Nothing on this page is advice about your job, and no article can be. If you want your own facts looked at, a Minnesota employment attorney can do that — and several of the deadlines described on this site are short enough that waiting is itself a decision.
In this guide
Why this page exists
Everything else on this site describes Minnesota employment law as it stands today. This page is the audit trail: which act changed which section, when it took effect, and where the change shows up in the guides. Eighteen session laws between 2023 and 2026 touched the statutes the rest of the site is built on, and several of them cut in the direction people do not expect.
Every row below was read in the session law itself, in the Revisor’s strike-and-insert rendering — struck words shown as deleted, added words shown as new — because a chapter’s summary line and its Table 2 entry both tell you that a section changed and neither tells you what changed. Where an act supplies its own effective-date clause, the clause is quoted. Where it does not, the row names the default in Minn. Stat. § 645.02 that fills the gap and says which one.
Where the Revisor’s posted text stands, as of September 8, 2026
The Revisor of Statutes currently publishes the 2025 Minnesota Statutes. The 2025 regular and special sessions are folded in — you can read Laws 2025, ch. 39 and Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6 in the posted text of §§ 14.48, 181.931, 181.932, 177.253, 177.254, 181.9447, 181.9448, and 268B.14. The 2026 session is not. Six 2026 acts amended sections this site cites, and none of them appears in the posted text or in the History line beneath it.
The Revisor flags them elsewhere on the same page — a “Recent History” row naming the act, and a notice reading “This section has been affected by law enacted during the 2026 Regular Session” — and the Revisor’s Table 2, queried per exact section against the 2026 statutes, returns the row in full. None of those gives the changed words; only the act does. Run at the chapter level, the Table 2 query silently returns nothing; run per section, it returns the row. Here is what it returns for the six:
| Section | Table 2 row (2026 statutes) |
|---|---|
| § 363A.07, subd. 4 | Amended, 2026 Regular Session, ch. 88, art. 1, § 195 |
| § 363A.08, subd. 4 | Amended, 2026 Regular Session, ch. 88, art. 1, § 196 |
| § 363A.29, subd. 1 | Amended, 2026 Regular Session, ch. 97, art. 13, § 1 |
| § 181.101 | Amended, 2026 Regular Session, ch. 106, art. 15, § 5 |
| § 609.52, subd. 2 | Amended, 2026 Regular Session, ch. 127, art. 7, § 4 |
| § 609.52, subd. 3a | Amended, 2026 Regular Session, ch. 118, art. 5, § 2 |
| § 13.04, subd. 4a | Amended, 2026 Regular Session, ch. 95, art. 1, § 2 |
The lag is a publishing schedule, not a suspension. The amendments are in force on their own terms.
The changelog
| Act | Effective | What it did | Section | Guide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laws 2023, ch. 3, § 1 | August 1, 2023 — no clause; the act is one section long and contains no occurrence of the word “effective,” and it carries no appropriation item, so § 645.02’s first paragraph supplies the date. The governor signed it January 31, 2023. | Added a definition of “race” the Act had never carried: “‘Race’ is inclusive of traits associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and hair styles such as braids, locs, and twists.” The act’s title recites only “relating to human rights; adding a definition of race to the Minnesota Human Rights Act.” | Minn. Stat. § 363A.03, subd. 36a | — |
| Laws 2023, ch. 52, art. 19, §§ 46–48, 52–55 | July 1, 2023 — no clause on any of these sections. Checked by attachment: between §§ 45 and 56 of article 19 the only “EFFECTIVE DATE” line sits inside § 56 and begins “This section is effective January 1, 2024,” and it belongs to that section alone. Chapter 52 carries appropriation items — its title recites “appropriating money for judiciary, Guardian ad Litem Board, Uniform Laws Commission, Board on Judicial Standards, human rights, sentencing guidelines, public safety” and more, and article 1 is an appropriations article — so § 645.02’s second paragraph supplies the date. The governor signed it May 19, 2023. | Pulled gender identity out of the sexual-orientation definition and made it a protected class of its own. Section 47 struck the whole of the definition of “sexual orientation,” including the clause “having or being perceived as having a self-image or identity not traditionally associated with one’s biological maleness or femaleness” and the sentence “‘Sexual orientation’ does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult,” and replaced it with a definition that begins “to whom someone is, or is perceived of as being, emotionally, physically, or sexually attracted to based on sex or gender identity.” Section 48 added a definition that had never existed, beginning “‘Gender identity’ means a person’s inherent sense of being a man, woman, both, or neither.” Sections 52 through 55 then inserted “gender identity,” into the list of protected characteristics in each of the four subdivisions of § 363A.08 that carries one, and § 46 made the matching insertion in the definition of “local commission.” | Minn. Stat. § 363A.03, subds. 23, 44, 50; § 363A.08, subds. 1–4 | — |
