpetual restitution judgment docket and CVRB recovery tracking

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Judicial BranchCrime Victims Reimbursement BoardDepartment of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Court administration module that dockets restitution orders under 611A.04 as never-expiring civil judgments (notwithstanding 541.04)
tracks accrued interest under 549.09
captures partial payments and discharges
automates the Department of Revenue notification under chapter 270A (Revenue Recapture)
integrates with the Crime Victims Reimbursement Board's recovery cases including dual-payee judgments when the Board has reimbursed the victim

HF4052|Ch. 73·Telecommunications regulation modernization

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter73§ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13

Modernized PUC/Commerce telephone-carrier annual filings portal

Moderate

What the law does

Removes obsolete rate/coin-phone/promotion filings; eliminates the physical-Minnesota-office requirement; updates universal service to federal E-rate; requires residential pricing notice.

Implementing agencies

Public Utilities CommissionDepartment of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Refit the PUC/Commerce telephone-carrier filings system to the streamlined 237.11 annual report (company name, contact person, annual revenue, 911 update plan status) for local exchange and competitive local exchange carriers
eliminate the legacy filings repealed by Sec. 13
capture price-list filings under 237.07 subd. 1 and promotional offerings under 237.626 with 90-day resale rule
surface the CALEA capability certification from amended 237.069
replace the physical-Minnesota-office requirement with an online filings inbox
including E-rate-aligned schools/libraries discount intake under 237.164

Chapter73§ 11

HF4052|Ch. 73, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Telephone Assistance Plan administration

Moderate

What the law does

Removes obsolete rate/coin-phone/promotion filings; eliminates the physical-Minnesota-office requirement; updates universal service to federal E-rate; requires residential pricing notice.

Implementing agencies

Public Utilities CommissionDepartment of CommerceDepartment of Public Safety

Concourse software opportunity

TAP administration platform under amended 237.70:

applicant intake with SSN-keyed federal Lifeline eligibility certification under penalty of perjury
uniform statewide surcharge calculation as coordinator
provider-side credit posting and itemization with subscriber notification on non-itemized bills
annual provider notice mailings
surcharge collection and remittance to Department of Public Safety for the dedicated fund
complaint intake routed to Department of Commerce investigation
financial reporting reconciled against federal matching plan requirements

HF4075|Ch. 75·Uniform firearm-restriction procedure (transfers and compliance)

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter75§ 1, 3

Petition firearm-description capture in CHIPS (260C.141) and OFP (518B.01) forms

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Judicial Branch

Concourse software opportunity

Update the state court administrator's CHIPS petition (260C.141) and OFP petition (518B.01 subd. 4) intake forms and schemas to collect the petitioner's best-knowledge description of firearm types and locations believed possessed by the abusing party or respondent
enforce non-rejection rules (a petition cannot be dismissed for omission)
expose structured firearm fields keyed for downstream consumption by 518B.03 transfer orders
provide pro se simplified-form guidance and clerical assistance

Chapter75§ 2, 4, 6, 7, 8

HF4075|Ch. 75, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Permit-to-carry and permit-to-purchase surrender integration with BCA and chief LEOs

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Bureau of Criminal ApprehensionLocal law enforcement agenciesMinnesota Judicial Branch

Concourse software opportunity

Cross-system flow that intakes permits to carry (624.714 subd. 8) and permits to purchase (624.7131 subd. 7) when a subject is ordered to transfer firearms:

court intake of surrendered permits at the hearing
chief LEO acknowledgment workflow when surrender happens outside court
attestation of permit status in the 518B.03 proof of transfer or declaration of nonpossession
BCA permit-status updates that disable issued permits during the prohibition period

SF2971|Ch. 77·Bridge suicide prevention (Kayla's HOPE Act)

Chapter77§ 1

Bridge project scoping checklist enforcing suicide-reduction railing design criteria

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of TransportationLocal road authorities

Concourse software opportunity

Project scoping/compliance module under 165.16 subd. 2-3 embedded in MnDOT and local road authority workflows that applies the appropriate-and-feasible methodology to every bridge project whose scope includes railing replacement, alteration, or addition:

best-practices checklist
design-criteria enforcement under subd. 2 clause (3)
audit-ready findings retained against state aid bridge funding
a public-facing outcomes dashboard for completed implementations

HF3970|Ch. 80·Contract for deed termination for domestic abuse/sexual assault victims

Chapter80§ 1

Qualified third-party sworn certification workflow for advocates and clinicians

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Judicial BranchDepartment of Health

Concourse software opportunity

Digital workflow for qualified third parties (licensed health care professionals, 595.02 subd. 1(l) domestic abuse advocates, 595.02 subd. 1(k) sexual assault counselors) to issue the statutory sworn written certification under 559.206 subd. 1(k):

authenticated signer identity
structured statement of professional services rendered to the petitioner or co-resident child
perpetrator naming
downstream consumption by the petition intake portal
a credentialing/audit log to support evidentiary integrity at the 559.206 subd. 5 hearing

SF4171|Ch. 81·Tenant protections, digital rent payments, eviction procedure

Chapter81§ 3, 5

Eviction e-filing validation: no-minors rule and expedited-hearing affidavit

Moderate

What the law does

Lets landlords issue estimated final utility bills for vacating tenants; requires landlords using digital rent-payment platforms to offer a free working alternative and bars adverse action if both fail; prohibits naming minor children as defendants in residential eviction complaints; tightens the expedited eviction process (adds assault on landlords/employees, raises abuse-of-process penalty to $750).

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Judicial Branch

Concourse software opportunity

Update MNCIS and state eviction e-filing intake to programmatically reject residential eviction complaints listing a minor child as a defendant (504B.2136)
surface $300/actual-damages remedies when violations occur
enforce the expedited-hearing affidavit fields under 504B.321 subd. 2 with structured validation against the expanded basis (504B.171 grounds plus assault on landlords or their employees/contractors as defined in 609.02 subd. 10)
schedule the 5-to-7-day expedited appearance with 24-hour summons service
prevent consolidation with other claims (breach of lease, holding over, nonpayment)
assess the raised $750 abuse-of-process penalty

SF1750|Ch. 82·Common interest communities (HOA reforms)

Chapter82§ 14

Municipal/county permitting compliance against mandatory HOA conditions under 515B.5-101

Moderate

What the law does

Adds dispute resolution requirements; caps late fees/fines/attorney's fees; modifies notice and meeting rules; changes termination thresholds (67% for detached-only CICs); requires pre-litigation mediation for construction defect claims; prohibits retaliation; expands resale disclosure certificates; bars local governments from conditioning residential permits on HOA creation or terms.

Implementing agencies

Local governmentsMetropolitan Council

Concourse software opportunity

Update municipal/county permit
subdivision/PUD
conditional-use review systems so reviewers cannot condition approval on the creation of a homeowners association
inclusion of HOA-required services/features/common property (unless requested by the developer)
inclusion of specific HOA governing-document terms
or adoption/revocation/amendment of HOA rules (effective January 1, 2027 for common interest communities created on or after that date). Allow the maintenance-and-insurance-of-common-elements exemption and project-applicant access easements to public infrastructure while blocking other HOA-mandating conditions in the workflow

HF4063|Ch. 85·School bus USDOT numbers, first aid kits, training use

Chapter85§ 1, 2

School bus CDL training-event management module

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyDepartment of EducationDepartment of Transportation

Concourse software opportunity

District-facing companion module to manage CDL training events using school buses on public roads (training-use route logging under the expanded school bus definition, equipment-disable checklists for stop-signal arms and prewarning/flashing-red/supplemental warning lights, instructor sign-off, and commercial driver training school exemption recordkeeping).

SF856|Ch. 92·Office of the Inspector General

Chapter92§ Art. 1 Sec. 13

Public-facing OIG transparency dashboard

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Office of the Inspector General (new)

Concourse software opportunity

Public-facing OIG transparency dashboard for completed investigations
the annual report to the Legislative Inspector General Advisory Commission
inactive-investigation summary data (15E.50)
published on the inspector general's website

HF3709|Ch. 93·Virtual-currency custody services by banks and credit unions

Chapter93§ 1, 2

Commerce virtual-currency custody filings and examination module

Moderate

What the law does

Authorizes Minnesota-chartered banks (new 48.741) and credit unions (new 52.25) to provide nonfiduciary virtual-currency custody services, subject to written risk-management policies, customer-asset segregation, oversight of third-party subcustodians, 60-day prior written notice to the commissioner, and ongoing supervisory examination.

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Department of Commerce virtual-currency custody filings and supervision module:

intake portal for the 60-day prior written notice and risk-management framework
document policies and cyber controls
attest to customer-asset segregation and subcustodian oversight
plus a complementary examiner workflow tool that tracks each bank or credit union's custody program through ongoing supervisory exam cycles
segregation attestations
findings

SF476|Ch. 95·Direct Care and Treatment, DHS, and health services policy omnibus

Chapter95§ Art. 1 Sec. 2, Art. 1 Sec. 3, Art. 1 Sec. 4, Art. 1 Sec. 16, Art. 1 Sec. 17, Art. 9 Sec. 9, Art. 9 Sec. 10

DCT data-practices request, challenge, and disclosure tracking system

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Direct Care and TreatmentDepartment of Human ServicesOffice of Ombudsman for Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities

Concourse software opportunity

A DCT data-practices request, challenge, and disclosure tracking system tied to guardianship and ombudsman complaint routing:

data-subject rights intake under amended 13.04 subd. 4a
medical and personnel data classification (13.384, 13.43)
patient access to facility-employee information under new 253B.25
253D.19 sex-offender data handling
enforcement/logging of the Optum private-data dissemination restrictions and unredacted initial-report submission

SF4760|Ch. 97·Public safety omnibus

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter97§ Art. 4 Sec. 2, Art. 4 Sec. 3, Art. 4 Sec. 4, Art. 4 Sec. 5

MINNCOR PIECP wage and contract profitability tracker

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Department of CorrectionsDepartment of Employment and Economic Development

Concourse software opportunity

MINNCOR PIECP wage and contract profitability calculator integrated with DEED's wage survey (50th-percentile regional rates, PIECP versus non-PIECP positions, four-incarcerated-per-FTE cap with quarterly attestations) under amended 241.27.

Chapter97§ Art. 4 Sec. 1, Art. 5 Sec. 5

SF4760|Ch. 97, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Correctional-facility medication intake and Jarvis-order verification workflow

Moderate

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Department of Corrections

Concourse software opportunity

Correctional-facility medication intake and verification workflow under amended 241.021 subd. 4f and the licensing-policy requirements in subd. 1:

documents pharmacy
Prescription Monitoring Program
prescriber verifications
tracks intake Jarvis-order checks
captures clinically justified medication changes and discontinuations
links to discharge medication provisioning

HF1141|Ch. 100·Housing supplemental budget and policy

Chapter100§ Art. 3 Sec. 4

MHFA board meeting livestream and archive portal

Moderate

What the law does

Replaces MHFA's telephone/electronic-meeting statute with a broader 'interactive technology' framework: any MHFA board meeting conducted by interactive technology must be live-streamed and archived on a website, members at any location can hear all discussion and testimony, the public must be able to monitor remotely, and members on video count toward the quorum.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Housing Finance Agency

Concourse software opportunity

Public-facing livestream and archive portal for MHFA board meetings:

scheduled live video streaming of every regular
special
emergency meeting
automated recording and archival
indexed playback with agenda alignment
public remote-viewing controls
audit logs documenting compliance with the new interactive-technology open-meeting rules

HF4239|Ch. 101·Campaign finance street-address redaction and lobbying disclaimers

Chapter101§ 21, 22, 23, 29

Local government campaign finance redaction portal

Moderate

What the law does

Adds new 211A.01 address and street-address definitions, modifies 211A.02 to align with the new street-address private-data classification, and requires local governments that post campaign finance reports or statements to remove anything containing private or nonpublic data within seven calendar days of the act's effective date and repost the redacted versions within six months.

Implementing agencies

Local filing officers (counties, cities, school districts)

Concourse software opportunity

Multi-tenant redaction portal (or hosted SaaS) for cities, counties, and school district filing officers:

ingest existing local 211A reports
detect and redact street-address fields
enforce the seven-day takedown clock and six-month repost mandate
produce filer-facing redacted PDFs
provide a compliance dashboard so the Campaign Finance Board and local officials can verify completion

HF4240|Ch. 102·Election administration changes

Chapter102§ 1, 3, 4, 5, 16

SVRS clerk credentialing and early-voting reconciliation enhancements

Moderate

What the law does

Limits which municipal clerks may administer absentee voting to those whose municipality has come to a designation/notice agreement and whose clerk has technical capacity to access the statewide voter registration system in a manner approved by the secretary of state, has completed SOS-approved training, and has the hardware, software, and security prerequisites identified by SOS; requires recording and reconciliation of early-voting voter certificates against ballots removed from the ballot box; requires clerks to recompile signed voter-certificate counts at the end of each early-voting day; requires the SOS-county notification of which clerk is administering absentee voting; mandates a June 12, 2026 agreement notification for the 2026 state primary.

