# HF 1596 *Minnesota House bill of the 94th Legislature (2025) amending the data-practices classification of certain Metropolitan Council officials' complaint and disciplinary data.* HF 1596 is a House File of the 94th [[Minnesota Legislature]], introduced on February 25, 2025. As introduced, it amends [[Minn. Stat. § 13.43]], subdivision 2. The amendment classifies certain [[Metropolitan Council (Minnesota)]] officials as "public officials" for the purposes of complaint and disciplinary data.[^1] The introduced text makes no amendment to Minn. Stat. § 473.123, the section governing Metropolitan Council membership, terms, appointment and election.[^1] The project's at-issue record identifies HF 1596 as the bill most often cited as Met Council reform and describes it as "a data-practices bill."[^2] The record assembled here does not establish who sponsored the bill or their party. It also does not establish the bill's committee history or whether it was enacted; the only version documented is the text as introduced.[^1] ## What The Revisor of Statutes publishes the bill's introduced text as version 0, dated February 25, 2025. Its operative change is to Minn. Stat. § 13.43, subd. 2. That change brings certain Metropolitan Council officials within the "public officials" category for complaint and disciplinary data.[^1] The introduced text contains no provision amending § 473.123. Membership, terms, appointment and election of the Council are therefore unchanged by the bill as introduced.[^1] ## In the at-issue record The project's at-issue record carries one item on the bill, AI-Dakota-069, drawn from the *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix* (September 2, 2026). As of that date, the item states that two and a half years had passed since a task force reported that accountability was the basic issue. It also states that no Met Council governance restructuring had been enacted in that time. It further states that HF 1596 "does not touch membership, election, appointment or terms." On the bill's scope, the introduced text bears out the item: the only section it amends is § 13.43, and § 473.123 is not amended.[^1] The item lists a commission source (lcc.mn.gov) for the task-force and enactment statements. That source is not among the URLs in this record. The item pairs the bill with the White House presidential action *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025). The item gives its reason for the pairing as the documented gap between a data-classification amendment and governance reform. The record here does not show that the presidential action addresses HF 1596 or the Metropolitan Council.[^2] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota Legislature, Office of the Revisor of Statutes, *HF 1596, 94th Legislature (2025), version 0 (as introduced)* (Feb. 25, 2025) — amends Minn. Stat. § 13.43, subd. 2, classifying certain Metropolitan Council officials as "public officials" for complaint and disciplinary data purposes; makes no amendment to § 473.123 membership, terms, appointment or election. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/1596/versions/0/ [^2]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025) — the presidential action that the project's at-issue item AI-Dakota-069 (*Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix*, Sept. 2, 2026) pairs with HF 1596. It is cited for that pairing only, not for any statement about HF 1596 or the Metropolitan Council. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/