| Laws 2023, ch. 53, art. 6, § 1 | July 1, 2023 — “This section is effective July 1, 2023, and applies to contracts and agreements entered into on or after that date.” | Created the noncompete ban outright: “Any covenant not to compete contained in a contract or agreement is void and unenforceable,” subject to sale-of-business and dissolution exceptions, with a choice-of-law and venue subdivision and a fee-shift to the employee. The definition in subd. 1(a) closes by excluding nondisclosure agreements, trade-secret agreements, nonsolicitation agreements, and client-list restrictions. | Minn. Stat. § 181.988 (new) | Noncompete signed after July 1, 2023 · NDAs and nonsolicits |
| Laws 2023, ch. 53, art. 11, § 36 | July 1, 2023 — “This section is effective July 1, 2023.” | Rewrote the drug-testing retaliation provision from a bare “may not retaliate” into a list of prohibited acts: struck “may” and inserted “shall,” and inserted “discharge, discipline, penalize, interfere with, threaten, restrain, coerce, or otherwise” before “retaliate,” plus “or discriminate” after it. | Minn. Stat. § 181.956, subd. 5 | Drug and alcohol testing · What counts as protected activity |
| Laws 2023, ch. 53, art. 12, §§ 4–7 | January 1, 2024 — art. 12, § 9: “This article is effective January 1, 2024.” | Created earned sick and safe time as four new sections: definitions, accrual (one hour per 30 worked, 48-hour annual cap, 80-hour carryover ceiling), use and the anti-retaliation clause, and the interaction with more generous employer policies. The same article repealed the former school-conference-leave section, § 181.9413. | Minn. Stat. §§ 181.9445–181.9448 (new) | Earned sick and safe time |
| Laws 2023, ch. 53, art. 12, § 1 | January 1, 2024 (same article clause) | Added two ESST items to the pay-stub list — accrued-and-available hours and hours used in the pay period — and renumbered the clauses that followed. Both items were removed again fifteen months later; see the 2024 row. | Minn. Stat. § 181.032(b) | The wage theft notice and your pay stub |
| Laws 2023, ch. 59, art. 1, §§ 9–40 | Staggered by section. § 11 ([268B.03], payment of benefits): “This section is effective January 1, 2026.” § 12 ([268B.04]) and § 14 ([268B.06]): “This section is effective November 1, 2025.” § 18 ([268B.09], employment protections): “This section is effective January 1, 2026, except subdivisions 1 to 4 are effective November 1, 2025.” § 23 ([268B.14], premiums): “This section is effective January 1, 2026.” | Created the entire paid family and medical leave chapter — benefit accounts, the six qualifying reasons, the wage-replacement formula, employment protections, premiums, private-plan substitution, appeals. The Revisor’s own note on § 268B.03 confirms the January 1, 2026 date for the payment-of-benefits section. | Minn. Stat. ch. 268B (new) | Minnesota paid leave |
| Laws 2023, ch. 59, art. 1, § 4 | January 1, 2026 — “This section is effective January 1, 2026.” | Added the paid-leave items to the pay stub — the employee’s premium deduction under § 268B.14, subd. 3, and the employer’s share under subd. 1 — and required an employer using electronic earnings statements to “make statements available for review or printing for a period of three years.” | Minn. Stat. § 181.032 | The wage theft notice and your pay stub |
| Laws 2023, ch. 63, art. 6, §§ 26–42 | July 1, 2023 — no clause on these sections; ch. 63 carries appropriation items, so Minn. Stat. § 645.02’s second paragraph supplies the date. | Pulled cannabis out of the definition of “drug” in the Drug and Alcohol Testing in the Workplace Act and built a parallel cannabis-testing scheme beside it: new definitions, a new subd. 9 in § 181.951 listing the positions for which cannabis remains a testable drug (safety-sensitive, peace officer, firefighter, face-to-face care, CDL, federally funded, and any position for which testing is required by law), and cannabis references threaded through the § 181.953 safeguards. | Minn. Stat. §§ 181.938, 181.950–181.955, 181.957 | Drug and alcohol testing |