Implementing agencies

Office of the Secretary of StateCounty auditorsMunicipal clerks

Concourse software opportunity

Enhancements to the Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS):

a clerk credentialing and training-verification module that tracks which clerks have completed SOS-approved training and have met published hardware, software, and security prerequisites
an attestation workflow for new clerks before SVRS access is granted
an early-voting voter-certificate reconciliation tool that reconciles signed certificates against ballots removed from the ballot counter at end-of-day, flags discrepancies, and produces printed voter-certificate records
bar-code-driven absentee-ballot transmittal envelopes
a county-municipality designation registry that captures the new 46-day vs. 18-day administration scope

SF3720|Ch. 103·Workers' compensation 2026 WCAC recommendations

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter103§ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 14

WCRA excess surplus distribution and deficiency assessment engine

Moderate

What the law does

Rewrites the Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Association excess surplus distribution mechanism, adds a new deficiency assessment authority, defines insured employers as including assigned-risk-plan employers, requires recalculation of multi-year rates and exposure bases per policy year, requires commissioner-of-labor-and-industry approval (and commissioner-of-commerce review) of distributions and assessments, allows the WCRA to consider actual administration costs in the distribution amount, and updates the WCRA plan of operation.

Implementing agencies

Department of Labor and IndustryWorkers' Compensation Reinsurance AssociationDepartment of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

WCRA premium
distribution
deficiency-assessment engine that computes per-member and per-employer rates against multiple exposure bases (self-insurer, assigned-risk-plan, and insurer-member)
supports multi-year recalculation per policy year
manages excess-surplus distribution requests
runs deficiency-assessment calculations and timelines
produces commissioner-of-labor-and-industry approval packets
exposes the commissioner-of-commerce review handoff
tracks unclaimed amounts that remain with the association

Chapter103§ 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

SF3720|Ch. 103, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

DLI workers' compensation claims case-management updates

Moderate

What the law does

Allows assignment of active Office of Administrative Hearings compensation judges to the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals to meet quorum; recognizes psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners as diagnosing PTSD; raises attorney-fee caps to 20% of the first $275,000 of compensation (cumulative maximum $55,000); extends the period during which an employer may deny a claim from 60 to 90 days; updates the 14-day IME report-service rule; allows the commissioner of DLI (in addition to a compensation judge) to determine workers' comp cases based on stipulated facts.

Implementing agencies

Department of Labor and IndustryOffice of Administrative HearingsWorkers' Compensation Court of Appeals

Concourse software opportunity

Updates to DLI claims and case-management workflows:

enforce the new 90-day denial window with timer-driven notifications
apply the $275,000/$55,000 attorney-fee caps with the retainer-presumption notice templates
manage the 14-day IME report-service rule with status tracking
capture PMHNP-diagnosed PTSD claims under the expanded provider category
support commissioner-of-DLI stipulated-fact adjudications alongside compensation judges
route OAH compensation-judge assignments to the WCCA when quorum is short

HF3426|Ch. 104·ENRTF appropriations and DNR Community Grant Program reforms

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter104§ 3, 4, 5

LCCMR emerging-issues account approval and notification workflow

Moderate

What the law does

Creates a formal emerging-issues account within the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for issues that arise unexpectedly but adhere to the LCCMR strategic plan; limits emerging-issues spending to projects addressing an immediate threat to public health, the environment, or natural resources and conducted by a state agency; bars use on previously rejected projects or capital construction; requires affirmative votes of at least 12 LCCMR members; requires governor approval after LCCMR initiation; requires legislative-chair notification; and requires recipient final reports.

Implementing agencies

Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota ResourcesMinnesota Management and Budget

Concourse software opportunity

Emerging-issues approval and notification workflow for LCCMR:

structured project-eligibility screening (immediate threat criteria, state-agency-led requirement, exclusion of previously rejected projects and capital construction)
LCCMR voting and quorum verification (12-member supermajority)
governor-approval routing
automated legislative-chair notifications
conflict-of-interest checks per the revised 116P.09 rules
grantee final-report tracking with outcome capture

Chapter104§ 1, 2

HF3426|Ch. 104, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

ENRTF project dashboards (PFAS, water quality, geologic atlas, HAB forecasting)

Moderate

What the law does

Appropriates approximately $102M from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for roughly 80 LCCMR-recommended projects across resiliency, water, education and outdoor recreation, environmental learning, habitat, land acquisition, methods and data, and administration line items, including high-profile data initiatives (PFAS in precipitation, contaminants of emerging concern, real-time Red Lake Nation water-quality buoys, county geologic atlases, harmful algal bloom forecasting).

Implementing agencies

Department of Natural ResourcesMinnesota Pollution Control AgencyBoard of Water and Soil Resources

Concourse software opportunity

Public-facing ENRTF project dashboards and operational tools for the named appropriations:

a PFAS-in-precipitation multi-site dataset and reporting layer
a contaminants-of-emerging-concern occurrence dashboard for lakes and rivers
real-time water-quality buoy ingestion and harmful algal bloom forecasting for Red Lake and Lake of the Woods
county geologic atlas viewer expansions
a project-level outcomes tracker that LCCMR, DNR, MPCA, and BWSR can use to report on grantee milestones to the legislature

HF4074|Ch. 106·Omnibus retirement bill

3 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter106§ Art. 2 Sec. 1, Art. 2 Sec. 4

PERA Police and Fire Plan direct state aid and reduced postretirement waiting period

Moderate

What the law does

Provides $8,000,000 annual direct state aid to the public employees police and fire retirement plan (PEPFF) by each October 1 from 2026 through 2042, and shortens the postretirement-adjustment waiting period for PEPFF annuitants and benefit recipients from 24 full months to 12 full months and from 13-to-24 month proration to 1-to-12 month proration.

Implementing agencies

Public Employees Retirement AssociationMinnesota Management and Budget

Concourse software opportunity

PERA payment, postretirement-adjustment, and aid-tracking system updates for PEPFF:

automatic MMB-to-PERA direct-state-aid transfer of the new $8M annual payment with sunset on July 1, 2042
revised postretirement-adjustment calculation engine that applies the new 12-month-of-receipt eligibility threshold and the proportional 1/12 percent monthly accrual for partial-year recipients
updated annuitant statements and projection tooling

Chapter106§ Art. 3

HF4074|Ch. 106, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

SPTRFA direct state aid and decreased employee contributions

Moderate

What the law does

Decreases employee contributions to the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association and provides direct state aid to SPTRFA, with conforming changes to 354A.011, 354A.021, 354A.095, 354A.12 (subdivisions 1, 3a, 3c), and 354A.29.

Implementing agencies

St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund AssociationMinnesota Management and Budget

Concourse software opportunity

Updates to the SPTRFA payroll-deduction and aid-tracking systems:

lower employee contribution rate applied across all St. Paul teacher payroll periods
MMB-to-SPTRFA direct-state-aid transfer logic
postretirement-adjustment calculation aligned with the revised 354A.29 rules
member statement updates reflecting the reduced employee share and increased state subsidy

Chapter106§ Art. 11

HF4074|Ch. 106, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Health Care Savings Plan enrollment workflow for elected officials

Moderate

What the law does

Authorizes elected officials to participate in the Health Care Savings Plan administered by the Minnesota State Retirement System under Minnesota Statutes section 352.98.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota State Retirement System

Concourse software opportunity

HCSP enrollment workflow at MSRS that supports elected-official participation:

elected-office eligibility verification
contribution-source mapping (e.g., per-diem, salary, leave conversions)
participation-plan documentation
deferred-account establishment
reporting for state and local employers that elect to extend HCSP coverage to their elected officials

HF3067|Ch. 107·Paraprofessional qualification competency validation

Chapter107§ 1

Paraprofessional competency validation and credentialing system

Moderate

What the law does

Clarifies that paraprofessionals who demonstrate the 20 competencies listed in Minn. Stat. 121A.642 subd. 4(a)(3) satisfy federal IDEA personnel qualifications when their district or charter school validates the demonstration; requires the Department of Education to issue validation guidance by August 1, 2026; requires districts and charter schools to retain assessments and documentation in personnel files for department and federal review.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of EducationSchool districts and charter schools

Concourse software opportunity

Statewide paraprofessional competency validation and credentialing system (or template/SaaS for districts and charter schools) that ingests MDE's August 1
2026 validation guidance
lets administrators score and sign off on each of the 20 competencies listed in 121A.642 subd. 4(a)(3)
attaches the signed assessment to each paraprofessional's personnel file
produces audit-ready exports for MDE and federal Code of Federal Regulations title 34 section 200.58 reviewers. Could be packaged as a module of existing district HRIS/SIS or a standalone shared service across the roughly 500 districts and charters

HF3489|Ch. 108·Educator misconduct reporting and the new grooming offense

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter108§ 3, 4

CYF mandated reporter training platform with grooming detection module

Moderate

What the law does

Requires the commissioner of children, youth, and families, in consultation with MDE, to update the existing mandated-reporter training by August 1, 2027 to include the requirement to report allegations of maltreatment of students (including students receiving special education) and detection and reporting of grooming under section 260E.06; prohibits the commissioner's maltreatment screening guidelines from limiting screen-ins of grooming reports more than three years old.

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesMinnesota Department of EducationDepartment of Human Services

Concourse software opportunity

Updated mandated-reporter training and certification platform for CYF that adds the grooming detection and duty-to-report module by August 1
2027
tracks completions by educator and role (with delineation between special-education and general-education students)
integrates with district HR systems for compliance verification
updates the maltreatment-screening guidelines portal to remove time-based limits on screening in alleged grooming reports

Chapter108§ 10, 11

HF3489|Ch. 108, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MDE student maltreatment program case management expansion

Moderate

What the law does

Appropriates $1,451,000 in FY27 (with an ongoing base of approximately $1,442,000) to MDE for increasing the capacity of the student maltreatment program, alongside related Laws 2025 First Special Session chapter 10 amendments and a contingent-appropriation safeguard.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Education

Concourse software opportunity

Student maltreatment case-management platform expansion at MDE to absorb the new program capacity funded by the $1.45M ongoing appropriation:

county-screening intake that supports the new no-time-limit grooming screen-ins
structured assignment of additional investigators
evidence and interview management
MDE-to-district notification flows
deconfliction with CYF and DHS investigations
outcomes reporting

SF4339|Ch. 112·Excavation positive response requirement

Chapter112§ 1, 2, 3

Gopher State One Call positive response platform

Moderate

What the law does

Amends Minn. Stat. ch. 216D to require operators of underground facilities to provide an electronic positive response through the notification center for every locate ticket within statutorily defined timeframes, including marking complete, no facilities, or delay codes.

Implementing agencies

Office of Pipeline Safety (DLI)Gopher State One Call

Concourse software opportunity

Statewide positive-response platform integrated with Gopher State One Call ticketing:

ingests locate tickets
requires operators to log a response code (marked, clear, delay) per ticket within statutory timeframes
surfaces noncompliant tickets to DLI's Office of Pipeline Safety for civil penalty action
exposes excavator-facing dashboards confirming all facility owners have responded before digging
tracks emergency-ticket SLAs

HF3825|Ch. 115·Health occupations licensing modernization

7 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter115§ Art. 1

Acupuncture and herbal medicine scope expansion

Moderate

What the law does

Acupuncture and herbal medicine

Implementing agencies

Board of Medical Practice

Concourse software opportunity

Rebrands the Minnesota acupuncture license to encompass herbal medicine
replaces NCCAOM with NCBAHM as the certifying body throughout chapter 147B
broadens scope of practice to authorize basic diagnostic imaging
waived laboratory tests
low-level/cold laser acupuncture
dry needling/trigger-point needling
additional physical-medicine modalities. Drives updates to Board of Medical Practice acupuncture licensing forms
exam-vendor integrations
continuing-education program approvals
advisory-council composition

Chapter115§ Art. 2

HF3825|Ch. 115, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Athletic trainer practice and supervision overhaul

Moderate

What the law does

Athletic training

Implementing agencies

Board of Medical Practice

Concourse software opportunity

Adopts a BOC-aligned domain-based definition of athletic training
restructures the primary-physician supervision/prescription/protocol model
expands the 30-day undiagnosed-patient evaluation window to non-athlete patients
tightens limitations preventing athletic trainers from practicing medicine
chiropractic
PT
podiatry
occupational therapy
or dentistry without separate licensure. Drives Board of Medical Practice updates to protocol forms
renewal verification
complaint workflows

Chapter115§ Art. 6

HF3825|Ch. 115, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Social worker title protection for county agencies

Moderate

What the law does

Social work

Implementing agencies

Board of Social Work

Concourse software opportunity

Closes the county-agency exemption to social-worker title protection by requiring
beginning July 1
2026
that newly identified county social workers hold a baccalaureate or graduate social work degree or a board license to use the 'social work' or 'social worker' title
with a one-year grandfather for incumbents and protection for collective-bargaining rights. Affects county HR job descriptions
postings
Board of Social Work enforcement of unauthorized-title complaints

Chapter115§ Art. 8

HF3825|Ch. 115, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Marriage and family therapist reciprocity overhaul

