# Portal - One Minnesota Regime _An entry point to this project's articles on the governors' orders, councils, offices, plan and budget that carry the One Minnesota name, the statutes that bound them, the measures they set, and the federal order and suit that now press on the same ground_ | Portal - One Minnesota Regime | | |---|---| | Type | portal; publish: false; restates the record; not a finding | | Regime, as the corpus frames it | the equity canopy of Executive Order 19-01 and the One Minnesota Plan[^1][^2] | | Statute, as the corpus frames it | none: the regime stub lists no act, and the companion file says the apparatus rests on executive-order authority alone[^1][^3] | | Toll, as the corpus frames it | none named[^1] | | Immunity, as the corpus frames it | a frame under which measurement is treated as bad faith, so that no regime carries an outcome metric[^2] | | Federal caption, as the corpus frames it | none named[^1] | | What the record shows | a line of governors' orders from 1991 to 2023 creating advisory councils on affirmative action, diversity, inclusion and equity, under governors of the Independent-Republican and Democratic-Farmer-Labor parties; statutes that cap, name and end such councils; an Office of Inclusion in the state budget agency; numeric hiring and retention goals[^4][^5][^6][^7][^8][^9][^10] | | Federal actions | none naming these orders in the record read; Executive Order 14173 (Jan. 21, 2025) on federal grants and contracts; *United States v. State of Minnesota*, No. 0:26-cv-00273 (Title VII, filed Jan. 14, 2026), against hiring under § 43A.191[^11][^12] | | Parent article | [[How Minnesota Got Here]] | | Status | portal; seventeen articles in four parts; adjudicates nothing | **The One Minnesota Regime** is the name this project's corpus gives to one of the ten "regimes" in its At Issue folder: in the stub's words an equity canopy, built on Governor Tim Walz's Executive Order 19-01 and the One Minnesota Plan.[^1] The companion essay adds that a 2023 order created a Chief Equity Officer and argues that the canopy makes measurement look like bad faith, which it gives as the reason no regime it surveys carries an outcome metric; a second corpus file says the whole apparatus rests on executive-order authority with no statute behind it.[^2][^3] This portal leads to the articles that set those claims against the orders, statutes, reports and plan. The record is a chain of orders older than the name. In 1991 Governor Arne Carlson, an Independent-Republican, created an Affirmative Action Council chaired by the lieutenant governor; in 2015 and 2016 Governor Mark Dayton replaced it with a Diversity and Inclusion Council; in 2019 Walz replaced that with the One Minnesota Council, in 2021 added a community council, and in 2023 rescinded both founding orders while continuing both councils under new terms.[^4][^13][^5][^14][^15][^6][^16] Two statutes frame every one of them: § 15.0593 lets a governor create advisory councils of no more than fifteen members, and § 4.035 provides that an executive order "shall expire 90 days after the date that the governor who issued the order leaves office" unless an earlier date is set.[^7][^8] Since 2023 a third, § 43A.21, names a "chief inclusion officer" in the statute on state training programs.[^17][^18] The orders also set numbers. The 2019 council was to produce a plan with "metrics for measuring progress"; a 2019 order set a goal of 10 percent employment of people with disabilities in the executive branch, with quarterly reports; a 2023 order recited that the state "strives to retain 75 percent of new hires for at least two years"; and the state's affirmative-action biennial report, transmitted on January 14, 2026, gives the cabinet agencies' workforce by protected group.[^19][^20][^10][^21] The same day the United States sued the State over hiring under § 43A.191; a year earlier a federal order had required a certification term on DEI programs in every federal grant. Neither, in the texts read for this portal, names a One Minnesota order.[^12][^11] ## How to read this portal The articles are grouped in four parts: the orders; the councils and offices; the plan, budget, measures and expiry rule; and the federal frame. Each section gives a footnoted summary, the article it leads to and the articles here it connects to, listed from both ends. Articles marked *new* are not yet in the vault. Statements labelled as the corpus's are claims under test, not findings.[^1][^2][^3][^23] ## The spine | # | Part | Article | What it covers | Kind | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | I. Orders | [[Executive Order 91-14]] | Carlson's Affirmative Action Council, 1991 | new | | 2 | I. Orders | [[Executive Order 16-01 Establishing the Diversity and Inclusion Council; Rescinding Executive Order 15-02]] | Dayton's Diversity and Inclusion Council, 2015–2016 | vault page | | 3 | I. Orders | [[Executive Order 19-01]] | the One Minnesota Council, 2019 | vault page | | 4 | I. Orders | [[Executive Order 21-13]] | the renamed council and the community council, 2021 | new | | 5 | I. Orders | [[Executive Order 23-12]] | both councils continued, both founding orders rescinded, 2023 | vault page | | 6 | I. Orders | [[Executive Order 23-14]] | state hiring, retention and the equity analysis tool, 2023 | new | | 7 | I. Orders | [[Executive Order 19-15; Rescinding Executive Order 14-14- Providing