Senate Bill Introductions
SF 3209 (McEwen): Requiring IOUs to study virtual power plants in their integrated resource plans and to implement a virtual power plant tariff. See also Companion Bill HF 2986.
Status: Introduced 4/1/25; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 3732 (Kunesh): Exempting tribal lands from electric service territory laws. See also Companion Bill HF 3458.
Status: Introduced 2/23/26; referred to Senate Energy, Utilities, Environment, & Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 3760 (Frentz): Exempting upgrade or rebuilding of certain existing high-voltage lines from the Certificate of Need process. See also Companion Bill HF 3802.
Status: Introduced 2/23/26; referred to Senate Energy, Utilities, Environment, & Climate. Set for hearing 3/16/26; passed to Senate floor on a voice vote. Substituted HF 3802 for SF 3760 on the floor. See HF 3802.
SF 3792 (Dibble): Limiting the fees that recreational camping owners can charge renters for utilities. See also Companion Bill HF 3733.
Status: Introduced 2/23/26; referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection. No further action recorded this session.
SF 3800 (Hoffman): Naming the state Community Solar Garden program for Melissa Hortman. See also Companion Bill HF 3556.
Status: Introduced 2/23/26; referred to Commerce & Consumer Protection. Set for hearing 3/9/26. Passed to Senate floor on a voice vote 3/9/26. Second reading 3/11/26. House bill HF 3556 substituted on floor for Senate bill. See HF 3556.
SF 3853 (Johnson Stewart): Modifying the surcharges for EVs. See also Companion Bill HF 3430.
Status: Introduced 2/26/26; referred to Transportation. No further action recorded this session.
SF 3873 (Kupec): Allowing plug-in solar devices to be installed without interconnection/utility notice. See also Companion Bill HF 3555.
Status: Introduced 2/26/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment & Climate. Set for hearing 3/11/26. Re-set for hearing 3/16/26; laid over. See Senate Energy Omnibus bill SF 4504. Provisions were not adopted into another bill; Senate Energy Omnibus bill (SF 4504) did not pass.
SF 3968 (McEwen): Regarding water acquisition, energy efficiency requirements, electric energy use, and other environmental application requirements for data centers. See Companion Bill HF 2928.
Status: Introduced 2/26/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment & Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 3991 (Dibble): Prohibiting utilities from charging reconnection fees or late fees in certain circumstances. See Companion Bill HF 3912.
Status: Introduced 3/2/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 3992 (Dibble): Requiring “affordability” to be considered and examined in rate cases. See Companion Bill HF 3777.
Status: Introduced 3/2/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4002 (McEwen): Requiring IOUs and other rate-regulated entities to supply an annual report on the total authorized revenue for each year. See Companion Bill HF 3778.
Status: Introduced 3/2/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4051 (Jasinski): Payment of certain local government utility costs when relocating part of a trunk highway. See Companion Bill HF 4103.
Status: Introduced 3/2/26; referred to Transportation. Laid over 3/9/26. Referred to Rules and Administration on 4/20/26. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4059 (Marty): Omnibus Senate Supplemental Finance Bill. Companion Bill HF 3963.
Status: Amended and passed out of Finance committee 5/4/26. Second reading 5/4/26. Passed Senate (35-31) 5/5/26. Failed to move forward in the House. Nuclear study funding placed in HF 2438 and passed.
SF 4126 (Johnson Stewart): Setting up a strict liability standard to be applied to businesses extracting fossil fuels or refining crude oil and emitting greenhouse gases. It allows the state to seek cost recovery payments from responsible parties due to climate and other damage attributable to the parties’ greenhouse gas emission. See Companion Bill HF 3945.
Status: Introduced 3/4/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4163 (Jasinski): Repealing the transportation greenhouse gas impact assessment. See Companion Bill HF 4113.
Status: Introduced 3/5/26; referred to Transportation. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4203 (Maye Quade): Repealing and revising portions of tax exemptions previously passed for data centers. See Companion Bill HF 4173.
