US state regulation
Minnesota
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Minnesota - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 62/100 Top quartile
- Regulations tracked
- 5 Top quartile
- Enacted into law
- 5
- Categories regulated
- 3/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 5 enacted · 3/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
Minnesota is a dense, high-tracker archive: 5 tracked rows and 62/100, with 5 enacted across 3 of 5 policy areas, led by Employment & Worker Protection.
- 62/100
- tracker (ceiling tercile)
- 5
- tracked rows (dense tercile)
- 5
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Minnesota legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Minnesota's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 5 Tracked rows in archive
- 5 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 62/100 Portal tracker score
- #9 Of 51 by volume
- #6 Of 51 by tracker score
- Texas Nearest volume peer 5 rows
- 3 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Minnesota's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: Minnesota is above the peer average for tracked volume and above the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Minnesota enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 3 in 2023
Policy coverage
Minnesota enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from Minnesota's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Minnesota regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Minnesota's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Minnesota's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
89/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- B 5 tracked
84th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- A 62/100
94th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- A 3 categories
90th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
💼 Employment & Worker Protection
Minnesota Earned Sick and Safe Time + PFML
HF 2 / SF 2750 Effective: 2024-01-01Minnesota ESST: 48 hrs/year paid sick for all employees. PFML program starting 2026: 12 weeks family, 12 weeks medical.
Minnesota Minimum Wage Act
Minn. Stat. 177.24 Effective: 2025-01-01Minnesota minimum wage $11.13/hr small employers, $10.85/hr macro large (2025). Annually indexed. No separate tipped wage.
Minnesota Non-Compete Ban
SF 3035 Effective: 2023-07-01Complete ban for employees and independent contractors.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with Minnesota
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Minnesota (FULL · MID · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
FULL MID QUIET WORKER-LED
Texas · FULL
Texas tracks 5 rows (more by 0 than Minnesota); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Connecticut · FULL
Connecticut tracks 6 rows (more by 1 than Minnesota); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Delaware · FULL
Delaware tracks 4 rows (fewer by 1 than Minnesota); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Virginia · FULL
Virginia tracks 4 rows (fewer by 1 than Minnesota); tracker stamp MID vs MID.
Tennessee (LOWER score pole)
Tennessee sits near Minnesota on archive volume yet stamps LOWER while this page stamps MID.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
Minnesota's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (3 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Minnesota
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Minnesota state-rule registry · 2024 Minnesota: 5 tracked · 5 enacted · tracker 62/100 (FULL/MID). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Minnesota's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.