| Laws 2024, ch. 105, § 3 | August 1, 2024 — no clause; ch. 105 carries no appropriation item, so § 645.02’s first paragraph supplies the date. | Untethered harassment from sex in the Human Rights Act’s core definition. “Discriminate” had included “segregate or separate and, for purposes of discrimination based on sex, it includes sexual harassment”; the amendment left “segregate, separate, or harassment.” | Minn. Stat. § 363A.03, subd. 13 | Harassment after the 2024 amendments |
| Laws 2024, ch. 105, § 6 | August 1, 2024 (same default) | Narrowed the exclusivity provision by one word and added a sentence. The chapter’s procedure is now “the administrative procedure herein provided,” exclusive only while pending, and the section closes: “The rights and remedies herein provided are in addition to, and shall not preclude, those available at law or in equity.” | Minn. Stat. § 363A.04 | The MDHR charge, step by step · Discrimination claims are lost on the calendar |
| Laws 2024, ch. 110, art. 6, § 3 | January 1, 2025 — “This section is effective January 1, 2025, except that the amendments to paragraph (c) are effective August 1, 2024.” | Collapsed the two-tier minimum wage into one. The definitions of “large employer” and “small employer” were struck from subd. 1, the word “large” was struck from the pay obligation, and the clause structure was renumbered. The indexing paragraph was amended on the earlier date. | Minn. Stat. § 177.24, subd. 1 | Minimum wage and the tip credit |
| Laws 2024, ch. 110, art. 7, § 1 | August 1, 2024 — “This section is effective August 1, 2024.” | Added a new subdivision requiring that a gratuity paid by card or electronic payment be credited to the pay period in which the employee receives it and distributed in full “no later than the next scheduled pay period.” | Minn. Stat. § 177.24, subd. 3a (new) | Tips, service charges, and who owns them |
| Laws 2024, ch. 110, art. 2, § 12 | July 1, 2024 — “This section is effective July 1, 2024, and applies to contracts and agreements entered into on or after that date.” | Created a second, separate restrictive-covenant ban aimed at staffing arrangements: “No service provider may restrict, restrain, or prohibit in any way a customer from directly or indirectly soliciting or hiring an employee of a service provider,” voiding offending provisions in existing contracts and requiring notice to the affected employees. | Minn. Stat. § 181.9881 (new) | Noncompete signed after July 1, 2023 |
| Laws 2024, ch. 121, art. 2, § 29 | May 25, 2024 — “This section is effective the day following final enactment”; the governor signed chapter 121 on May 24, 2024. | Broadened the applicant-testing prohibition by deletion. Paragraph (a) had barred pre-employment cannabis testing “solely for the purpose of determining the presence or absence of cannabis”; that qualifier was struck, leaving a flat prohibition subject only to “unless otherwise required by state or federal law.” The same section corrected an internal cross-reference in paragraph (d). | Minn. Stat. § 181.951, subd. 8 | Drug and alcohol testing |
| Laws 2024, ch. 127, art. 10, § 7 | July 1, 2024 — “This section is effective July 1, 2024.” | Replaced the misclassification section wholesale. The headnote changed from “MISREPRESENTATION OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP PROHIBITED” to “MISCLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES,” and the single old prohibition became three, one of which reaches the document itself: a person shall not “require or request” an employee “to enter into any agreement or complete any document that misclassifies, misrepresents, or treats the individual as an independent contractor.” Each such document “constitutes a separate violation.” Individual liability and successor liability were added. | Minn. Stat. § 181.722 | Misclassified as a contractor |
| Laws 2024, ch. 127, art. 11, § 4 | May 25, 2024 — “This section is effective the day following final enactment”; the governor signed chapter 127 on May 24, 2024. | Took the two ESST items back off the pay stub. Clauses (5) and (6) added in 2023 were struck and the remaining clauses renumbered, which is why the posted list runs to twelve items and none of them is sick time. | Minn. Stat. § 181.032(b) | The wage theft notice and your pay stub |
| Laws 2024, ch. 127, art. 11, § 12 | July 1, 2024 — no clause on this section; ch. 127 carries appropriation items, so Minn. Stat. § 645.02’s second paragraph supplies the date. | Moved the ESST disclosure into the ESST chapter rather than deleting it. The employer must now provide, each pay period, the hours available and the hours used, by “a reasonable system” that may but need not be the earnings statement; records must be kept three years. | Minn. Stat. § 181.9447, subd. 10 | Earned sick and safe time |
