2026-09-12 · Minnesota · Legislation · Did not pass

What happened. A bill that would have capped lot-rent increases in Minnesota manufactured home parks is dead. S.F. 2691 passed the Senate 35–31 on 21 April 2026 — the only Minnesota manufactured-home or association bill to clear a chamber in the biennium — and then stopped.¹

It is not law, and the qualifier matters: residents who read about a Senate floor vote in April may believe rent limits took effect. They did not.

The path it took

Introduced 17 March 2025 by Sen. Boldon (with Sens. Putnam, Port, Kunesh and Seeberger). Referred through Senate Housing, then Commerce, then Judiciary. Amended on Special Order and passed the Senate 35–31 on 21 April 2026.

Received in the House on 22 April 2026, given a first reading, referred to House Housing Finance and Policy — and never heard again. The 94th Legislature adjourned sine die on 18 May 2026, extinguishing it.

The House companion, H.F. 2381 (Rep. Norris, with 18 co-authors), also died.

The numbers in the third engrossment

The version that passed the Senate would have amended Minn. Stat. ch. 327C to provide:

• One rent increase per 12-month period, down from two.
• A rent increase exceeding three percent of the prior year's monthly rent could be challenged as unreasonable, with the park owner bearing a preponderance-of-the-evidence burden to justify it — on health and safety grounds, documented operational or capital cost increases, or taxes.
• A delinquent-rent fee capped at eight percent of the delinquent payment.
• A pet fee capped at $4 per pet per month.
• No eviction and no late fees where a digital payment platform is out of service.

The resident-purchase change

The bill would also have lowered the threshold for residents to act collectively when a park is offered for sale: the “representative” test would have moved from “at least 51 percent” to “greater than 50 percent of homes occupied by the owner or an adult family member.”

And an increase approved by a resident-owned cooperative formed under ch. 308A, 308B, 308C or 317A would have been presumptively reasonable and exempt from the one-increase limit — a deliberate thumb on the scale for resident ownership.

1. S.F. 2691 bill status and action history — Minnesota Revisor of Statutes ↩
2. S.F. 2691, third engrossment — the text that passed the Senate ↩
3. InForum / Grand Forks Herald, “Minnesota lawmakers revisit manufactured home park reform” ↩
4. Credit for Sales of Manufactured Home Parks to Cooperatives — Minnesota Department of Revenue ↩
5. S.F. 4306 bill status (second park standards vehicle; never heard) — Minnesota Revisor of Statutes ↩
6. S.F. 1450 bill status (AG approval for park sale to private equity; died in Judiciary) — Minnesota Revisor of Statutes ↩