Minnesota Legislature
2025-2026 Session Pension and Retirement Bills
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2025 Session Pension and Retirement Bills
Listed in descending Senate file order with recent intros appearing first, then House bills with no Senate companion, and Draft bills not introduced but with an LCPR hearing.
Last updated: Apr. 9, 2025
| Senate File | House File | Plan | Description | and Action |
Summary/ Fiscal Note |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF3355-Pappas | -- | PERA | Expanding the privatization chapter to cover all governmental subdivisions that privatize, not just medical facilities; modifying the withdrawal liability calculation. | 4/1/2025 - Passed (Heard as LCPR25-031) |
Summary | |
| SF3239-Abeler | HF2318-Nadeau | TRA | Providing an unreduced retirement annuity upon reaching age 62 with 30 years of service, increasing employer contribution rates, and appropriating money. | 4/8/2025 ‑ Amended, Laid over |
Summary | |
| SF3192-Frentz | HF2821-O'Driscoll | PERA General | Modifying the circumstances under which the additional employer contribution is repealed; increasing postretirement adjustments. | 4/1/2025 - Passed | Summary | |
| SF2992-Pratt | HF2329-Nadeau | TRA | Lowering the age from 62 to 60 for the enhanced early retirement reduction. | 4/8/2025 ‑ Amended, Laid over |
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| SF2985-Pappas | HF2942-Nadeau | MN Secure Choice Retirement Program |
Administrative bill. | 3/25/2025 ‑ Passed as amended (as #25‑04680) | Summary | |
| SF2984-Pappas | HF2943-Naadeau | MN Secure Choice Retirement Program |
Adding penalties for noncompliance. | 3/25/2025 ‑ Passed as amended (as #25‑04681) | Summary | |
| SF2980-Seeberger | HF2386-O'Driscoll | PERA | PERA 2025 administrative bill. | 3/25/2025 ‑ Passed as amended | Summary | |
| SF2884-Frentz | HF1889-O'Driscoll | MSRS; all plans | Minnesota State Retirement System (MSRS) administrative bill. | 3/18/2025 - Passed | Summary | |
| SF2752-Maye Quade | HF2395-Huot | Lump-sum VFRAs | Increasing the maximum lump-sum pension amount for each year of service. | 3/18/2025 - Passed | Revised summary | |
| SF2640-Maye Quade | HF2367-Nadeau | -- | Implementing the labor agreement between the State and SEIU Healthcare MN & IA for individual providers of direct support services; establishing the Minnesota Caregiver Retirement Fund Trust. | 4/8/2025, Sec. 1 & 14; ‑ Amended, Laid over |
Staff memo | |
| SF2523-Cwodzinski | HF2341-Clardy | TRA | Providing an unreduced retirement annuity upon reaching age 60 with 30 years of service, modifying the early retirement reduction factors, increasing postretirement adjustments, increasing employer contribution rates, and appropriating money. *See SF2000/HF1582 for identical bill |
See SF2000/HF1582 | See SF2000/HF1582 | |
| SF2379-Rasmusson | HF2022-Berg | Higher ed supplemental plan | Increasing the higher education supplemental retirement plan employer match maximum from $2,700 to $4,300. | 3/25/2025 ‑ Passed | Summary | |
| SF2000-Gustafson | HF1582-Wolgamott | TRA | Providing an unreduced retirement annuity upon reaching age 60 with 30 years of service, modifying the early retirement reduction factors, increasing postretirement adjustments, increasing employer contribution rates, and appropriating money. | 4/8/2025 ‑ Amended, Laid over |
Summary | |
| SF1986-Kupec | HF1779-Wolgamott | MSRS General, PERA General | Unreduced early retirement annuity for probation agency employees at age 60 or with 35 years of service, employee contribution increase. | 3/25/2025 ‑ Amended, laid over |
Summary | |
| SF1937-McEwen | -- | MSRS, PERA, TRA, St. Paul Teachers | Restores deferred annuities augmentation for members who left public employment before January 1, 2019. | -- | -- | |
| SF1556-Bahr | HF708-Scott | PERA | Adding a correctional plan member to the Public Employees Retirement Association board of trustees. | 3/25/2025 ‑ Laid over | Summary | |
| SF1341-Pappas | HF1828-Cha | VFRAs | Implementing the recommendations of the State Auditor's fire relief association working group. | 3/18/2025 - Passed | Summary | |
| SF1213-Miller | HF2117-Repinski | Minnesota State IRAP | Requiring Minnesota State to locate an eligible person's missing IRAP account or pay the eligible person $25,000. | -- | -- | |