| Laws 2025, ch. 20, § 181 | August 1, 2025 — no clause; ch. 20 is the Revisor’s technical-corrections act and carries no appropriation item, so § 645.02’s first paragraph supplies the date. | Corrected a typographical cross-reference in the oral-fluid-testing subdivision: “sections 181.950 to 18.957” became “sections 181.950 to 181.957.” Nothing operative changed. | Minn. Stat. § 181.953, subd. 5a(d) | Drug and alcohol testing |
| Laws 2025, ch. 39, art. 2, §§ 54–56 | July 1, 2025 — no clause; ch. 39 appropriates money, so § 645.02’s second paragraph supplies the date. | Added three definitions to the Whistleblower Act that had never been there: “fraud” (“an intentional or deceptive act, or failure to act, to gain an unlawful benefit”), “misuse,” and “personal gain.” | Minn. Stat. § 181.931, subds. 3a, 4a, 5a (new) | The Whistleblower Act protects the report |
| Laws 2025, ch. 39, art. 2, § 57 | July 1, 2025 (same default) | Rebuilt clause (6) of the prohibited-action subdivision. “[A]n employee in the classified service of state government” became “a state employee”; the subject matter widened from state “services, including the financing of state services” to state “programs, services, or financing, including but not limited to fraud or misuse within state programs, services, or financing”; and the list of permissible recipients grew from two to five, adding an employer, any governmental body, and a law enforcement official. | Minn. Stat. § 181.932, subd. 1(6) | The Whistleblower Act protects the report · What counts as protected activity |
| Laws 2025, ch. 39, art. 2, §§ 17–18 | July 1, 2025 (same default) | Renamed the administrative-hearings body. Subdivision 1 now reads “A state Court of Administrative Hearings is created,” and the matching nouns in subd. 2 were changed from “office” to “court.” Section 68 of the same article directs the revisor to make the substitution “wherever the term appears in Minnesota Statutes,” and the Revisor’s note on § 14.48 records that the change “will be implemented in the 2026 Statutes.” | Minn. Stat. § 14.48, subds. 1–2 | Courts, agencies, and who decides what |
| Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6, art. 5, §§ 1–5 | January 1, 2026 — each of the five sections carries its own clause: “This section is effective January 1, 2026.” | Put numbers on the break statutes and added a remedy to each. The rest break became “a rest break of at least 15 minutes or enough time to utilize the nearest convenient restroom, whichever is longer”; the meal break trigger dropped from eight consecutive hours to six and the break became “a meal break of at least 30 minutes.” Both sections gained a new remedies subdivision: unpaid break time at the regular rate “plus an additional equal amount as liquidated damages.” | Minn. Stat. §§ 177.253, 177.254 | Breaks and overtime after January 1, 2026 |
| Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6, art. 5, §§ 10–12 | July 1, 2025 — no clause on these three sections; ch. 6 appropriates money, so § 645.02’s second paragraph supplies the date. | Three ESST changes, two of them in the employer’s favor. Section 10 replaced the unforeseeable-notice standard “soon as practicable” with “reasonably required by the employer.” Section 11 lowered the documentation trigger from more than three consecutive scheduled work days to more than two. Section 12 added a sentence permitting voluntary shift trades. | Minn. Stat. § 181.9447, subds. 2–4 | Earned sick and safe time |
| Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6, art. 5, § 13 | January 1, 2026 — “This section is effective January 1, 2026.” | Added the advance-accrual rules: an employer may advance ESST based on anticipated hours, and “[i]f the advanced amount is less than the amount the employee would have accrued based on the actual hours worked, the employer must provide additional earned sick and safe time to make up the difference.” | Minn. Stat. § 181.9448, subd. 1(j) | Earned sick and safe time |
| Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6, art. 4, § 27 | July 1, 2025 — no clause; same appropriations default. | Lowered the statutory ceiling on the paid-leave premium: “In no year shall the annual premium rate exceed” 1.2 percent of taxable wages became 1.1 percent. | Minn. Stat. § 268B.14, subd. 7 | Minnesota paid leave |
| Laws 2026, ch. 88, art. 1, § 195 | August 1, 2026 — no clause anywhere in ch. 88; the act is the Revisor’s technical-corrections bill and carries no appropriation item, so § 645.02’s first paragraph supplies the date. The governor signed it May 12, 2026. | Technical. Corrected a dead cross-reference in the local-commission withdrawal provision: a charging party may bring a civil action “as provided in section 363A.34” became “as provided in section 363A.33.” | Minn. Stat. § 363A.07, subd. 4 | The MDHR charge, step by step |