Moderate

What the law does

Marriage and family therapy

Implementing agencies

Board of Marriage and Family Therapy

Concourse software opportunity

Replaces the discretionary 'substantially equivalent' reciprocity test with explicit statutory criteria:

a current unrestricted out-of-state MFT license
good standing with no pending discipline
no disqualifying convictions
a Minnesota jurisprudence examination. Requires the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy to update reciprocity application forms
develop or procure a jurisprudence exam
adjust verification workflows

Chapter115§ Art. 10

HF3825|Ch. 115, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Physical therapist supervision and direction reforms

Moderate

What the law does

Physical therapy

Implementing agencies

Board of Physical Therapy

Concourse software opportunity

Redefines 'direct supervision' for student physical therapists and student PTAs to require physical presence and exclude telecommunications
replaces 'delegation' language with 'direction' of PTAs
substitutes the every-sixth-session on-site observation requirement with a collaborative review (in person or via telehealth) plus documented discussion of the plan of care. Drives Board of Physical Therapy guidance updates
audit checklists
continuing-education changes

Chapter115§ Art. 11

HF3825|Ch. 115, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

APRN postgraduate collaborative-practice flexibility

Moderate

What the law does

Advanced practice registered nurse

Implementing agencies

Board of Nursing

Concourse software opportunity

Allows nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists to satisfy the 2,080-hour postgraduate collaborative-practice requirement with either a physician collaborator or an APRN collaborator who has at least three years of practice in similar caseloads
removing the prior limitation to hospital or integrated-clinic settings
except for non-primary-care/non-mental-health specialties. Requires Board of Nursing updates to collaborative-agreement attestations and postgraduate-hours verification workflows

Chapter115§ Art. 12

HF3825|Ch. 115, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Corporate-entity unlicensed-practice prohibitions across boards

Moderate

What the law does

Unlicensed health practice enforcement

Implementing agencies

Board of Medical PracticeBoard of OptometryBoard of Psychology

Concourse software opportunity

Extends the unlicensed-practice statutes for medicine (147.081)
optometry (148.61)
psychology (148.941) to expressly prohibit any non-natural-person entity from practicing those professions
in addition to existing prohibitions on unlicensed natural persons. Supports board enforcement actions and corporate-practice-of-medicine investigations against corporate
private-equity
platform structures attempting to deliver regulated services without licensed practitioners

HF4252|Ch. 116·Higher education omnibus

5 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter116§ Sec. 3

Developmental course enrollment disclosure and acknowledgment

Moderate

What the law does

Creates new section 135A.082 requiring any public postsecondary institution that receives state grant funds under section 136A.121 to give a student, before enrollment in a developmental course, a written explanation distinguishing developmental from credit-bearing courses and to obtain the student's signed acknowledgment that the student understands the difference.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota State Colleges and UniversitiesUniversity of Minnesota

Concourse software opportunity

Developmental-course enrollment gate inside student registration:

flags any course classified as non-credit developmental
surfaces the statutorily required written explanation distinguishing it from credit-bearing courses
captures a date- and identity-stamped acknowledgment
blocks enrollment until the acknowledgment is on file
stores it in the student record for state grant compliance

Chapter116§ Sec. 12

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

OHE student aid fraud denial workflow

Moderate

What the law does

Creates new section 136A.1212 authorizing OHE or a school to deny any chapter 136A student aid or grant application or award if the applicant submitted false, misleading, or materially inaccurate information, refused reasonable inspection or to supply reasonable information, or was determined by the commissioner or a court to have committed fraud or a material violation of law involving federal, state, or local government funds.

Implementing agencies

Office of Higher Education

Concourse software opportunity

Fraud denial workflow spanning OHE's grant and aid systems:

signal capture for false or misleading application data, refusal-to-inspect events, and external fraud determinations
case file with documented basis and applicant notice
denial action recorded against the applicant across all chapter 136A programs
downstream appeal tracking

Chapter116§ Sec. 60, Sec. 61, Sec. 62

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MN 529 College Savings Plan uncashed check handling

Moderate

What the law does

Adds a Minnesota College Savings Plan definition for an uncashed distribution check (any plan distribution check that remains uncashed by the payee for at least 180 days), requires the plan administrator to mark such checks no longer outstanding and credit the amount back as a new contribution invested per the account owner's current instructions, and authorizes OHE to use account data to share information with account owners about other postsecondary financing programs and resources.

Implementing agencies

Office of Higher Education

Concourse software opportunity

Plan-administrator workflow for 529 distribution checks:

180-day aging job that marks uncashed checks no longer outstanding
automatic credit-back as a new contribution to the originating account using the account owner's current investment instructions
account-owner notification
an opt-in data-share layer letting OHE message account owners about other postsecondary financing programs and resources

Chapter116§ Sec. 53

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Private career school conditional license workflow

Moderate

What the law does

Consolidates the prior conditional and probationary private career school license tracks into a single conditional license that the office may grant with statutory restrictions, including monitoring reports, collaborative consultations, teach-out or transfer plans, prohibitions on accepting prepaid tuition, prohibitions on new student enrollment, enrollment caps, alternative student-notification channels, enhanced surety bond above ten percent of net revenue, and submission of closure information.

Implementing agencies

Office of Higher Education

Concourse software opportunity

Conditional-license case management for private career schools:

deficiency capture
selection of restrictions from the statutory menu (monitoring cadence, teach-out plan, enrollment cap, no prepaid tuition, alternative student notifications, enhanced bond, closure-information submission)
scheduled review cycles
automatic surety-bond computations against the school's net revenue to enforce the enhanced bond restriction

Chapter116§ Sec. 41

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

OHE private career school records custodianship

Moderate

What the law does

Lets a private career school or distance education private career school reduce its on-premise retention of permanent student records from 50 years to no less than 20 years if it sends the records to OHE to hold for the remainder of the retention period, and removes the prior fireproof-depository and offsite-alternative requirements while preserving the 50-year overall retention and the surety bond for records preservation.

Implementing agencies

Office of Higher Education

Concourse software opportunity

Records custodianship service at OHE for private career school student records:

ingest at the 20-year handoff of transcripts
credits
grades
degrees
attendance periods
digital archive with retention scheduling out to the full 50 years (and the longer professional-licensure retention windows)
a transcript-issuance portal for former students

SF3432|Ch. 118·Capitol, judicial, and public safety security modernization

4 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter118§ Art. 1 Sec. 2, Art. 1 Sec. 3, Art. 1 Sec. 4, Art. 1 Sec. 11

Judicial branch and constitutional officer personal security services

Moderate

What the law does

Appropriates $6,062,000 to the Supreme Court (Art. 1, Sec. 2) for security for judicial officials, a judicial security unit, and security threat response; $60,000 to the Court of Appeals (Sec. 3) and $843,000 to the District Courts (Sec. 4) to implement safety and security measures; and $100,000 each to the attorney general, secretary of state, and state auditor (Sec. 11) for the safety and security of those constitutional officers.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Judicial BranchMinnesota Supreme CourtMinnesota Court of AppealsMinnesota District CourtsOffice of the Attorney GeneralOffice of the Secretary of StateOffice of the State Auditor

Concourse software opportunity

Protective-services and threat-response procurement across the judicial branch and constitutional officer offices:

judicial security unit personnel and operations
security threat response (with statutory authority for the chief justice to transfer funds to the court of appeals and district courts)
personal security and protection contracting for the AG
SoS
State Auditor

Chapter118§ Art. 2 Sec. 3, Art. 2 Sec. 4, Art. 2 Sec. 5, Art. 2 Sec. 6, Art. 2 Sec. 7, Art. 2 Sec. 8, Art. 2 Sec. 9

SF3432|Ch. 118, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Capitol Security operational and dual-track annual reporting platform

Moderate

What the law does

Restructures Capitol Security from a division of DPS to a section within the State Patrol (Art. 2 Sec. 5 amending 299E.01 subd. 1); expands State Patrol authority to provide security as provided in new section 299E.10 (Sec. 3 amending 299D.03 subd. 1); designates Capitol Security as the lead agency for investigating alleged criminal offenses in state-owned and state leased-to-own Capitol Area buildings (Sec. 6); transfers final authority for Capitol complex public safety to the commissioner of public safety (Sec. 7); and creates new Minn. Stat. 299E.015 (Sec. 9) requiring annual January 15 public and not-public reports to the legislature, the Advisory Committee on Capitol Area Security, and legislative leadership covering threat assessments, credible threats, personal security and protection instances, expenditures, security incidents, vulnerabilities, and recommendations; the not-public report is classified under section 13.37.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyMinnesota State Patrol

Concourse software opportunity

Capitol Security operations and reporting platform:

case management for alleged criminal offenses in Capitol Area state-owned and leased buildings (with written investigation-transfer agreements to other agencies)
tenant emergency-management training and exercise scheduling
advisory-committee meeting administration
threat-assessment and credible-threat count aggregation
security-expenditure ledger broken out by activity type and reimbursement source
vulnerability cataloging
automated authoring of the dual January 15 annual reports (public summary suitable for publication and the security-information not-public version under section 13.37 with controlled distribution to named legislative leaders)

Chapter118§ Art. 3 Sec. 2, Art. 4 Sec. 4

SF3432|Ch. 118, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

DPS Minnesota clearance grant program administration platform

Moderate

What the law does

Appropriates $905,000 in FY27 to the Office of Justice Programs (Art. 3 Sec. 2(d)) for the Minnesota clearance grant program, and establishes that program in Art. 4 Sec. 4 directing the commissioner of public safety to award grants to law enforcement agencies to reduce violent crime by increasing nonfatal shooting clearance rates, with priority for applicants that partner across agencies and demonstrate evaluation metrics; requires the commissioner to distribute 50 percent of program funding to applicants outside the metropolitan area; allows use for investigator and forensic personnel, overtime, evidence-based policies, training, technical assistance, equipment and technology, integration-focused information systems, victim-witness coordinators, and hospital-based violence intervention partnerships; requires biannual grantee reports including clearance rate impact and record management system integration capability.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyOffice of Justice Programs

Concourse software opportunity

Clearance-grant administration platform:

law enforcement agency applicant intake with priority scoring on interagency partnership plans
government collaboration commitments
investigator and unit evaluation metrics
statutory 50/50 metro and outstate distribution accounting
annual contract negotiation and term tracking
eligible-use validation across the eight enumerated categories (investigators, overtime, policies and training, technical assistance, equipment and technology, integration-prioritized information systems, victim-witness coordinators, hospital-based violence-intervention partnerships)
biannual grantee outcome reporting (investigations initiated, clearance rates, hires, training, technology, victim and offender demographics, and record-management-system integration capability)
state auditor audit support

Chapter118§ Art. 4 Sec. 1

SF3432|Ch. 118, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Attorney general financial crime and fraud subpoena workflow

Moderate

What the law does

Amends Minn. Stat. 8.16 subd. 1 (Art. 4 Sec. 1) to expand attorney general subpoena authority to include books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, agreements, and other documents or records related to law enforcement investigations where there is probable cause to believe a financial crime or fraud has been committed, including but not limited to fraud involving state-funded or state-administered programs or services as defined in section 299C.061 subd. 1 paragraph (b), and insurance fraud in violation of section 609.611.

Implementing agencies

Office of the Attorney General

Concourse software opportunity

Expanded AG subpoena issuance and tracking system covering financial crime and fraud investigations:

probable-cause documentation tied to a specific ongoing investigation
subpoena drafting and service workflow for the new record categories (books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, agreements)
custodian recipient tracking including financial institutions and vendors operating state-funded or state-administered programs
records intake with chain-of-custody
cross-reference to insurance fraud (609.611) and state program fraud (299C.061) investigation case files

HF4591|Ch. 119·State government operations omnibus

3 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter119§ Art. 1 Sec. 4, Art. 1 Sec. 5

Inspector General cross-agency data sharing infrastructure

Moderate

What the law does

Appropriates $262,000 (FY27, base $348,000) to the commissioner of education and $561,000 (FY27, base $1,272,000) to MN IT Services to support cross-agency data sharing with the Office of the Inspector General established in Laws 2026 chapter 92.

Implementing agencies

Office of the Inspector GeneralMinnesota IT ServicesDepartment of Education

Concourse software opportunity

Cross-agency data sharing infrastructure for the OIG:

secure pipelines and APIs between Education and OIG
identity and access management for inspector caseworkers
audit logging
schema mapping between agency record systems
operational dashboards tracking data exchange volumes
pending requests
SLA conformance

Chapter119§ Art. 2 Sec. 9

HF4591|Ch. 119, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Statewide RFP summary template platform

Moderate

What the law does

Further amends Minn. Stat. 16B.97 subd. 4 to require the commissioner of administration to provide a standard template summary page for grant requests for proposals, presenting key information (program purpose, applicant eligibility, funding availability and award structure, grant administration requirements, and the application process) in a clear, accessible format that supplements the full RFP.

Implementing agencies

Department of AdministrationOffice of Grants Management

Concourse software opportunity

RFP summary template platform:

structured authoring tied to underlying RFP content with the five required information sections
agency completion workflow with required-field validation
public-facing summary listing across executive-agency competitive grant opportunities
accessibility-compliant outputs that link back to the full RFP

Chapter119§ Art. 2 Sec. 4

HF4591|Ch. 119, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Legislative Commission on Cybersecurity continuation tooling

Moderate

What the law does

Extends the expiration of the Legislative Commission on Cybersecurity in Minn. Stat. 3.888 subd. 7 from December 31, 2028 to December 31, 2035.