Status: Introduced 3/9/26; referred to Taxes. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4226 (Mathews): Prioritizing certain non-profits when awarding state energy grants. See Companion bill HF 3686.
Status: Introduced 3/9/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4278 (Xiong): Requiring additional information by utilities for rail crossings; allowing railroad flagging services at crossing upon written justification; utility pays flagging fees. See Companion Bill HF 4051.
Status: Introduced 3/9/26; referred to Transportation. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4281 (Hemmingsen-Jaeger): Establishing requirements for Thermal energy network plans (for IOUs). See Companion Bill HF 4122.
Status: Introduced 3/9/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate. Laid over 3/25/26. See Senate Omnibus Energy Bill SF 4504.
SF 4296 (Maye Quade): Requiring public hearings and local zoning or approval for data center development. See Companion Bill HF 4512.
Status: Introduced 3/9/26; referred to State & Local Government. Set for hearing 3/17/26. Passed committee on voice vote to the floor 3/17/26. Second reading 3/18/26. See Omnibus State and Local Government bill SF 4555.
SF 4298 (McEwen): Setting a one-year moratorium on data centers. See also Companion Bill HF 4888
Status: Introduced 3/9/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4379 (Maye Quade): A bill banning NDAs for municipals and political subdivisions. See Companion Bill HF 4077.
Status: Introduced 3/11/26; referred to State & Local Government. Set for hearing 3/17/26. Committee amended bill and sent to Senate Judiciary 3/19/26. Set for hearing 3/27/26. Amended to exclude municipal power agencies from the bill; passed and sent to the floor. Second reading 4/7/26. See Omnibus State and Local Government bill SF 4555.
SF 4450 (Dibble): Transferring funds from the RDA to a pre-weatherization account. Companion Bill HF 4189.
Status: Introduced 3/17/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. Set for hearing 3/18/26. Laid over 3/18/26. See Senate Energy Omnibus bill SF 4504.
SF 4463 (Mathews): Repealing the 100% by 2040 mandate. See Companion Bill HF 4411.
Status: Introduced 3/17/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4504 (Frentz): MN Climate Innovation Finance Authority use of funding. See also Companion Bill HF 4374.
Status: Introduced 3/17/26, referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. Set for hearing 4/8/26. Amended to become Senate Energy Omnibus Bill; laid over 4/8/26. Re-set for hearing 4/13/26. Recommended to pass and re-referred to the Committee on Finance 4/13/26. Set for hearing 4/30/26. Committee votes to pass; referred to Senate floor 5/4/26. Second reading 5/4/26. Passed Senate (35-32) 5/12/26. Bill failed to move in House.
SF 4532 (Mathews): Repealing the AG’s duty to intervene in certain PUC matters. See Companion Bill HF 3674.
Status: Introduced 3/17/26; referred to State and Local Government. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4534 (Mathews): Fuel-switching improvement spending for low-income households can be counted towards the low-income spending requirements on muni and cooperative electric utilities. See Companion Bill HF 3688.
Status: Introduced 3/17/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4548 (Hauschild): Banning local elected officials from entering NDAs. See Companion Bill HF 4814.
Status: Introduced 3/18/26; referred to State and Local Government. Heard and amended 3/24/26; passed and re-referred to Judiciary and Public Safety. Set for hearing 4/15/26. Laid over 4/15/26. See Omnibus State and Local Government bill SF 4555.
SF 4555 (Xiong): The Senate Omnibus State and Local Government bill. It contains NDA language regarding data centers.
Status: Introduced 3/18/26; referred to State and Local Government. Committee reports to pass 4/7/26. Passed Senate as amended (35-32) 4/20/26. Passed Senate (35-32) 4/20/26. Bill failed to move in House. Sections were placed in other bills. NDA language did not pass.