| Laws 2026, ch. 88, art. 1, § 196 | August 1, 2026 (same default) | Technical, and confined to one paragraph. In the closing sentence of subd. 4, paragraph (b), “an aggrieved party under sections 363A.06, subdivision 4, and 363A.28, subdivisions 1 to 9” became “an aggrieved party under section 363A.28, subdivisions 1 to 9.” Paragraph (a) — the pre-employment inquiry prohibitions, which this site’s guide to religion, national origin, and immigration status quotes at length — is untouched by this act. | Minn. Stat. § 363A.08, subd. 4 | — |
| Laws 2026, ch. 97, art. 13, § 1 | August 1, 2026 — no clause; ch. 97 is a public-safety policy act with no appropriation item, so § 645.02’s first paragraph supplies the date. The governor signed it May 18, 2026. | Four changes to the Human Rights Act hearing provision. It struck the venue sentence requiring the hearing to be held “within the county where the unfair discriminatory practice occurred or where the respondent resides or has a principal place of business.” It inserted a deadline: the commissioner “shall decide within 30 days whether to forward the request for hearing.” It carried the 2025 rename into this section, striking “Office” and inserting “Court” before “of Administrative Hearings.” And it struck the words “except that” and inserted a period, which ends the sentence after “contested case” and stops the administrative law judge’s binding report from being framed as an exception. | Minn. Stat. § 363A.29, subd. 1 | The MDHR charge, step by step · Courts, agencies, and who decides what |
| Laws 2026, ch. 106, art. 15, § 5 | May 20, 2026 — art. 15’s clause reads “Sections 1 to 26 are effective the day following final enactment”; the governor signed ch. 106 on May 19, 2026. | Terminology only, and only in paragraph (b). “[V]olunteer or paid on-call firefighter” became “paid on-call firefighter,” the definitional cross-reference moved from § 424A.001, subd. 10, to subd. 10a, and “volunteer firefighter” became “paid on-call firefighter.” Paragraph (a) — the every-31-days payday rule and the ten-day demand penalty — was not touched. | Minn. Stat. § 181.101(b) | Deductions from your pay · The wage theft notice and your pay stub |
| Laws 2026, ch. 127, art. 7, § 4 | August 1, 2026 — “This section is effective August 1, 2026, and applies to crimes committed on or after that date.” | Struck the medical-assistance false-claims item at subd. 2(a)(3)(iii) and renumbered the two items below it. Clause (19), the wage-theft clause, and the definition it points to in subd. 1(13) came through untouched. | Minn. Stat. § 609.52, subd. 2 | The wage theft notice and your pay stub |
| Laws 2026, ch. 118, art. 5, § 2 | August 1, 2026 — “This section is effective August 1, 2026, and applies to crimes committed on or after that date.” | Split the enhanced-penalty subdivision into two paragraphs and added a vulnerable-adult enhancement. The existing risk-of-bodily-harm enhancement became paragraph (a) unchanged. | Minn. Stat. § 609.52, subd. 3a | The wage theft notice and your pay stub |
| Laws 2026, ch. 95, art. 1, § 2 | August 1, 2026 — no clause on this section; ch. 95’s long title carries no “appropriating money” clause and the act makes no appropriation of its own (its dollar figures amend prior acts’ appropriation riders), so § 645.02’s first paragraph supplies the date. The governor signed it May 14, 2026. | Added “or a delegee” twice to the subdivision governing accuracy challenges to Direct Care and Treatment sex-offender-program data. No guide on this site relies on subd. 4a; the personnel-file guide cites § 13.04, subd. 3, the public-employee access provision, which this act did not touch. | Minn. Stat. § 13.04, subd. 4a | — |
The two rows that reverse the direction people assume
Earned sick and safe time got harder for the employee in 2025, not easier. The 2023 act was a large expansion, and the coverage of it stopped there. Two years later the Legislature moved two provisions the other way, and neither change was cosmetic. Section 181.9447, subd. 2, used to let an employer demand notice of an unforeseeable absence no sooner than “soon as practicable” — a standard measured from the employee’s circumstances. Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6, art. 5, § 10, struck those words and inserted “reasonably required by the employer,” which measures the same thing from the employer’s written policy. Section 11 of the same article cut the documentation threshold in subd. 3(a) from more than three consecutive scheduled work days to more than two, so an employer may now demand documentation a day earlier than it could in 2024. Both changes are in the posted statute today. The full treatment is in the earned sick and safe time guide.
