Minnesota / State / 2025 First Special Session
Laws of Minnesota 2025, First Special Session, chapter 1, article 4, section 9 Created reduced-fee hunting and fishing licences at 50 percent, effective March 1, 2027
Added Minn. Stat. 97A.465, subd. 9, requiring a licence agent to issue deer, small game and angling licences at the reduced fee specified in 97A.475 to a resident veteran with a 50 to 99 percent service-connected disability. The Revisor’s note on the section records the effective date as March 1, 2027. Until then Minnesota’s free hunting and fishing licences remain available only at 100 percent, and there is nothing at all between the free state park permit, which takes any level of service-connected disability, and the 100 percent licences. Tracked because a veteran at 70 percent reading the current statute will find a subdivision that describes a benefit they cannot yet obtain, which is the failure mode this tracker exists for.
Progress
Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature
- Introduced Done,
- In committee Done, date not recorded
- Passed one chamber Done, Senate, 38-29
- Passed both chambers Done, House, 105-26
- Signed by the governor Done, Chapter 1
- In effect Scheduled for
Sponsors
- Hawj
- Heintzeman
- Fischer
What it touches
- Minn. Stat. § 97A.465, subd. 9
- Minn. Stat. § 97A.475
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