Minnesota SF 4176: Various immigration policy provisions and appropriation

Status: Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Judiciary and Public Safety (as of 2026-03-18)
State: Minnesota · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: SF 4176
Subjects: Appropriations, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Legal Proceedings, Public Safety and Public Safety Department
Sponsors: Fateh, Boldon, Hoffman, Maye Quade, Pha
Bill Text

1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to immigration; limiting state and local government participation in federal
1.3 civil immigration enforcement efforts; restricting where certain arrests can be
1.4 made; creating a cause of action for certain violations of constitutional rights;
1.5 requiring hospitals to establish and implement policies for interactions with law
1.6 enforcement agents; providing for enforcement; providing immunity for certain
1.7 acts; prohibiting denial of an education based on immigration status; providing a
1.8 civil cause of action when right to education is denied based on immigration status;
1.9 classifying data; requiring reports; appropriating money; amending Minnesota
1.10 Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 13.32, subdivision 5; proposing coding for new
1.11 law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 13; 120A; 135A; 144; 604; 629; repealing
1.12 Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 631.50; 631.51.
1.13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.14 ARTICLE 1
1.15 LIMITATIONS ON CIVIL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT
1.16 Section 1. [629.80] CIVIL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT; ACTIVITIES
1.17 PROHIBITED; POLICIES REQUIRED.
1.18 Subdivision 1.Definitions.(a) For purposes of sections 629.80 to 629.82, the following
1.19 terms have the meanings given.
1.20 (b) "Civil immigration enforcement" means all efforts to: (1) investigate, detect,
1.21 apprehend, or detain an individual with the purpose of enforcing or executing federal
1.22 immigration statutes relating to removal, exclusion, or deportation proceedings; deportation
1.23 or removal orders; or removal from the United States; or (2) assist in the investigation of,
1.24 or civil arrest of, any persons for the purposes of enforcing federal civil immigration law,
1.25 including but not limited to violations of United States Code, title 8, sections 1182 and
1.26 1227. Civil immigration enforcement does not apply to efforts to assist individuals in
1Article 1 Section 1.
S4176-1 1st EngrossmentSF4176 REVISOR VH
SENATE
STATE OF MINNESOTA
S.F. No. 4176NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
(SENATE AUTHORS: FATEH, Maye Quade, Hoffman, Boldon and Pha)
OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
Introduction and first reading651903/05/2026
Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety
Author added Pha658003/09/2026
Withdrawn and re-referred to State and Local Government6580
Comm report: To pass as amended and re-refer to Judiciary and Public Safety6794a03/18/2026

2.1 applying for immigration benefits or efforts to prevent deportation or removal from the
2.2 United States. Civil immigration enforcement does not include the enforcement of criminal
2.3 law.
2.4 (c) "Civil immigration warrant" means a document that is not approved or ordered by a
2.5 judge that can form the basis for an individual's arrest or detention for a civil immigration
2.6 enforcement purpose. Civil immigration warrant includes Form I-200 Warrant for the Arrest
2.7 of Alien, Form I-203 Order to Detain or Release Alien, Form I-205 Warrant of
2.8 Removal/Deportation, Form I-286 Notice of Custody Determination, any predecessor or
2.9 successor form, and all warrants, hits, or requests contained in the Immigration Violator
2.10 File of the FBI's National Crime Information Center database.
2.11 (d) "Federal immigration authority" means an officer, employee, personnel, or agent of
2.12 a federal agency that is charged with civil immigration enforcement, including but not
2.13 limited to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the United States
2.14 Customs and Border Protection.
2.15 (e) "Government personnel" means a person employed by a government unit.
2.16 (f) "Government unit" means a state department, agency, commission, council, board,
2.17 task force, or committee; a constitutional office; a court entity; the Minnesota State Colleges
2.18 and Universities; a county, statutory or home rule charter city, or town; a school district; a
2.19 special district; or any other board, commission, district, or authority created under law,
2.20 local ordinance, or charter provision.
2.21 (g) "Judicial warrant" means a warrant based upon probable cause issued by a state or
2.22 federal judge or federal magistrate judge.
2.23 (h) "Public safety agency" means:
2.24 (1) a law enforcement agency as defined in section 626.84, subdivision 1, paragraph (f);
2.25 (2) a correctional facility as defined in section 241.021, subdivision 1i, including a
2.26 juvenile facility licensed by the commissioner of human services and subject to section
2.27 241.021, subdivision 2;
2.28 (3) an agency providing probation services under section 244.19, subdivision 3; and
2.29 (4) a public or private entity providing security services to an entity that is controlled
2.30 by the state of Minnesota, including but not limited to public schools, public universities,
2.31 health care facilities, drug rehabilitation facilities, and hospitals.
2.32 (i) "Public sa
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