The pay-stub ESST line was added and then removed inside fifteen months. Laws 2023, ch. 53, art. 12, § 1, put accrued-and-available and used-this-period ESST hours on the earnings statement as clauses (5) and (6) of Minn. Stat. § 181.032(b), effective January 1, 2024. Laws 2024, ch. 127, art. 11, § 4, struck both and renumbered — effective the day after enactment, May 25, 2024 — and § 12 of the same article relocated the disclosure to Minn. Stat. § 181.9447, subd. 10, where the employer may satisfy it through “a reasonable system” that need not be the pay stub at all. An employee reading a 2024-vintage explainer will look for a line item that the statute stopped requiring on the earnings statement in the middle of that year.
What Minn. Stat. § 645.02 does with the acts that say nothing
Fourteen of the changes above carry no effective-date clause. That is common, and the gap is filled by a general statute rather than left open:
Each act, except one making appropriations, enacted finally at any session of the legislature takes effect on August 1 next following its final enactment, unless a different date is specified in the act.
…
An appropriation act or an act having appropriation items enacted finally at any session of the legislature takes effect at the beginning of the first day of July next following its final enactment, unless a different date is specified in the act.
Each act takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day it becomes effective, unless a different time is specified in the act.
Which of the two defaults applies is a question about the chapter, not about the section. Laws 2023, ch. 63; Laws 2024, ch. 127; Laws 2025, ch. 39; and Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6 each contain appropriation items, so their silent sections took effect on a July 1. Laws 2024, ch. 105; Laws 2025, ch. 20; Laws 2026, ch. 88; Laws 2026, ch. 95; and Laws 2026, ch. 97 do not, so their silent sections took effect on an August 1. That is a 31-day difference, and it is the whole reason the ESST notice and documentation amendments took effect on July 1, 2025 rather than in 2026 alongside the break changes in the same article.
The claim: "The law hasn't changed since I started my job."
For Minnesota employment law between 2023 and 2026, that is almost never true, and the table above is the reason. A person hired in early 2023 has since worked under a statutory noncompete ban that did not exist when they signed their paperwork (Minn. Stat. § 181.988, created by Laws 2023, ch. 53, art. 6, § 1, effective July 1, 2023), a sick-leave entitlement that did not exist (Minn. Stat. §§ 181.9445–181.9448, created by Laws 2023, ch. 53, art. 12, effective January 1, 2024), a cannabis-testing scheme that did not exist (Laws 2023, ch. 63, art. 6), a single minimum wage in place of the old large- and small-employer tiers (Laws 2024, ch. 110, art. 6, § 3, effective January 1, 2025), a harassment definition no longer limited to sex (Laws 2024, ch. 105, § 3), a misclassification statute rewritten from one prohibition into three (Laws 2024, ch. 127, art. 10, § 7), a paid family and medical leave program paying benefits since January 1, 2026 (Minn. Stat. § 268B.03, added by Laws 2023, ch. 59, art. 1, § 11), and break statutes that acquired minutes and liquidated damages on January 1, 2026 (Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6, art. 5, §§ 1–5). Nine of those changes are newer than any handbook printed in 2023.
