Data Privacy legislation in Minnesota

Every bill in the Minnesota Legislature that falls inside the Data Privacy Legislation Tracker's scope, with where each one currently stands.

23

Bills in Scope

5

Past Committee

7 May 2026

Most Recent Action

Data Privacy bills in Minnesota

5Past committee

18Introduced or inactive

23 bills in scope

Introduced or inactive

18

SF 5221Geolocation data provisions establishmentIn committeeHF 4005Biometric data; consent for collection required, sale prohibited, deletion required, and civil penalties imposed.In committeeSF 4691Direct Care and Treatment data requirements modificationsIn committeeHF 4475Mandatory privacy notices required to be titled as surveillance notices.In committeeSF 2940Minnesota Data Privacy Act modification to make consumer health data a form of sensitive data provision and sensitive data additional protections addition provisionIn committeeSF 4Omnibus Commerce and Consumer Protections policy and appropriationsIntroducedHF 3325Data request and retention provisions modified, and fee waiver for certain data requests provided.In committeeHF 3101Intellectual Freedom Protection Act regulated public postsecondary institutions created, private right of action created, and attorney general enforcement provided.In committeeHF 3110Disclosures of private student personal contact information to legislators and photographers allowed for specified purposes.In committeeHF 2959Data protection requirements in certain property tax proceedings modified.In committeeHF 2714Pharmacy benefit manager, technology platform, and data protection provisions modified relating to vendor contracts.In committeeHF 2313Geolocation and smartphone monitoring of another person prohibited, and cause of action when violation has occurred provided.In committeeHF 2161Human services inspector general, home and community-based licensing, behavioral health licensing, backgrounds studies provisions, corrections reconsiderations, anti-kickback laws, and judges personal data protection provisions modified.In committeeSF 2260Biometric privacy standards and right of action establishmentIn committeeSF 802Student physical privacy provisionIn committeeSF 2039Judicial official real property records private data classification provision, judicial official real property records access limitations provision, criminal penalties provisionIn committeeHF 1442Elected officials and business entities permitted to access student or parent data.In committeeSF 1602Certain election officials and business entities permission to access student or parent data authorization provisionIn committee

Bill titles link to the Minnesota Legislature's own page.

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What's In Scope

How Data Privacy Legislation bills are selected

In scope is any bill creating or amending duties over personal information: consumer rights of access, deletion, correction and opt-out; sale and sharing definitions; sensitive and biometric identifiers; breach notification timing and content; data broker registration; and the exemptions and thresholds that decide who is covered at all.

Scope is defined by a written topic profile that every bill is measured against. The profiles are drafted by a model and validated by retrieval measurement against a judged set of bills, not reviewed by an attorney. LawSignals is a research tool and does not provide legal advice.

Minnesota is one of Data Privacy Legislation's jurisdictions

The tracker follows this subject everywhere it is legislated, and publishes a monthly issue on what moved across all of them.