| SF1122-Frentz | HF139-O'Driscoll | PERA P&F, State Patrol | Increasing postretirement adjustments; decreasing the waiting period for a postretirement adjustment for the police and fire plan. | 4/1/2025 - Laid over | Summary | |
| SF356-Lieske | -- | PERA P&F | Increasing the reemployment earnings limit applicable to disability benefit payments. | -- | -- | |
House bills with no Senate companion: | ||||||
| -- | HF3052-Gandler | TRA | Providing an unreduced retirement annuity upon reaching age 60 with 30 years of service, modifying the early retirement reduction factors, increasing postretirement adjustments, increasing employer contribution rates, and appropriating money. *See SF2000/HF1582 for identical bill |
See SF2000/HF1582 | See SF2000/HF1582 | |
| -- | HF2237-O'Driscoll | MSRS | Increasing the formula multiplier for the general plan; and increasing the postretirement adjustment for the general, legislators, and unclassified plans. | 3/25/2025 - Passed 3/18/2025 - Laid over |
Summary | |
| -- | HF1339-Repinski | PERA P&F | Permitting the payment of a normal retirement annuity without reduction or suspension upon employment or reemployment on or after age 55. | -- | -- | |
Draft bills not introduced but with an LCPR hearing: | ||||||
| 2025 bills will appear here if heard by the Commission | ||||||
| Document #LCPR25-009 | All plans | Amortization Work Group bill. | 4/1/2025 - Passed as amended | Report | ||
| Document #LCPR25-030 | Firefighter Relief Associations | Repealing the Investment Business Recipient Disclosure annual reporting requirement. | 4/1/2025 - Laid over | Summary | ||
Other bills that may be of interest to public employees, retirees, and other interested parties
| Senate File | House File | Plan/Subject | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF2012-Rasmusson | HF2268-Joy | Income taxes | Providing for a subtraction of income from certain retirement plans (IRC Sec. 401 or 408 plans). |
| SF2011-Rasmusson | HF2081-Joy | Income taxes | Establishing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |
| SF1239-Limmer | -- | Income taxes | Establishing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |
| SF1231-Draheim | -- | Income taxes | Establishing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |
| SF1159-Howe | HF1015-Perryman | Income taxes | Establishing a full subtraction of taxable Social Security benefits for veterans and surviving spouses. |
| SF952-Nelson | -- | Income taxes | Phasing out the amount of Social Security income subject to tax. |
| SF940-Nelson | -- | Income taxes | Establishing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |
| SF851-Lucero | HF2806-Hudson | SBI | Prohibiting the State Board of Investment from investing in and requiring divestment from companies that boycott mining, energy production, production agriculture, or commercial lumber production. The Stop Environmental Social Governance (ESG) and Social Credit Score Discrimination Act. |
| SF431-Draheim | -- | Income taxes | Establishing an income tax subtraction for volunteer fire and rescue workers. |
| SF235-Miller | HF100-Repinski | Income taxes | Allowing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |
| SF186-Gustafson | -- | Income taxes | Establishing a refundable credit for certain teachers. |
| SF104-Drazkowski | -- | Income taxes | Allowing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |
| SF22-Gruenhagen | -- | Income taxes | Allowing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |
| SF4-Rarick | HF347-Nelson | Income taxes | Expanding the subtraction for military retirement pay. |
| -- | HF1000-McDonald | Income taxes | Establishing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |
| -- | HF828-Dotseth | Income taxes | Establishing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |
| -- | HF760-Robbins | Income taxes | Allowing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |
| -- | HF741-Olson | Income taxes | Establishing an income tax subtraction for volunteer fire and rescue workers. |
| -- | HF316-Nadeau | Income taxes | Permitting a limited subtraction for income received from a retirement savings plan. |
| -- | HF236-Schultz | Income taxes | Providing for a full subtraction of taxable Social Security benefits for veterans and surviving spouses. |
| -- | HF167-Robbins | Income taxes | Allowing an unlimited Social Security subtraction. |