The claim: "If it is not on the Revisor's page yet, it is not law yet."
That is wrong, and it inverts what the publication date means. The Revisor of Statutes publishes the 2025 Minnesota Statutes as of September 8, 2026, and the posted text and History line of Minn. Stat. §§ 363A.07, 363A.08, 363A.29, 181.101, 609.52, and 13.04 show no 2026 action. Six 2026 acts amended those sections anyway. Minn. Stat. § 645.02 fixes an act's effective date by reference to final enactment, not to publication in the statutes; Laws 2026, ch. 106, art. 15, took effect "the day following final enactment," which was May 20, 2026, and the Revisor's posted text of § 181.101 still does not show it. The Revisor's Table 2, queried per exact section against the 2026 statutes, returns the pending amendment, and the section's own page carries a "has been affected by law enacted during the 2026 Regular Session" notice above the stale text — but the act itself is the only place the changed words can be read.
How to check a row yourself
Each act above is linked in the sources list. Three habits make the check reliable, and each of them exists because the obvious approach fails quietly.
Read the strike-and-insert text, not the summary. The Revisor renders an amendment with the struck words marked deleted and the added words marked new. A chapter’s opening “amending Minnesota Statutes …, sections” list tells you a section was touched and nothing more; several rows above are single-word substitutions that change a cross-reference, a name, or a threshold, and one of them — “Office” to “Court” — is invisible in any summary.
Query Table 2 per exact section. The Revisor’s table of statutes affected by session laws answers ?full=363A.29. It does not answer a chapter-level query in a way you can rely on, and the failure mode is an empty result rather than an error. Run it once per section you care about, against the year you care about.
Read the History line, then look past it. The History line under a posted section lists the acts already folded into the text. It is authoritative about the past and silent about the pending. And the “Recent History” table beside it drops the special-session prefix — Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6, appears there as “2025 c 6,” which is a different act. Cite session laws from the History line or from the act, never from that table.
What this page does not do
This page dates changes. It does not tell you which version of a statute governs a particular dispute, and that question is frequently the entire dispute: a noncompete signed in June 2023 sits outside § 181.988 by three weeks, and a discharge in July 2024 is measured against a harassment definition that had six more days to run. Applying an effective date to a set of facts is not what this page does. Where a row matters to a specific rule, the guide named in that row carries the treatment, and the deadline that governs when any of it can be raised is in the deadline table.
Common questions
- When did Minnesota ban noncompete agreements?
- July 1, 2023, and only for agreements entered into on or after that date. Laws 2023, ch. 53, art. 6, § 1, created Minn. Stat. § 181.988, and the section's own effective-date clause reads: 'This section is effective July 1, 2023, and applies to contracts and agreements entered into on or after that date.' Subdivision 2(a) provides that '[a]ny covenant not to compete contained in a contract or agreement is void and unenforceable,' with two exceptions in paragraph (b) for the sale and the dissolution of a business. A noncompete signed before July 1, 2023, is outside the statute; the act did not reach back.
- Did Minnesota's earned sick and safe time rules change after 2024?
- Twice, and both later changes moved toward the employer. Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6, art. 5, § 10, struck 'soon as practicable' from the unforeseeable-notice sentence in Minn. Stat. § 181.9447, subd. 2, and inserted 'reasonably required by the employer.' Section 11 of the same article lowered the documentation trigger in subd. 3(a) from more than 'three' consecutive scheduled work days to more than 'two.' Neither section carries its own effective-date clause; chapter 6 is an appropriations act, so the default in Minn. Stat. § 645.02 is 'the beginning of the first day of July next following its final enactment' — July 1, 2025. Section 13 of the same article, amending § 181.9448, does carry a clause, and it reads: 'This section is effective January 1, 2026.'
- Does the Minnesota Revisor's website show the 2026 changes to the Human Rights Act?