Implementing agencies

Legislative Commission on CybersecurityMinnesota IT Services

Concourse software opportunity

Long-horizon cybersecurity oversight tooling:

commission member and meeting management
classified and unclassified briefing-document repository
cross-agency cybersecurity-posture indicators sourced from MN IT and executive-branch agencies
longitudinal incident
control
remediation trend reporting through the 2035 sunset

SF334|Ch. 120·Human Services Systems Modernization Fund

6 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter120§ Sec. 1

MMB modernization fund auto-transfer engine

Moderate

What the law does

Creates new Minn. Stat. 16A.2865 directing MMB to automatically transfer general fund money into the new human services systems modernization fund whenever the fund's biennial closing balance falls below $50M, capped at the difference between actual and projected general fund closing balance for that biennium; transfer must be completed by October 15 following the prior biennium.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Management and Budget

Concourse software opportunity

MMB closing-balance comparison and conditional-transfer engine:

ingests the biennial-end human services systems modernization fund balance and the projected vs. actual general fund closing balance
computes the lesser-of-two transfer amount
schedules and executes the transfer to the modernization fund by the October 15 deadline
produces an audit trail tying each transfer back to the source biennium's enacted vs. final closing balance

Chapter120§ Sec. 4, Sec. 6, Sec. 8

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Legislative Commission on Human Services Systems oversight portal

Moderate

What the law does

Creates new Minn. Stat. 256.0142 establishing the Legislative Commission on Human Services Systems with four House and four Senate members and cochairs designated by the speaker and senate majority leader; directs the commission to monitor and review reports from the advisory council and MNIT, evaluate Minnesota's state-supervised/county-administered model, identify legislative-action areas in governance, procurement, funding, data-sharing, privacy, cybersecurity, and accessibility, and submit annual recommendations starting February 15, 2028 (with $559k for administration via the LCC under Sec. 8).

Implementing agencies

Legislative Coordinating Commission

Concourse software opportunity

LCC-administered oversight portal for the new Legislative Commission on Human Services Systems:

cochair-rotation and member-appointment ledger
scheduling of biannual (or more frequent) public meetings under chapter 3.055
structured intake of the advisory-council annual report and the MNIT fund and modernization-plan reports
project-level dashboards showing status/risk/dependencies/federal-FFP across legacy and modernized human services systems
request-and-document workflow for testimony and data from DHS
CYF
MNIT
counties
Tribal nations
vendors
providers (with state/federal data-privacy gating)
recommendation-tracking from intake through statutory drafting
automated production of the February 15 annual report to the legislative committee chairs

Chapter120§ Sec. 10(b)

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

CYF economic-assistance policy manual consolidation and AI chatbot

Moderate

What the law does

Sec. 10(b) appropriates $1,074,000 in FY27 from the modernization fund to the commissioner of CYF to consolidate the economic assistance program policy manual and build an artificial intelligence chatbot; available until June 30, 2029.

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and Families

Concourse software opportunity

Two paired modules:

a structured authoring and publishing system for the consolidated economic-assistance program policy manual (single source of truth across cash, SNAP, MA, child care, and other economic-assistance programs, with versioning and effective-date controls)
an AI-enabled chatbot trained on the consolidated manual that surfaces policy citations to caseworkers and (in an authenticated mode) to clients, with escalation to human caseworkers, multilingual coverage, and a feedback loop that flags manual gaps for revision

Chapter120§ Sec. 10(c)

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

CYF income verification technology expansion

Moderate

What the law does

Sec. 10(c) appropriates $1,583,000 in FY27 (with FY28 and FY29 base $1,655,000) from the modernization fund to the commissioner of CYF to expand income verification technology.

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesDepartment of RevenueDepartment of Employment and Economic Development

Concourse software opportunity

Expanded income-verification service for CYF-administered economic-assistance programs:

real-time queries to IRS data, SSA wage data, Minnesota Department of Revenue records, and DEED unemployment-insurance wage data
consent-and-purpose logging that satisfies IRS Publication 1075 and SSA data-sharing rules
result caching with effective-date controls
integration with MAXIS, METS, the Sec. 10(g) rules engine, and the Sec. 10(d) secure applicant portal so verified income is applied to eligibility determinations without manual re-keying

Chapter120§ Sec. 10(h), Sec. 11(a)

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

CYF and DHS interagency modernization governance team tooling

Moderate

What the law does

Sec. 10(h) appropriates $3,265,000 in FY27 from the modernization fund to the commissioner of CYF, and Sec. 11(a) appropriates $1,810,000 in FY27 from the modernization fund to the commissioner of human services, both for an interagency governance team to support IT project implementation, cross-agency coordination, and engagement with counties and Tribal Nations (CYF appropriation includes funding for MNIT staff).

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesDepartment of Human ServicesMinnesota IT Services

Concourse software opportunity

Tooling for the joint CYF/DHS interagency governance team funded under Sec. 10(h) and Sec. 11(a):

cross-agency project portfolio and dependency tracking across the Sec. 10 and Sec. 11 lines
RACI and decision-log capture for advisory-council and Legislative Commission consultations
county and Tribal engagement workflow that captures comment
concurrence
dissent (feeding the ten-business-day commissioner-response trigger under Sec. 2)
resource-allocation reporting that ties MNIT-staff time and contractor spend to specific projects

Chapter120§ Sec. 12

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MNIT modernization-fund IT project execution

Moderate

What the law does

Sec. 12 appropriates $11,413,000 in FY27 from the modernization fund to the commissioner of information technology services for IT projects under Minn. Stat. 16E.50 subdivision 4; available until June 30, 2031.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota IT Services

Concourse software opportunity

MNIT delivery vehicle for modernization-fund IT projects under 16E.50 subd. 4:

project-level intake and statutory-eligibility validation against the seven authorized-use categories (eligibility/case management, enterprise architecture, legacy retirement, statewide shared infrastructure, data modernization and program integrity, interoperability, and automation/ML)
procurement and contract management aligned with the advisory-council consultation gate
milestone capture
structured outputs into the Sec. 3 multiyear modernization plan and annual report

SF4476|Ch. 121·Continuity of care, long-term care, behavioral health, and EVV omnibus

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter121§ Art. 3

Monthly case-management contact mandate for adult and children's MH TCM

Moderate

What the law does

Mental health targeted case management

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesCountiesAdult Mental Health TCM ProvidersChildren's Mental Health TCM Providers

Concourse software opportunity

Amends Minn. Stat. 245.4711 subd. 5 and 245.4881 subd. 5 to require at least one documented case-management contact every calendar month with a core-service component to claim TCM reimbursement
capped at two consecutive months of telephonic contact for adult clients. Drives EHR and case-management software updates capturing contact-type and core-service-component data fields
plus provider workflow redesign and audit-readiness work

Chapter121§ Art. 9

SF4476|Ch. 121, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Interpretive guidelines and DHS-employed certified-assessor team

Moderate

What the law does

Disability waiver administration

Implementing agencies

Department of Human ServicesCountiesTribal Lead Agencies

Concourse software opportunity

Adds Minn. Stat. 256B.04 Subd. 28 (effective July 1, 2028) requiring DHS to publish interpretive guidelines within 120 days of statutory, waiver, regulatory, or judicial changes affecting 245D, 256B.092, 256B.49, or 256B.4914, with reliance protection for providers and lead agencies
Subd. 29 (effective July 1, 2027) authorizing DHS to employ its own certified assessors to conduct MnCHOICES-style assessments on behalf of lead agencies. Drives waiver-policy advisory firms, provider compliance teams tracking guidance, and assessor workforce/training vendors

HF3629|Ch. 122·Credible allegation of fraud withhold

Chapter122§ 1

MA credible allegation of fraud withhold case management

Moderate

What the law does

Requires DHS to impose a payment withhold on MA providers upon a credible allegation of fraud, consistent with federal requirements (42 CFR 455.23), including notice, appeal rights, and lift conditions.

Implementing agencies

Department of Human Services

Concourse software opportunity

Credible-allegation-of-fraud withhold case-management module:

investigation intake
withhold-decision workflow
notice generation
appeal coordination with OAH
withhold-lift criteria tracking
federal CMS reporting

SF4401|Ch. 123·Cannabis industry regulation modifications

3 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter123§ Art. 4

Cannabis studies, annual market analysis, and required reports

Moderate

What the law does

OCM studies, annual market analysis, and reports

Implementing agencies

Office of Cannabis Management

Concourse software opportunity

Reorganizes Minn. Stat. 342.04 into discrete subdivisions for studies
annual market analysis
annual report. The annual market analysis must address license counts issued and recommended
market stability and supply sufficiency
the impact of unregulated sales
the status of the medical cannabis patient registry. Annual report is streamlined to regulated cannabis industry
illicit market
hemp commercial/consumer industries
potency trends
social equity progress
legislative recommendations
CanTrain/CanNavigate/CanStartup/CanGrow/CanRenew funding. Requires OCM to publish a psilocybin therapeutic use program feasibility report by January 15
2027. Drives OCM reporting/dashboard and market-analysis tooling

Chapter123§ Art. 5

SF4401|Ch. 123, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Statewide monitoring system data and applicant/holder public data

Moderate

What the law does

Cannabis data privacy

Implementing agencies

Office of Cannabis Management

Concourse software opportunity

Classifies data reported to OCM via the statewide monitoring system established under 342.05 as nonpublic
removes scoring and review data from public classification
adds application status (excluding social equity status) to public data. Expands the nonpublic data shield for license holders to include detailed business plans (site, security, operations)
accounting compliance data
vehicle disclosure forms required under 342.35. Notwithstanding the monitoring system classification
cannabis testing results maintained by businesses remain publicly available consistent with 342.61
subd. 5. Drives OCM data-classification reconfiguration of the statewide monitoring system and public records APIs

Chapter123§ Art. 6

SF4401|Ch. 123, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Local unit of government cannabis business regulation

Moderate

What the law does

Local government cannabis regulation

Implementing agencies

Office of Cannabis ManagementLocal Units of Government

Concourse software opportunity

Requires local time
place
manner restrictions on cannabis businesses to be adopted by ordinance and clarifies the zoning/State Fire Code/State Building Code certification process
including OCM authority to waive missing local certification while still enforcing location compliance. Repeals the prior interim ordinance authority. Adds a mandatory annual data submission from local governments performing retail compliance checks (business identity and license number, results, date/time, specific violations, and enforcement actions taken). Modifies the per-12,500-resident retail registration count to round up after each increment
includes macrobusinesses in retailer minimums
permits county-wide retail registration coordination with consenting cities and towns. Drives local-government compliance-check reporting infrastructure and OCM retail-registration tooling

HF4188|Ch. 124·Commerce policy omnibus

5 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter124§ Art. 1 Sec. 1, Art. 1 Sec. 2

Doubled annual cap and new per-consumer payment formula for the AG consumer enforcement public compensation account

Moderate

What the law does

Attorney general consumer enforcement account

Implementing agencies

Office of the Attorney General

Concourse software opportunity

Section 8.37 raises the annual cap on deposits to the AG consumer enforcement public compensation account from $5M to $10M and replaces the open-ended proration framework with statutory per-consumer payment limits (full payment of unpaid compensation up to $50,000, plus 50 percent of amounts above $50,000 capped at an additional $50,000). Creates administrative
outreach
disbursement workload to identify and pay eligible consumers from prior enforcement actions under the expanded fund

Chapter124§ Art. 1 Sec. 3, Art. 1 Sec. 4, Art. 1 Sec. 5, Art. 1 Sec. 6, Art. 1 Sec. 7, Art. 1 Sec. 8, Art. 1 Sec. 9, Art. 1 Sec. 10, Art. 1 Sec. 11

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Modernized lending and money transmitter licensing covering mortgage servicers, sales finance companies, virtual currency licensees, and consumer small loan arrangers

Moderate

What the law does

Consumer lending and money transmitter licensing

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Amends Minn. Stat. 47.20, 47.59, 53.04, 56.002, 56.01, and 56.05 to expressly extend lending authority and 'financial institution' status to residential mortgage originators and servicers under chapter 58 and to sales finance companies under chapter 53C, exempt licensed chapter 58 servicers from chapter 56, and require online chapter 56 licensees to display the license number on each web page
redefines the consumer small loan lender in 47.60 to include anyone who 'arranges' a consumer small loan, sweeping in lead generators, marketers, and other facilitators
rewrites 53B.74 to let virtual currency licensees keep matched-liability virtual currency on the balance sheet when computing tangible net worth
requires a chapter 56 license to arrange a consumer short-term loan under 47.601. Drives licensing-scope reassessment, online disclosure, and net-worth recomputation work across nonbank lenders, sales finance companies, money transmitters, and consumer finance lead generators

Chapter124§ Art. 1 Sec. 44, Art. 1 Sec. 45, Art. 1 Sec. 46, Art. 1 Sec. 47, Art. 1 Sec. 48, Art. 1 Sec. 49, Art. 1 Sec. 50, Art. 1 Sec. 51, Art. 1 Sec. 52, Art. 1 Sec. 53, Art. 1 Sec. 55, Art. 1 Sec. 56, Art. 1 Sec. 57, Art. 1 Sec. 58, Art. 1 Sec. 59, Art. 1 Sec. 60, Art. 1 Sec. 61, Art. 1 Sec. 62, Art. 1 Sec. 63

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Insurance lead generator regulation, appraiser notice duties, scrap metal recordkeeping, debt-services and bullion cleanup, and data broker penalty redirect

Moderate

What the law does

Insurance lead generators and consumer protection licensing cleanup

Implementing agencies

Department of CommerceDepartment of Public Safety

Concourse software opportunity

Adds 'insurance lead generator' as a regulated person under chapter 72A (72A.18, 72A.20) with definitions, a lead-generating-device construct, a record-retention duty for the current and two preceding years, expanded false-advertising coverage of email and Internet postings, and conforming penalty exposure under 72A.13
creates 82B.081 and 82C.031 requiring real property appraisers and AMCs to give the commissioner ten-day notice of application-info changes, adverse civil judgments, disciplinary actions, and felony or gross misdemeanor charges
expands the 80G.01 bullion 'Minnesota transaction' definition
broadens 325E.21 scrap metal dealer recordkeeping and copper license application requirements to cover entity sellers
excludes licensed chapter 58 mortgage servicers and chapter 58B student loan servicers from the 332.32 collection agency definition
updates 332.52, 332A.04, and 332B.04 to drop the prorating-agency reference and remove the proof-of-accreditation requirement for debt management and debt settlement registration
redirects civil penalties recovered under Laws 2026, chapter 72 (data broker law) to the 299A.708 victims-of-crime account
repeals obsolete 56.08, 332A.02 subd. 2, and 332B.02 subd. 2. Drives compliance, registration-form, notice-process, and recordkeeping work for insurance marketers, appraisers, AMCs, scrap metal dealers, debt managers and settlers, and data brokers

Chapter124§ Art. 3 Sec. 1, Art. 3 Sec. 2, Art. 3 Sec. 3

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

New financial-readiness reporting and corrective-order authority for insurers and HMOs with rapid enrollment growth, plus expanded HMO data sharing

Moderate

What the law does

Health insurer substantial enrollment growth oversight

Implementing agencies

Department of CommerceDepartment of HealthDepartment of Human Services

Concourse software opportunity

Enacts new Minn. Stat. 60A.071 and 62D.085 requiring accident and health insurers, nonprofit health service plan corporations, and HMOs with at least 25,000 enrollees to notify the commissioner by April 15 each year if total enrollment grew by more than 35 percent year-over-year (as of April 1) or grew above a commissioner-set product-specific threshold, and to submit on request a financial readiness package covering growth conditions, three-year projected statutory balance sheet/income statements/cash flow, key assumptions and sensitivities, surplus strain, risk-profile changes, mix of business, and reinsurance use
authorizes the commissioner to issue a chapter 14 reviewable corrective order
amends 62D.08 to authorize sharing nonpublic HMO data with the commissioners of health and human services, other state and federal regulators, and the NAIC subject to data-classification protections. Drives reporting, financial modeling, surplus planning, regulatory engagement, and data-sharing implementation work for rapidly growing health carriers and HMOs

Chapter124§ Art. 6

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

New virtual currency, prepaid funeral, and section 529/529A treatment under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act

Moderate

What the law does

Unclaimed property treatment of virtual currency, prepaid funeral funds, and 529/529A accounts

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Amends chapter 345 to add a virtual currency definition under 345.31
creates 345.382 presuming prepaid funeral funds abandoned at the earliest of three years after the beneficiary's death, one year after the beneficiary would have reached age 105, or 30 years after the prepayment contract
345.383 exempting property held in IRC section 529 and 529A plans
345.384 presuming virtual currency abandoned three years after the apparent owner's latest indication of interest, with safe harbor that third-party communications are not interest unless they evidence the owner's knowledge of a right to the property
345.43 subd. 2b requiring holders to liquidate reported virtual currency within 30 days before the 345.41 report and remit cash, with custodian-transfer or hold options when liquidation is infeasible and an explicit shield from owner recourse for post-liquidation gains. Drives compliance, custodian selection, liquidation procedure, and reporting-system updates for funeral providers, custodians, exchanges, 529 plan administrators, and other virtual currency holders

HF4492|Ch. 125·Read Act modifications, literacy field experience, and high school diplomas for veterans

Chapter125§ Art. 3

Mandatory supervised early literacy field experience in teacher prep

Moderate

What the law does

Teacher preparation early literacy field experience mandate

Implementing agencies

Professional Educator Licensing and Standards BoardApproved Teacher Preparation Providers

Concourse software opportunity

Effective July 1
2026
PELSB-approved teacher prep providers preparing candidates for early literacy instruction must require a supervised early literacy field experience aligned to evidence-based reading practices under 120B.118 to 120B.124
applicable to candidates enrolling in the 2027-2028 school year or later. The experience must integrate reading-methods coursework with applied evidence-based literacy practice. PELSB must adopt rules defining covered licensure areas
scope and outcomes
primarily in-building placement during the instructional day (with waivers for unique delivery models or hardship)
observation with actionable feedback aligned to reading standards. Drives field-placement coordination platforms
practicum host networks
observation/coaching tools
rule-development consulting

SF4612|Ch. 127·Health, CYF, and human services policy and supplemental appropriations

7 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter127§ Art. 1 Sec. 10, Art. 1 Sec. 11, Art. 1 Sec. 12, Art. 18 Sec. 3

All-Payer Claims Database expansion and statutory fee schedule

Moderate

What the law does

Health data

Implementing agencies

Department of Health

Concourse software opportunity

MDH must collect new denied-claim fields from health plans, dental organizations, and TPAs, publish authorized research projects annually, and assess statutory fees ($3,500 standard, $7,000 limited-use, $89/hour custom) for expanded APCD access
appropriations of $187,000 and $55,000 in FY2027 fund APCD administration and denied-claims data work, opening contracting opportunities for data infrastructure, de-identification expertise, and analytics vendors serving researchers and transformation efforts

Chapter127§ Art. 2, Art. 18 Sec. 4

SF4612|Ch. 127, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Gas resource development licensing framework and rulemaking

Moderate

What the law does

Natural resources licensing

Implementing agencies

Department of HealthDepartment of Natural ResourcesPollution Control AgencyEnvironmental Quality Board

Concourse software opportunity

MDH must adopt expedited rules for gas wells (Minn. Stat. 103I.706) and stand up a new licensing regime including gas well contractor licenses ($300), certified representatives ($100), rig registration ($125), $10,000 construction notifications, and $7,500 sealing notifications, with a $2,053,000 FY2027 appropriation through 2029 for rulemaking and administration
creates demand for rulemaking consultants, Tribal consultation under Minn. Stat. 10.65, geological and hydrogeological expertise, and a licensing/permitting IT system, although Sec. 14 imposes a moratorium on production wells until enabling statutes and fees are enacted

Chapter127§ Art. 3 Sec. 18, Art. 20 Sec. 5

SF4612|Ch. 127, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Advisory Task Force on Governance and Financing of Hennepin Healthcare System, Inc.

Moderate

What the law does

Health system governance

Implementing agencies

Health SubcabinetDepartment of Management and Budget

Concourse software opportunity

Creates a nine-member governor-appointed task force chaired by a Health Subcabinet member to evaluate ownership models, financing, payer mix, workforce, capital and infrastructure needs, and alternate governance/funding for HCMC, with $193,000 in FY2027 to MMB for administration
preliminary report due January 15, 2027, and final recommendations (including draft legislation) due January 15, 2028
creates engagements for health system financial advisors, comparative governance researchers, public sector counsel, and stakeholder facilitation specialists

Chapter127§ Art. 7, Art. 8, Art. 20 Sec. 6

SF4612|Ch. 127, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Medical assistance fraud prevention statute and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit expansion

Moderate

What the law does

Medicaid fraud enforcement

Implementing agencies

Office of the Attorney GeneralDepartment of Human ServicesOffice of Inspector General

Concourse software opportunity

Replaces Minn. Stat. 609.466 with a new graduated medical assistance fraud felony (Minn. Stat. 609.467) carrying penalties up to 30 years and $1,000,000, extends the AG's subpoena authority to wage, employment, insurance, banking, and financial records, designates the offense as a predicate for RICO, applies a six-year statute of limitations, and appropriates $1,230,000 in FY2027 (ongoing) to the AG's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
opens engagements for fraud-analytics platforms, investigator augmentation, provider-screening vendors, and forensic accountants supporting AG, DHS OIG, and county fraud investigators

Chapter127§ Art. 10 Sec. 2, Art. 17 Sec. 6, Art. 19 Sec. 3

SF4612|Ch. 127, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Crisis nursery licensing framework

Moderate

What the law does

Child welfare licensing

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and FamiliesDepartment of Human Services Office of Inspector General

Concourse software opportunity

Directs DCYF to design a new crisis nursery licensure pathway (defining the model, background study and training requirements, and resolving conflicts among Minn. Rules 2960.0510 to 2960.0530, 2960.3000 to 2960.3100, and chapter 9502, and Minn. Stat. chapter 142B), with $304,000 (DHS OIG) and $212,000 (DCYF) appropriated in FY2027 and additional FY2028 base funding for framework development and a report to the legislature by January 15, 2028
opens stakeholder facilitation, rules-drafting, regulatory analysis, and licensing-system configuration opportunities

Chapter127§ Art. 5 Sec. 1, Art. 5 Sec. 2, Art. 20 Sec. 7

SF4612|Ch. 127, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MNsure technology, operations, and easy enrollment program updates

Moderate

What the law does

Health insurance marketplace

Implementing agencies

Board of Directors of MNsureDepartment of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Repurposes a $2,330,000 onetime appropriation (transferred to the MNsure enterprise account, available until June 30, 2027) for information technology enhancements, system readiness, consumer communications, and operational changes to maintain service continuity, while modifying the easy enrollment outreach program (Minn. Stat. 62V.13) so MNsure provides general information rather than projected eligibility assessments
opens system integration, consumer-experience, contact center, and outreach-tooling work for the marketplace

Chapter127§ Art. 14 Sec. 1, Art. 14 Sec. 2, Art. 14 Sec. 3

SF4612|Ch. 127, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Direct primary care service agreements (Minn. Stat. 62Q.20)

Moderate

What the law does

Health care delivery

Implementing agencies

Department of HealthDepartment of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Authorizes direct primary care arrangements between physicians or APRNs and patients as non-insurance products outside chapters 60A, 62A, 62C, 62D, and 62N, with required agreement terms (written contract, defined direct fee, scope of primary care services, termination rights, refund of unearned fees, ban on health-status discrimination, and a 60-day notice for fee increases)
enables new direct primary care practice formation, membership-management software, billing platforms tailored to direct-fee models, and compliance advisory services, while excluding direct agreements from health-plan definitions and MNsure stand-alone dental coverage requirements

HF2438|Ch. 128·Omnibus tax bill

4 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter128§ Art. 4 Sec. 1, Art. 4 Sec. 2, Art. 4 Sec. 12, Art. 4 Sec. 13

Create seasonal tax base replacement aid for school districts and a onetime FY 2027 aid

Moderate

What the law does

School aids

Implementing agencies

Department of EducationDepartment of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Adds new section 126C.17 subd 7c creating ongoing seasonal tax base replacement aid (for districts whose class 4c(12) seasonal market value is at least 15 percent of combined seasonal and referendum market value), effective for taxes payable in 2027 and later. Section 12 establishes a onetime FY 2027 distribution capped at $2.542 million (prorated if oversubscribed) appropriated to the commissioner of education. Section 13 directs a special 2027 aid recalculation if Northern Township incorporates. Provides targeted support for resort and lake-country school districts.

Chapter128§ Art. 4 Sec. 5

HF2438|Ch. 128, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Raise class 1c seasonal recreational residential property tier thresholds

Moderate

What the law does

Property tax classification

Implementing agencies

Department of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Amends section 273.13
subdivision 22
paragraph (c)
to raise the class 1c (seasonal commercial residential, including resorts) tier I threshold from $600,000 to $1.5 million and the tier II threshold from $1.7 million to $3 million
keeping the existing 0.5 percent
1.0 percent
1.25 percent rates. Effective beginning with assessment year 2026
lowering effective property tax burden on Minnesota family-owned resorts and seasonal commercial recreational operators

Chapter128§ Art. 8 Sec. 1, Art. 8 Sec. 2, Art. 8 Sec. 5, Art. 8 Sec. 6, Art. 8 Sec. 7

HF2438|Ch. 128, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Impose 100 percent tax on amounts obtained through public-program fraud and fund first-tier rate reduction

Moderate

What the law does

Tax fraud enforcement

Implementing agencies

Department of RevenueBureau of Criminal ApprehensionOffice of the Legislative Auditor

Concourse software opportunity

New section 290.036 imposes a 100 percent tax (treated as a jeopardy assessment) on the program fraud amount certified by the administering agency after a state or federal conviction
with joint and several liability and proceeds deposited in a new tax relief account that the commissioner uses to reduce the first-tier individual income tax rate when accumulated funds support at least a one-tenth of one percent cut. Section 270B.14 subd 25 and section 299C.061 subd 6 authorize criminal investigative data exchange between DOR and the BCA Financial Crimes and Fraud Section
section 270B.15 adds inspector general disclosure (effective January 1, 2027)
section 289A.60 subd 6 adds a 100 percent fraud-refund penalty

Chapter128§ Art. 8 Sec. 17, Art. 11 Sec. 18

HF2438|Ch. 128, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Repeal job opportunity building zone (JOBZ) program statutes

Moderate

What the law does

Economic development

Implementing agencies

Department of Employment and Economic DevelopmentDepartment of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Repeals the JOBZ statutory framework in sections 469.310 through 469.3201
plus related provisions (sections 272.02 subd 64; 272.029 subd 7; 289A.12 subd 15; 290.06 subd 29; 297A.68 subd 37; 477A.085) and conforming sales
individual income
alternative minimum
minimum-fee references throughout Articles 8 and 11. Effective the day following final enactment. Local JOBZ communities
qualified businesses
DEED administrators must finalize closeout reporting and exit compliance procedures

HF2484|Ch. 129·Capital investment general fund

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter129§ Sec. 1

MDH drinking water capital portfolio

Moderate

What the law does

Appropriates general fund capital for MDH drinking water infrastructure projects.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Health

Concourse software opportunity

Capital project tracking for MDH drinking water infrastructure:

project intake
design review
construction milestone capture
outcomes reporting (lead reductions, system upgrades)

Chapter129§ Sec. 5

HF2484|Ch. 129, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

General fund capital portfolio tracking

Moderate

What the law does

Provides general fund capital appropriations across a portfolio of agency projects.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Management and BudgetDepartment of Administration

Concourse software opportunity

General fund capital portfolio tracking at MMB and Admin:

project-level milestone capture
fund-disbursement status
outcomes reporting

HF719|Ch. 130·Capital investment / 2026 bonding bill

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 15

Public safety local capital grants

Moderate

What the law does

Public safety

Implementing agencies

Department of Public Safety

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $19,000,000 to the commissioner of public safety for named local grants:

Eden Prairie ($2M public safety garage and storage)
Golden Valley ($2M fire station Phase II)
Hilltop ($2.5M tornado/emergency shelter)
Lake of the Woods County ($6M law enforcement and government facilities, exempt from Minn. Stat. 16B.325)
Mendota Heights ($4M city hall/public safety predesign and design)
Minnetonka ($2.5M Fire Station #2 reconstruction with 24-hour-operation upgrades, decontamination, and training space)

Chapter130§ Art. 1 Sec. 25

HF719|Ch. 130, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Minnesota Housing public housing rehabilitation

Moderate

What the law does

Housing

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Housing Finance Agency

Concourse software opportunity

Appropriates $17,500,000 to the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency to finance rehabilitation that preserves federally financed
publicly owned public housing under Minn. Stat. 462A.202
subd. 3a. Priority may go to proposals that maximize nonstate resources and to health
safety
energy improvements. The agency must split the appropriation equally between the metropolitan area and greater Minnesota
distributing greater Minnesota awards with the broadest geographic reach across Regions 1 to 10

Minor

Minor opportunities(44 across 24 chapters)

Configuration changes, narrow form additions, or small reporting hooks.

HF3544|Ch. 50·Veterans benefits forfeiture; admin structure

Chapter50§ 2

MDVA federal-VA forfeiture eligibility module

Minor

What the law does

Disqualifies veterans whose federal VA benefits have been forfeited under 38 U.S.C. ch. 61 from state veterans programs (chs. 196-198); adds a deputy commissioner for administration; repeals environmental hazards info program.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs

Concourse software opportunity

Extend MDVA case management with a federal-VA forfeiture status module implementing new 197.792:

ingest and verify USDVA forfeiture determinations under 38 U.S.C. ch. 61
flag ineligibility automatically at intake across chapters 196 to 198 programs
capture the basis for audit
generate compliant denial notices

HF3467|Ch. 52·MDVA initiative resource direction; annual report

Chapter52§ 1

MDVA critical-issues resource tracking and report generator

Minor

What the law does

Lets the commissioner of veterans affairs direct nonmonetary resources toward veteran food insecurity, homelessness, suicide prevention, etc.; requires an October 15 annual report.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs

Concourse software opportunity

Lightweight dashboard for MDVA capturing nonmonetary resources directed to veteran food insecurity
homelessness
suicide prevention
other critical issues (staff time, in-kind assets, partner referrals) tagged by issue area
with outcomes capture and an auto-generated October 15 legislative report to the governor and chairs/ranking minority members under new 196.22
subd. 6

SF3832|Ch. 54·DAIRI program eligibility for new dairy farms

Chapter54§ 1

DAIRI new-farm eligibility and payment-calculation enhancement

Minor

What the law does

Expands DAIRI eligibility to farms that did not market milk in 2022 (or only marketed part of 2022); payments calculated from federal dairy risk protection enrollment production history.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Concourse software opportunity

Targeted DAIRI enhancement:

new-farm applicant track
federal dairy risk protection enrollment data ingestion
revised payment-calculation logic

Delivered as a module enhancement to the existing DAIRI grant system (eligibility rule update, federal data integration, revised disbursement engine, audit log).

HF4133|Ch. 68·Homeowner's insurance coverage for peace-officer damage

Chapter68§ 1-2

Commerce complaint-intake tag for peace-officer-damage policy exclusions

Minor

What the law does

Bars homeowner's policies (issued/renewed on or after Jan 1, 2027) from excluding coverage for damage to an innocent third-party homeowner caused by a peace officer's use of chemical irritants, smoke screens, or diversionary devices; lets homeowners choose their own mitigation contractor and certified industrial hygienist; creates an insurer right of subrogation/reimbursement from the responsible local government with attorney fees if reimbursement is refused in bad faith.

Implementing agencies

Department of CommerceLocal government units

Concourse software opportunity

Small Department of Commerce consumer-protection complaint-intake category targeting homeowner's policies that improperly exclude peace-officer chemical-irritant
smoke-screen
or diversionary-device damage to innocent third parties under new 65A.304
with routing to insurer market-conduct review and a lightweight tracker for insurer subrogation-reimbursement disputes against responsible local governments

HF3827|Ch. 70·BCA reimbursements, crime data, vulnerable-adult OFPs, expungement

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter70§ 1

BCA crime data intake aligned to the FBI national reporting standard

Minor

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Bureau of Criminal Apprehension

Concourse software opportunity

Update or extend the BCA crime data intake portal so the form prescribed by the superintendent conforms to a nationally recognized system or standard approved by the FBI
with structured validation
agency submission tracking
aggregate state-level reporting to USDOJ under 299C.05

Chapter70§ 2

HF3827|Ch. 70, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

BCA undercover-buy and witness/victim protection reimbursement workflow

Minor

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Bureau of Criminal ApprehensionDepartment of Public Safety

Concourse software opportunity

Convert the legacy BCA grants module to a reimbursement workflow under 299C.065:

application intake from sheriffs and chief LEOs covering the six investigation categories and witness/victim relocation/protection actions
structured post-investigation accounting reports
witness-assistance summary reporting
biennial reports to the legislative criminal-justice committees on January 1 of each even-numbered year

HF4052|Ch. 73·Telecommunications regulation modernization

Chapter73§ 9, 10

Residential pricing-notice compliance attestation tracking under 237.66

Minor

What the law does

Removes obsolete rate/coin-phone/promotion filings; eliminates the physical-Minnesota-office requirement; updates universal service to federal E-rate; requires residential pricing notice.

Implementing agencies

Public Utilities CommissionDepartment of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Carrier compliance module that captures the new 237.66 subd. 4 residential price notice obligation (at service initiation, on customer change request, on customer request)
supports paper/electronic billing channels under subd. 5 with explicit opt-in records and a customer's on-demand paper copy at no charge
exposes auditable attestations to PUC and Department of Commerce examiners

HF4224|Ch. 79·Water discharge notification requirements

Chapter79§ 1

MPCA timely-notice methods-and-protocols guidance publication

Minor

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

Concourse software opportunity

Version-controlled publishing module for the MPCA-issued methods-and-protocols guidance for timely notice under 115.061 paragraph (d)
with operator self-certification of guidance review
change tracking against effective dates
integration with operator training records and permittee compliance files

SF4171|Ch. 81·Tenant protections, digital rent payments, eviction procedure

Chapter81§ 1, 2, 4

Landlord digital-payment-platform compliance and estimated final utility billing

Minor

What the law does

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Housing Finance AgencyPublic housing authorities

Concourse software opportunity

Landlord-side compliance toolkit (most directly applicable to public housing authorities and PHA-managed properties):

digital-payment-platform uptime monitoring with logged outages under 504B.118 subd. 3
automatic enabling of the fee-free alternative payment path
suppression of late-fee/eviction triggers when both channels fail
evidence packets to defend against the 504B.118 subd. 4 affirmative defense
an estimated final utility bill calculator for both submetered service (216B.023 subd. 3a) and apportioned service (504B.216 subd. 7a) with statutory administrative and late-fee caps from the immediately preceding billing period

HF4502|Ch. 86·Trusted contact program for financial services providers

Chapter86§ 1

Adult Protective Services financial-exploitation reporting portal

Minor

What the law does

Authorizes (does not require) financial services providers to offer customers a trusted-contact program for fraud, financial exploitation, lost-contact, and dormant-account situations; allows optional convenience/security accounts with view-only access; allows reporting suspected exploitation to law enforcement or protective agencies; grants civil immunity for good-faith conduct.

Implementing agencies

Department of CommerceDepartment of Human Services (Adult Protective Services)Office of the Attorney General

Concourse software opportunity

Extend (or build) a centralized adult financial exploitation reporting portal for DHS/county APS and law enforcement to receive structured reports from financial institutions exercising the new 45A.08 trusted-contact authority (intake form, case routing, dedupe across counties, evidence attachments, and response back to the reporting institution).

HF4240|Ch. 102·Election administration changes

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter102§ 11

Multi-county school district polling place designation tool

Minor

What the law does

Requires that at a special election conducted by a multi-county school district, at least one polling place be designated within each county where more than 5,000 of the district's registered voters reside, calculated as of the most recent general election.

Implementing agencies

Office of the Secretary of StateSchool district clerks

Concourse software opportunity

Polling-place designation tool for multi-county school districts:

ingests prior-election registered-voter counts by county
applies the 5,000-voter threshold to surface counties where at least one polling place is required
prevents school boards from finalizing a special-election polling-place resolution that violates the rule
produces a public-facing designation record that satisfies the resolution requirement

Chapter102§ 6

HF4240|Ch. 102, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Annual electronic election-law publication site

Minor

What the law does

Eliminates the requirement that the SOS print and distribute a physical election-law volume to every county auditor and municipal clerk; instead, by July 15 of each year, the SOS must prepare an electronic copy and publish it on the office's website.

Implementing agencies

Office of the Secretary of StateOffice of the Attorney General

Concourse software opportunity

Public-facing annual election-law publication site that ingests revisor-annotated election statutes plus attorney-general annotations
publishes by July 15 each year
exposes change-tracking against prior editions
provides search and download for county auditors
municipal clerks
candidates
the public to replace the printed volume

HF4074|Ch. 106·Omnibus retirement bill

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter106§ Art. 6

Probation and Telecommunicator plans temporary contribution reduction transfers

Minor

What the law does

Transfers money from the general fund to the new Probation and Telecommunicator Retirement subplan (MSRS) and the new Local Government Probation and Telecommunicator Retirement Plan (PERA) to fund a temporary reduction in employee contribution rates.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota State Retirement SystemPublic Employees Retirement AssociationMinnesota Management and Budget

Concourse software opportunity

MMB-to-MSRS and MMB-to-PERA general-fund transfer logic that funds the temporary reduction in employee contribution rates for the two new probation and telecommunicator plans:

scheduled transfers
reconciliation against employer contribution reports
tracking of the temporary-reduction expiration with automatic restoration of the standard contribution rates in the MSRS and PERA payroll-deduction systems

Chapter106§ Art. 2 Sec. 2, Art. 2 Sec. 3

HF4074|Ch. 106, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

PERA Local Government Correctional Plan contribution rate reduction

Minor

What the law does

Reduces the PERA local government correctional service retirement plan (Minn. Stat. 353E.03) employee contribution rate from 6.83% to 6.00% of salary and the employer contribution rate from 10.25% to 9.00% of salary, effective January 1, 2027.

Implementing agencies

Public Employees Retirement Association

Concourse software opportunity

Configuration and payroll-engine update in PERA's local government correctional service retirement plan administration to apply the new 6% employee and 9% employer contribution rates as of January 1
2027
with retroactive correction logic for any out-of-period reporting and updated employer-portal contribution calculators

SF4282|Ch. 109·Government aids forecast adjustments and Tribal contract school fund aid

Chapter109§ Art. 1 Sec. 2

Tribal contract school permanent school fund aid calculation and disbursement module

Minor

What the law does

Creates a new permanent school fund aid for Tribal contract schools equal to the per-pupil apportionment under section 127A.33 times the average daily membership served in the prior fiscal year, payable in the same manner as 127A.33 aid to school districts, contingent on voter adoption of the underlying constitutional amendment proposed in H.F. 3900 and effective for FY28 and later.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Education

Concourse software opportunity

New aid-calculation and disbursement module within MDE's school finance system for Tribal contract school permanent school fund aid:

ingests prior-year average-daily-membership-served counts for each Tribal contract school
multiplies by the published 127A.33 per-pupil apportionment
schedules payments aligned with the 127A.33 payment calendar to school districts
gated by the contingent-effective-date logic tied to voter ratification of the 2026 constitutional amendment

HF3298|Ch. 113·Single-walled steel piping prohibition

Chapter113§ 1

MPCA storage tank piping registry update

Minor

What the law does

Prohibits installation of new single-walled steel piping for new aboveground or underground storage tank systems regulated by the Pollution Control Agency; requires double-walled piping or equivalent containment.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

Concourse software opportunity

MPCA storage tank registry update:

capture piping-type at registration and inspection
enforce the single-walled-steel prohibition on new installations
flag historic installations for monitoring
generate inspector worklists prioritizing facilities with remaining single-walled steel piping

HF3900|Ch. 114·Permanent School Fund Tribal contract school constitutional amendment

Chapter114§ 1, 2

Permanent School Fund Tribal contract school constitutional amendment ballot question

Minor

What the law does

Proposes a constitutional amendment to extend Permanent School Fund per-pupil apportionment to Tribal contract schools alongside Minnesota public school districts, contingent on voter ratification at the 2026 general election.

Implementing agencies

Office of the Secretary of StateMinnesota Department of Education

Concourse software opportunity

SOS ballot question administration for the 2026 general-election constitutional amendment:

ballot-question text rendering across all ballot styles
voter information publication on the SOS website
post-ratification gating logic that triggers MDE to begin disbursing 127A.33 apportionments to Tribal contract schools

HF3825|Ch. 115·Health occupations licensing modernization

Chapter115§ Art. 4

Mortuary science internship and reciprocity reforms

Minor

What the law does

Mortuary science

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Department of Health

Concourse software opportunity

Permits mortuary-science interns to begin the 2,080-hour internship while still enrolled in an ABFSE-accredited program
recognizes alternate supervising licensees
replaces the 'substantially similar' reciprocity test with explicit criteria including national board exam
25 services/25 arrangements/25 embalmings
three years of out-of-state practice. Drives MDH updates to intern registration forms
supervisor tracking
reciprocity-evaluation workflows

HF4252|Ch. 116·Higher education omnibus

6 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter116§ Sec. 32, Sec. 42, Sec. 56, Sec. 57

OHE private career school licensing scope rules

Minor

What the law does

Realigns which persons, programs, and courses fall inside or outside the private career school licensing regime and which qualify for a limited license under sections 136A.821, 136A.822, and 136A.833: applies the licensing rule to persons/programs/courses rather than schools, expands the limited-license category to schools licensed by another state agency and to entities seeking eligible-training-provider listing, WIOA funding, or dual training grants, narrows the avocational and fine-arts exemptions, and triggers exemption expiration when a school modifies a program outside the prior exemption's scope.

Implementing agencies

Office of Higher Education

Concourse software opportunity

Licensing-scope decision engine inside OHE's private career school portal:

classifies each applicant entity
program
course against the revised exemption and limited-license criteria
routes financial-aid
WIOA
eligible-training-provider
dual-training-grant participants into the limited-license track with the trimmed Subd. 4
5
8
12 requirement set
flags exempted schools when a notified program modification falls outside the scope of the prior exemption

Chapter116§ Sec. 4, Sec. 9, Sec. 11, Sec. 15

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

OHE residency eligibility rule alignment

Minor

What the law does

Harmonizes the residency basis for eligibility across multiple OHE grant programs by replacing per-program "Minnesota resident" language with the cross-reference "resident student under section 136A.101, subdivision 8" (or, for the American Indian Scholars program, a resident-tuition-rate test plus a Minnesota Tribal Nation citizenship path) for the American Indian Scholars, Intervention for College Attendance, State Grant, and Postsecondary Child Care Grant programs.

Implementing agencies

Office of Higher Education

Concourse software opportunity

Eligibility configuration across OHE's grant-determination engines:

replace per-program "Minnesota resident" tests with a shared "resident student under 136A.101
subdivision 8" check (and, for American Indian Scholars, a resident-tuition-rate or enrolled-Minnesota-Tribal-Nation check) so all programs draw from one residency determination service

Chapter116§ Sec. 20

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Workforce Development Scholarship eligible training rules

Minor

What the law does

Expands the definition of "eligible training" for the Workforce Development Scholarship under section 136A.246 to include training that leads to an accredited certificate, diploma, or degree issued by a postsecondary institution, in addition to the existing instructor-led-majority requirement.

Implementing agencies

Office of Higher Education

Concourse software opportunity

Eligibility check inside the Workforce Development Scholarship awarding system:

accepts training programs that lead to an accredited postsecondary certificate
diploma
or degree as an alternate qualifying path alongside the existing instructor-led-majority and industry-recognized-credential rules

Chapter116§ Sec. 1

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MnSCU blood donation leave HRIS update

Minor

What the law does

Extends the state employee blood donation leave under section 43A.187 (up to three paid hours in a 12-month period with 14 days' notice and without effect on vacation, sick, comp time, pension, or seniority) to employees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities by removing the prior MnSCU exclusion.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Concourse software opportunity

Minnesota State HRIS leave-type configuration to add the section 43A.187 blood-donation leave for MnSCU employees:

time-off code with a three-hour cap per 12-month rolling period
14-day-notice workflow
protection from impacts to vacation
sick
comp time
pension
seniority accruals

Chapter116§ Sec. 2

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

MnSCU competitive athletic facility fee compliance check

Minor

What the law does

Creates new section 135A.0435 prohibiting the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities from imposing or maintaining a mandatory student fee or tuition increase for the purpose of maintaining competitive athletic facilities, while still allowing fees or tuition increases for athletic facilities used solely or primarily for general student recreation.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Concourse software opportunity

Tuition-and-fee compliance check inside the MnSCU budget and student-billing system:

tags each mandatory student fee and tuition increase with its purpose
blocks any item flagged for competitive athletic facility maintenance
produces an auditable annual report of fee purposes verifying compliance with the section 135A.0435 prohibition

Chapter116§ Sec. 63

HF4252|Ch. 116, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

U of M medical school for-profit funding report

Minor

What the law does

Adds new section 137.39 subdivision 2a requesting the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota to submit a biennial February 15 (odd-numbered year) report on medical school curriculum disclosing for-profit-entity funds used to pay teaching-faculty salaries, support new or existing medical school courses, and support medical school initiatives.

Implementing agencies

University of Minnesota

Concourse software opportunity

Reporting workflow at the U of M medical school:

tags general-ledger entries with for-profit-entity funder
course/initiative
faculty-salary purpose
produces the biennial February 15 legislative report broken out by the three statutory funding categories

SF3432|Ch. 118·Capitol, judicial, and public safety security modernization

3 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter118§ Art. 3 Sec. 5

POST Board Philando Castile Memorial Training Fund administration

Minor

What the law does

Amends Laws 2025 chapter 35 article 2 section 4 (Art. 3 Sec. 5) to increase the Philando Castile Memorial Training Fund at the POST Board from $4,942,000 to $6,000,000 each year for reimbursing law enforcement training in use of force (626.8452), crisis response, conflict management, and cultural diversity (626.8469), and autism (626.8474); requires course sponsors to submit application materials including course goals, outline with timeline and teaching hours, instructor qualifications, and learning-assessment plan, and requires recurring annual course review with sponsor-submitted learning assessments and licensee-completion records.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Board

Concourse software opportunity

POST training-reimbursement administration:

course sponsor application intake (goals, outline with timeline and teaching hours, instructor qualifications, learning-assessment plan)
board review and approval workflow
recurring annual course review scheduling with sponsor learning-assessment submissions
licensee-completion list and instructor-evaluation intake from sponsors
reimbursement disbursement against 626.8452
626.8469
626.8474 eligibility
carry-forward handling of unexpended first-year balance
data retention per the board's schedule

Chapter118§ Art. 3 Sec. 2

SF3432|Ch. 118, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

OJP youth trafficking prevention and young-adult reentry nonprofit grants

Minor

What the law does

Appropriates $125,000 in FY27 (Art. 3 Sec. 2(b)) for a competitively selected nonprofit grant to address youth trafficking and sexual exploitation in the Twin Cities metropolitan area through victim-centered and trauma-informed prevention and education with youth groups, recovery support groups, domestic violence support groups, and the Ramsey County correctional facility, and $125,000 in FY27 (Sec. 2(c)) for a Hennepin County nonprofit grant to provide community outreach, mobile case management, family reunification, aftercare, job attainment, follow-up, and housing placement for young adults up to age 24 reentering after juvenile detention or prison.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyOffice of Justice Programs

Concourse software opportunity

Two narrowly scoped OJP nonprofit grant administrations:

an RFP-selected $125K Twin Cities youth-trafficking and sexual-exploitation prevention award with Ramsey County correctional facility coordination and victim-centered and trauma-informed service tracking
a $125K Hennepin County young-adult (up to age 24) reentry case-management award covering mobile case management
family reunification
aftercare
employment
follow-up
housing placement
with disbursement and reporting workflows

Chapter118§ Art. 5 Sec. 5

SF3432|Ch. 118, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Law enforcement on-scene digital forensic preview toolkit for CSAM warrants

Minor

What the law does

Creates new Minn. Stat. 617.275 (Art. 5 Sec. 5), effective August 1, 2026, authorizing law enforcement officers and forensic investigators executing a search warrant for child sexual abuse material to conduct an on-scene forensic preview of seized electronic devices or digital media, limited to identifying, confirming, and documenting the presence or absence of CSAM under 617.246 subd. 1 paragraph (f); requires additional forensic analysis to be conducted in a digital forensic laboratory or other controlled environment under a separate device-specific warrant; requires forensically sound methods designed to preserve data integrity and admissibility; requires prompt return of seized devices that contain no relevant evidence; does not require a separate warrant for the limited preview when the underlying warrant expressly authorizes the CSAM search.

Implementing agencies

Department of Public SafetyBureau of Criminal ApprehensionLocal law enforcement

Concourse software opportunity

Field-deployable on-scene digital forensic preview kit and protocol:

mobile preview hardware and software with court-admissible chain-of-custody logging
scope enforcement that limits examination to CSAM identification and confirmation
automated documentation of the underlying warrant authority and preview steps
prompt-return tracking for devices without relevant evidence consistent with section 626.04
downstream integration with lab-based separate-warrant forensic analysis case management

HF4591|Ch. 119·State government operations omnibus

4 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter119§ Art. 1 Sec. 6, Art. 2 Sec. 11, Art. 2 Sec. 12

Public broadcasting grants administration platform

Minor

What the law does

Appropriates $1,825,000 in FY26 to the commissioner of administration for grants to public television stations (Pioneer PBS, Lakeland PBS, KSMQ, PBS North, Prairie Public) and $100,000 in FY27 to the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations (AMPERS); updates block-grant distribution rules for noncommercial public stations and lowers minimum staffing required for radio station eligibility from two full-time to 1.5 full-time professional staff.

Implementing agencies

Department of Administration

Concourse software opportunity

Public broadcasting grants administration platform:

per-station application intake across the five named PBS grantees and AMPERS
block-grant and matching-grant allocation logic
eligibility verification against FCC license class and the new 1.5-FTE staffing threshold
expenditure reporting
outcomes dashboard for legislative review

Chapter119§ Art. 1 Sec. 7, Art. 2 Sec. 15

HF4591|Ch. 119, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Hortman Memorial State Park Working Group coordination

Minor

What the law does

Appropriates $86,000 in FY27 to the Legislative Coordinating Commission and establishes the Melissa and Mark Hortman Memorial State Park Working Group with cross-agency membership (Administration, DNR, Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board, Minnesota Historical Society, legislators, St. Paul mayor) to recommend creation of a memorial park within the Capitol Area, with a February 1, 2027 report deadline and expiration of March 15, 2027.

Implementing agencies

Legislative Coordinating CommissionDepartment of AdministrationDepartment of Natural ResourcesCapitol Area Architectural and Planning BoardMinnesota Historical Society

Concourse software opportunity

Working group coordination platform:

appointment intake by appointing authority by the July 15
2026 deadline
meeting scheduling and minutes through the LCC
draft-recommendation collaboration across the five represented entities
public engagement intake
report generation for the February 1
2027 deadline including draft legislation

Chapter119§ Art. 2 Sec. 7

HF4591|Ch. 119, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Statewide agency cash-rounding compliance toolkit

Minor

What the law does

Codifies new Minn. Stat. 16A.402 authorizing state agencies to round cash transactions to the nearest five cents (with specific rules for 1, 2, 6, 7 cents rounding down and 3, 4, 8, 9 cents rounding up; $0.01 and $0.02 transactions round up to $0.05), excludes electronic and non-cash payment methods, and requires each agency to establish and post a written rounding policy at each cash-accepting location.