SF 4590 (Frentz): Revising technical language and making statutory corrections of the MPUC. See Companion Bill SF 4560.
Status: Introduced 3/18/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate. Heard by committee 3/25/26; passed to Senate floor. Second reading 3/25/26. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4591 (Frentz): Setting standards for distributed energy resource aggregators for IOUs and munis/coops of over 4 million kWh sales per year. See also Companion Bill HF 4919.
Status: Introduced 3/18/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate. Set for informational hearing 4/29/26. Informational hearing cancelled and not rescheduled for remainder of session.
SF 4681 (Mathews): Regarding data center siting and permit applications; requires a clean energy tariff for data centers (IOUs) and not shifting electric costs to other ratepayers. See Companion Bill HF 4153.
Status: Introduced 3/23/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4774 (Putnam): Establishing plug-in solar provisions.
Status: Introduced 3/25/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4720 (Frentz): Expanding the Dept. of Commerce’s ability to enter into energy research projects and partnerships; provide authority for energy security planning. See also Companion Bill HF 4559.
Status: Introduced 3/23/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. Heard in committee 3/23/26; laid over. See Senate Omnibus Energy Bill SF 4504.
SF 4816 (Kunesh): Environmental impact statement required for data centers.
Status: Introduced 3/25/26; referred to Environment, Climate, and Legacy. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4824 (Lieske): Prohibit the state and municipalities from entering into non-disclosure agreements. See also Companion Bill HF 4659.
Status: Introduced 3/25/26; referred to State & Local Government. See Omnibus State and Local Government bill SF 4555.
SF 4835 (Mathews): Ratepayer cost reduction bill: terminating certain nuclear payments, exempting residential natural gas and electric sales; reforming net metering. See Companion Bill HF 4308.
Status: Introduced 3/25/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4886 (Marty): Creating a Greenhouse Gas Pollution Superfund; allowing suits against oil/gas for climate impacts.
Status: Introduced 3/26/26; referred to Environment, Climate, & Legacy. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4900 (Mathews): Funding an interim study on nuclear power in Minnesota, including impacts and siting. See Companion Bill HF 4703.
Status: Introduced 3/26/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. See Senate Energy Omnibus bill SF 4504.
SF 4901 (Mathews): Allowing nuclear power as an option in IRPs. See Companion Bill HF 4711.
Status: Introduced 3/26/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4913 (Gruenhagen): Terminating the MN Climate Innovation Finance Authority. See also Companion Bill HF 4941.
Status: Introduced 3/26/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 4942 (Farnsworth): Exempting municipal electric utilities from life-cycle analysis requirements. See also Companion Bill HF 4924.
Introduced 4/7/26, referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 5030 (Hoffman): Prohibiting munis and coops from recovering fixed costs unless via certain means; and subjects coops to open meeting/public records laws. See also Companion Bill HF 4874.
Status: Introduced 4/9/26, referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 5053 (Johnson Stewart): Allows direct sales to customers on a per kWh basis from rooftop solar and provides certain registration and consumer protection requirements. See also Companion Bill HF 4880.
Status: Introduced 4/9/26; referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection. No further action recorded this session.
SF 5100 (Mathews): Pertaining to data centers: requiring pre-application for water use, alternative environmental permitting review, requiring back up generation, requires IOU tariffs, exempts sales to data centers from the solar energy mandate, and exempting backup generation for data centers from certificates of need. See also Companion Bill HF 4990.
Status: Introduced 4/13/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. No further action recorded this session.
SF 5106 (Hauschild): Exempting utilities from strict liability provided wildfire safety plans are entered into and followed.
Status: Introduced 4/13/26; referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate. Set for informational hearing 4/29/26. Informational hearing cancelled and not rescheduled for remainder of session.
SF 5243 (Howe): Reimbursement of utilities for moving certain utility infrastructure for transportation projects.
Status: Introduced 4/29/26; referred to Transportation. No further action recorded this session.