- Not in the posted statutory text. The Revisor currently publishes the 2025 Minnesota Statutes, so the History line on Minn. Stat. § 363A.29 ends at '2024 c 105 s 14,15' and the text of subdivision 1 is the pre-2026 text. The 2026 action shows up in three other places on the Revisor's site: a 'Recent History' row on the section page, a notice that the section 'has been affected by law enacted during the 2026 Regular Session,' and the Table 2 query for that exact section, run against the 2026 statutes, which returns one 2026 row — § 363A.29, subd. 1, Amended, 2026 Regular Session, ch. 97, art. 13, § 1. Reading the act itself is the only way to see what the amendment did. The same lag applies to §§ 363A.07, 363A.08, 181.101, 609.52, and 13.04.
- What is the default effective date of a Minnesota law that does not say when it takes effect?
- It depends on whether the act appropriates money. Minn. Stat. § 645.02 provides that '[e]ach act, except one making appropriations, enacted finally at any session of the legislature takes effect on August 1 next following its final enactment, unless a different date is specified in the act,' and that '[a]n appropriation act or an act having appropriation items enacted finally at any session of the legislature takes effect at the beginning of the first day of July next following its final enactment, unless a different date is specified in the act.' A third sentence sets the hour: '[e]ach act takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day it becomes effective, unless a different time is specified in the act.' Several of the changes in the table below have no clause of their own, and which of those two defaults applies turns entirely on whether the chapter carried appropriation items.
- Was the Office of Administrative Hearings renamed?
- Yes, in 2025. Laws 2025, ch. 39, art. 2, § 17, amended Minn. Stat. § 14.48, subd. 1, by striking 'Office' and inserting 'Court,' so the subdivision now reads: 'A state Court of Administrative Hearings is created.' Section 18 made the matching changes in subd. 2, and § 68 of the same article directs the revisor of statutes to make the substitution 'wherever the term appears in Minnesota Statutes.' The Revisor's note beneath § 14.48 records that the change 'will be implemented in the 2026 Statutes.' The section headnote on the Revisor's page still reads 'OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS,' and Minn. Stat. § 645.49 provides that headnotes 'are mere catchwords to indicate the contents of the section or subdivision and are not part of the statute.' Laws 2026, ch. 97, art. 13, § 1, then made the same substitution inside Minn. Stat. § 363A.29, subd. 1.
Sources checked September 11, 2026. Citations independently verified against the primary source September 11, 2026. Updated September 11, 2026.
- Laws 2023, ch. 53 (jobs and economic development omnibus) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2023, ch. 59 (paid family and medical leave; Minn. Stat. ch. 268B) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2023, ch. 63 (cannabis) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2024, ch. 105 (Human Rights Act) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2024, ch. 110 (labor policy) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2024, ch. 121 (cannabis policy) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2024, ch. 127 (omnibus supplemental) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2025, ch. 20 (revisor's technical corrections) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2025, ch. 39 (state government operations budget) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., ch. 6 (jobs, labor, and economic development budget) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2026, ch. 88 (revisor's technical corrections) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2026, ch. 95 (Direct Care and Treatment; health and human services) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2026, ch. 97 (public safety policy) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2026, ch. 106 (retirement) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2026, ch. 118 (public safety; Capitol security) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2026, ch. 127 (health and insurance) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 645.02 (effective date and time of laws) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 645.49 (headnotes) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.988 (covenants not to compete) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.032 (required statement of earnings) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.9447 (use of earned sick and safe time) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.9448 (effect on other law or policy) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.956 (drug and alcohol testing; retaliation prohibited) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.951 (limitations on drug, alcohol, and cannabis testing) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.953 (reliability and fairness safeguards) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 363A.03 (Human Rights Act definitions) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 363A.04 (construction and exclusivity) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 363A.07 (local commissions) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 363A.08 (unfair discriminatory practices; employment) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 363A.29 (conduct of hearings) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 177.24 (payment of minimum wages) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 177.253 (rest breaks) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 177.254 (meal breaks) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.722 (misclassification of employees) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.9881 (restrictive employment covenants; service contracts) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.931 (whistleblower definitions) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.932 (whistleblower; prohibited action) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 181.101 (wages; how often paid) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 609.52 (theft) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 13.04 (rights of subjects of data) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 14.48 (Office of Administrative Hearings) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 268B.03 (payment of benefits) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Minn. Stat. § 268B.14 (premiums) — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2023, ch. 52 (S.F. No. 2909), art. 19 — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Laws 2023, ch. 3 (H.F. No. 37) — definition of race — Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes