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Read. Follow. Verify.Minnesota House Bill 3 Requires Annual Auditor Reports on Audit Recommendation Implementation and Appropriates Funds
Last action · March 10, 2025: Motion prevailedSponsors: Jim Nash and 31 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Minnesota House Bill 3 requires the to submit annual reports detailing whether audited state entities have implemented auditor recommendations from the prior five years. It also requires the commissioner of management and budget to report annually on the implementation status of those recommendations and appropriates $238,000 in 2026 and $259,000 in fiscal year 2027 to the legislative auditor, plus $41,000 annually for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to management and budget.
State agencies face new annual reporting requirements regarding whether they follow financial and program audit recommendations, backed by state funding increases totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars for oversight offices.
- The Office of the Legislative Auditor in Minnesota operates as an independent audit agency that conducts financial audits and program evaluations of state departments and programs. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Office of the Legislative Auditor
Must compile and submit new annual reports to legislative committees and receives specific funding appropriations.
Commissioner of Management and Budget
Must submit an annual implementation status report to the legislative auditor and receives specific funding appropriations.
State agencies subject to audit
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · passed the House.
Procedural history
16 actions- Mar 10, 2025HouseMotion prevailed
- Mar 10, 2025HouseMotion to lay on the table
- Mar 10, 2025HouseMotion prevailed pg. 644 vote: 67-66
- Mar 10, 2025HouseMotion for reconsideration passage
- Mar 10, 2025HouseFloorBill was not passed pg. 643 vote: 66-67
- Mar 10, 2025HouseFloorThird reading
Show 10 earlier actions
- Mar 6, 2025HouseHouse rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, March 10, 2025
- Feb 26, 2025HouseFloorSecond reading
- Feb 26, 2025HouseCommittee report, to adopt as amended
- Feb 24, 2025HouseAuthors added Gillman and Sexton
- Feb 20, 2025HouseAuthor added Altendorf
- Feb 17, 2025HouseAuthor added Gander
- Feb 13, 2025HouseAuthors added Rymer, McDonald, Baker, Koznick and Murphy
- Feb 13, 2025HouseCommitteeCommittee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means
- Feb 10, 2025HouseAuthors added Schultz; Duran; Perryman; Engen; Zeleznikar; Van Binsbergen; Knudsen; Burkel; Bennett; Dotseth; Anderson, P. H.; Hudson; Jacob; Davis; Robbins; Swedzinski; Johnson, W.; Harder; Allen; Gordon; and Scott
- Feb 6, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduction and first reading, referred to State Government Finance and Policy
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Sponsors
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Dedicated Oversight Funding
The measure pairs new administrative reporting mandates with direct general fund appropriations to both the legislative auditor and management and budget.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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