The Minnesota legislature is about to adjourn for the year, as of Sunday, May 20. A bill to make petition deadlines earlier for newly-qualifying parties and independent candidates did not pass. The bill, HB 1393, moved the primary from August to June. Because Minnesota law ties the date of the primary to the petition deadlines for new parties and also independent candidates, the bill would automatically have made those deadlines two months earlier.

The Minnesota bills to forbid cities from using ranked choice voting for their own elections, HB 3690 and SF 3325, also failed to pass. The Senate bill had passed one committee but did not advance beyond that.

The bills to make the legislature non-partisan also failed to pass. They were HF 1843 and SF 3759.