Implementing agencies

Department of AdministrationMinnesota Management and Budget

Concourse software opportunity

Cash-rounding compliance toolkit for state agencies:

configurable rounding logic for agency point-of-sale and cashier systems matching the statutory five-cent buckets
exemption handling for card
check
EFT
gift-card
money-order payments
location-by-location signage and posted-policy template generation
reconciliation reporting on rounded-vs-exact amounts for the general fund

Chapter119§ Art. 2 Sec. 1, Art. 2 Sec. 2

HF4591|Ch. 119, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Legislative chamber continuity-of-operations tooling

Minor

What the law does

Adds new Minn. Stat. 3.051 authorizing the chief clerk of the house and secretary of the senate to direct administrative continuity actions (acting officer designations, employee continuation, leadership-agreed new appointments, and administrative approvals) during the period between a new term commencement and the body duly organizing; amends Minn. Stat. 3.06 subd. 2 so the last elected chief clerk and secretary continue to exercise their duties until a successor is elected and qualified.

Implementing agencies

House of RepresentativesSenateLegislative Coordinating Commission

Concourse software opportunity

Continuity-of-operations tooling for the chambers and LCC:

status board for officer succession across term transitions
employee-roster continuity records
leadership-authorized appointment workflows during the pre-organization window
an audit trail of administrative actions tied to chief clerk and secretary authority

SF334|Ch. 120·Human Services Systems Modernization Fund

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter120§ Sec. 10(e)

CYF eligibility system modernization study and roadmap

Minor

What the law does

Sec. 10(e) appropriates $2,650,000 in FY27 from the modernization fund to the commissioner of CYF for an eligibility system modernization study and a roadmap for technology modernization.

Implementing agencies

Department of Children, Youth, and Families

Concourse software opportunity

Study and roadmap deliverable tooling:

structured intake of MAXIS, METS, MNbenefits, and county/Tribal eligibility-system data (accuracy, timeliness, disparity across counties and Tribes)
an enterprise-architecture target-state model that names which legacy systems are replaced, consolidated, or modernized
a sequencing and dependencies map aligned with the Sec. 3 multiyear modernization plan
a federal-financial-participation cost model and procurement plan that the advisory council and Legislative Commission can review

Chapter120§ Sec. 11(b)

SF334|Ch. 120, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

DHS MAXIS and METS administration during modernization

Minor

What the law does

Sec. 11(b) appropriates $9,660,000 in FY27 from the modernization fund to the commissioner of human services for administration of MAXIS and METS system improvements under Minn. Stat. 16E.50 subdivision 4; available until June 30, 2029.

Implementing agencies

Department of Human Services

Concourse software opportunity

Operational tooling at DHS to administer MAXIS and METS through the modernization period:

vendor-management portal
change and incident tracking
defect intake and resolution against the new Sec. 10(a) integration layer and Sec. 10(g) rules engine
progressive cutover scheduling that lets caseworker cohorts migrate from the green-screen UI (Sec. 10(f)) without losing access to legacy MAXIS
decommissioning checklists that feed the Sec. 3 annual report's 'legacy systems decommissioned' metric

HF4188|Ch. 124·Commerce policy omnibus

2 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter124§ Art. 5

Eliminated prescription drug affordability advisory council with conforming conflict-of-interest and product-identification cleanup

Minor

What the law does

Prescription drug affordability advisory council elimination

Implementing agencies

Department of Commerce

Concourse software opportunity

Repeals Minn. Stat. 62J.88 (Prescription Drug Affordability Advisory Council) and 62J.86 subd. 2 (board duties dependent on council consultation)
conforms 62J.89 subds. 1 and 2 (conflict-of-interest scope and disclosure) and 62J.90 subd. 2 (selected drug product identification) to remove references to the advisory council. Drives limited governance
staffing reassignment
board-process update work at the Prescription Drug Affordability Board

Chapter124§ Art. 7

HF4188|Ch. 124, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Insurance annual statement deadline shift, ASTM fuel specification cleanup, expanded paddlewheel prizes, hasenpfeffer card-game safe harbor, and bank/student-loan technical updates

Minor

What the law does

Technical, fuel, gambling, and miscellaneous commerce changes

Implementing agencies

Department of CommerceMinnesota Gambling Control BoardDepartment of Agriculture

Concourse software opportunity

Moves the insurance annual statement filing deadline from March 1 to April 30 (May 31 for health) and pushes the no-new-business deadline to August 31, while replacing the AG-recommended hardship extension showing with a written carrier request received before default (60A.13, 72A.061)
strips version-year suffixes from roughly twenty-five ASTM fuel specification cross-references in 41A.09, 239.761, 239.77, and 296A.01 so the cited specifications track the current ASTM edition
updates the 48.195 usury reference from the Ninth Federal Reserve District to the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
tightens bank merger and consolidation certificate language under 49.37 and a typographical 'insure to ensure' fix in 46.044
trims the 58B.051 student loan lender registration provisions
under 349.211, allows merchandise paddlewheel prizes up to $200, raises the paddle ticket maximum sale price from $2 to $5, and excludes cash-redeemable gift cards from 'merchandise prize'
adds 'hasenpfeffer' to the 609.761 social skill game safe harbor
repeals obsolete 48.158. Drives annual-statement workflow updates, charitable gambling pricing and prize updates, fuel specification testing reference cleanup, and small product-rate-disclosure work

HF4492|Ch. 125·Read Act modifications, literacy field experience, and high school diplomas for veterans

Chapter125§ Art. 2

High school diplomas for Korean Conflict and Vietnam War veterans

Minor

What the law does

Honorary high school diplomas for wartime veterans

Implementing agencies

School DistrictsCharter SchoolsMinnesota Department of Veterans AffairsCounty Veteran Service Officers

Concourse software opportunity

New Minn. Stat. 127A.135 requires districts and charter schools to issue a high school diploma, upon request, to veterans (as defined in 197.447) who served during the Korean Conflict (June 27, 1950 to January 31, 1955) or the Vietnam War (in country November 1, 1955 to May 7, 1975, or out of country August 5, 1964 to May 7, 1975) and were unable to finish high school. Veterans may self-request or family members may request posthumously
diploma is awarded based on military/lived experience. Districts may require proof of past MN enrollment or current MN residency
no reporting required. MDVA and county VSOs may help verify discharge paperwork. Limited procurement footprint, primarily ceremonial/administrative

SF2077|Ch. 126·Legacy Fund appropriations, state lands, AURI, and Iron Range UI

4 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter126§ Art. 2 Sec. 1, Art. 2 Sec. 2, Art. 2 Sec. 3, Art. 2 Sec. 4, Art. 2 Sec. 5, Art. 2 Sec. 6

Statutory amendments to Greater MN Regional Parks and Trails Commission and grant-availability extensions

Minor

What the law does

Greater MN Regional Parks and Trails Commission statutes and prior parks-and-trails grant extensions

Implementing agencies

Department of Natural ResourcesGreater Minnesota Regional Parks and Trails Commission

Concourse software opportunity

Art. 2 contains no new Parks and Trails Fund FY27 appropriations. Sec. 1-4 amend Minn. Stat. 85.536 governing the Greater MN Regional Parks and Trails Commission (districts and planning, recommendations consistent with master plans, biennial chair election, January 15 annual report by district instead of priority order)
Sec. 5 extends availability of prior Parks and Trails Fund grants (St. Louis-Lake Counties RRA Mesabi Trail, Olmsted County Oxbow Park/Zollman Zoo, Stearns County Kraemer Lake/Wildwood, Redwood County Plum Creek, Sandstone Robinson Quarry, and partner-coordination dollars) to June 30, 2027 or 2028
Sec. 6 repeals 85.536 subdivisions 3 and 4. Modest opportunity in commission workflow updates and grant-extension tracking, no greenfield platform build

Chapter126§ Art. 3

SF2077|Ch. 126, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

ACHF Department of Administration grant-list amendments (Laws 2023 ch. 40 art. 4 sec. 2 subd. 6)

Minor

What the law does

Modifications to prior Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund Department of Administration grant list

Implementing agencies

Department of Administration

Concourse software opportunity

Art. 3 contains no new ACHF FY27 appropriations. It amends Laws 2023
chapter 40
article 4
section 2
subdivision 6 (as previously amended by Laws 2025, ch. 36, art. 4, sec. 15) to adjust the Department of Administration's existing ACHF grant list
which directs funds to Minnesota Public Radio
Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations
Minnesota Public Television Association
Como Park Zoo
Science Museum of Minnesota
Wilderness Inquiry
Lake Superior Zoo
Great Lakes Aquarium
Minnesota State Band
Hmong Cultural Center
Somali Museum
Minnesota Museum of American Art
roughly 25 other named cultural and heritage grantees. Most changes are recipient/use clarifications and grant-availability date extensions (notably the Suni Lee art installation grant extended to June 30, 2028). Limited procurement opportunity beyond grant-list administrative updates

Chapter126§ Art. 5

SF2077|Ch. 126, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

AURI legal-costs appropriation

Minor

What the law does

Agricultural Utilization Research Institute appropriation

Implementing agencies

Agricultural Utilization Research Institute

Concourse software opportunity

AURI project grants tracker:

$80,000 onetime FY26 general-fund appropriation to AURI for legal costs, available through June 30, 2029. Very narrow appropriation
only modest opportunity to extend an existing AURI project/grants tracker to cover legal-cost encumbrance and 645.435 duplicate-appropriation handling

Chapter126§ Art. 6

SF2077|Ch. 126, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

Iron Range additional unemployment benefits

Minor

What the law does

Iron ore mining additional unemployment benefits program

Implementing agencies

Department of Employment and Economic Development

Concourse software opportunity

Iron Range UI fund disbursement:

creates a narrowly scoped additional-UI benefits program (up to 26 weeks) for workers laid off Nov 1
2025 to Mar 15
2026 from qualifying iron ore mining or explosives manufacturing employers
with interaction rules against new regular benefit accounts and federal TRA

Implementation is a DEED UI-system rules change rather than a standalone platform build.

HF2438|Ch. 128·Omnibus tax bill

Chapter128§ Art. 3 Sec. 1

Sales tax exemption for PGA world championship golf tournament admissions

Minor

What the law does

Sales and use taxes

Implementing agencies

Department of Revenue

Concourse software opportunity

Adds new subdivision 9a to section 297A.68 exempting admissions to a Professional Golfers' Association of America world championship golf tournament and related PGA-sponsored events from sales tax
effective for sales and purchases made after June 30
2026 and expiring July 1
2030. Provides direct fiscal benefit to tournament organizers and host venues and supports Minnesota's bid economics for the 2028 PGA Championship and related events

HF2484|Ch. 129·Capital investment general fund

3 opportunities in this chapter

Chapter129§ Sec. 2

DOT radar and traffic management upgrades

Minor

What the law does

Appropriates general fund capital for DOT radar and traffic-management technology upgrades.

Implementing agencies

Department of Transportation

Concourse software opportunity

DOT radar and traffic-management technology portfolio tracking:

project intake
vendor coordination
installation milestones
operations reporting

Chapter129§ Sec. 3

HF2484|Ch. 129, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

PCA waste study deliverables

Minor

What the law does

Appropriates general fund capital for a PCA waste study.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

Concourse software opportunity

PCA waste study data collection and reporting tooling:

data ingestion across waste streams
analysis workbench
structured legislative report deliverables

Chapter129§ Sec. 4

HF2484|Ch. 129, 2026 Minnesota Session Laws

474A housing bond allocation

Minor

What the law does

Adjusts the 474A housing bond allocation limit.

Implementing agencies

Minnesota Housing Finance AgencyMMB

Concourse software opportunity

Updated 474A housing bond allocation tooling at MHFA:

revised limit configuration
allocation request intake
allocation tracking
federal cap monitoring

Cross-cutting summary

Distribution by opportunity tier

Headline
37 (13%)
Strong
88 (31%)
Moderate
89 (31%)
Minor
44 (15%)
None
30 (10%)

258 of 288 section-level opportunities carry at least a minor software pickup. The remaining 30 are ceremonial, definitional, or pure-statutory edits with no state system to build.

Most-mentioned agencies (actionable sections only)

Recurring Concourse product categories

Licensing & credentialing platformsGrant management portalsRegistry & disclosure searchInspection & compliance case managementProvider screening & background checksPublic-facing data lookupsLegislative-report generatorsE-filing & e-signature workflowsNotification & opt-in registriesHealth-care benefits & subsidy administration

About this report

Each section-level summary is derived from the authoritative session law text published by the Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Omnibus chapters are decomposed into their constituent sections so that each Concourse opportunity is independently scoped, scoped to its sponsoring agency, and rated. Tiers, agency assignments, and product suggestions are Concourse’s own editorial reading and are not affiliated with or endorsed by the State of Minnesota. Tiers reflect software build size, not policy significance.