for Increased State Employment of Individuals with Disabilities]] | the disability employment goals, 2014 and 2019 | vault page | | 8 | II. Councils and offices | [[Council on Inclusion and Equity]] | the One Minnesota Council under its three names | vault page | | 9 | II. Councils and offices | [[Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity]] | the appointed community council and its long-range plan | new | | 10 | II. Councils and offices | [[Office of Inclusion (Minnesota)]] | the chief inclusion officer and the office in the budget agency | new | | 11 | II. Councils and offices | [[Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility]] | the Chief Equity Officer, 2023 | new | | 12 | III. Plan, budget and measures | [[One Minnesota Plan]] | the administration's 2023–2027 plan | new | | 13 | III. Plan, budget and measures | [[One Minnesota Budget, 2023]] | the budget label and the 2023 state government act | vault page | | 14 | III. Plan, budget and measures | [[State of Minnesota Executive Branch Affirmative Action Biennial Report (FY2023-2024)]] | the statutory report by protected group | vault page | | 15 | III. Plan, budget and measures | [[Minn. Stat. § 4.035]] | how executive orders take effect and expire | vault page | | 16 | IV. The federal frame | [[Executive Order 14173]] | the federal order on DEI in grants and contracts, 2025 | vault page | | 17 | IV. The federal frame | [[United States v. State of Minnesota (affirmative-action hiring)]] | the Title VII suit over § 43A.191, 2026 | reserved spine; vault page | ## Part I — The orders Nine orders of three governors make up the regime's legal text. Each of the eight orders whose full text was read states that the governor issues it under the authority of the constitution and applicable statutes (the 1991 scan lacks its preamble), each recites the expiry rule of § 4.035, and the council orders among them created or changed a council under the governor's own direction rather than an agency with powers of its own.[^13][^14][^6][^8][^7] The line runs from a 1991 affirmative-action council to the One Minnesota councils, with two employment orders beside them.[^4][^13][^24][^25] ### Executive Order 91-14 Governor Arne Carlson, an Independent-Republican, signed Executive Order 91-14 on May 3, 1991, in the first months of his first term.[^4][^26][^27][^16] It created an Affirmative Action Council "to develop a long range plan and recommendations" for the state's affirmative action program and its equal-opportunity bidding procedures, and to advise the governor and the Legislature on equal opportunity.[^28] The lieutenant governor chaired it; the other members were the commissioners of Human Rights, Employee Relations, Jobs and Training, and Administration, each commissioner listed with the part of the program that office ran.[^28] The order called the council a management team to analyze, recommend and monitor the affirmative-action and procurement programs, "assuring equal access to protected groups under M.S. 43A.19 and M.S. 473.143", the statewide affirmative action statute and the statute on affirmative action plans of the Metropolitan Council and metropolitan agencies.[^28][^29][^30] Its duties were a long-range plan with action steps and goals; an inventory of existing programs with "an assessment of protected group participation in these programs"; and a report on the performance of state government and its agencies that would identify barriers to "the full utilization of all protected groups".[^31] It was to work with the ethnic and disability councils and the women's commission.[^31] The same three elements — a council under the governor, a long-range plan, and goals measured by group — recur in each later council order in this part, and the 2015 order that created the next council rescinded this one by number.[^13][^32] The vault has no page on the order; it is this portal's first gap. Its successor councils are treated in the next two sections, and its statutory base in the biennial report below. _Main article:_ [[Executive Order 91-14]] (new) _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 16-01 Establishing the Diversity and Inclusion Council; Rescinding Executive Order 15-02]] · [[State of Minnesota Executive Branch Affirmative Action Biennial Report (FY2023-2024)]] ### Executive Order 16-01 and Executive Order 15-02 Governor Mark Dayton, of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, signed Executive Order 15-02 on January 20, 2015, "Establishing the Diversity and Inclusion Council; Rescinding Executive Order 91-14".[^13][^32][^16] The governor chaired the council; his Director of Diversity chaired it on his behalf; the commissioner of Human Rights was vice-chair; and seven cabinet members sat on it, including the chair of the Metropolitan Council.[^33] It was to work with the agencies' affirmative action officers, the ethnic councils, the Council on Disability and the office on the economic status of women.[^33] Its duties repeated the 1991 pattern in new terms: best practices in "recruiting, retaining, and promoting state employees", in state contracting and in civic engagement; a long range plan identifying "barriers to success, metrics for measuring progress, and recommendations for agencies"; and a report to the governor and the Legislature by July 1, 2015 and every January 1 after.[^34] Executive Order 16-01, filed in 2016, rescinded 15-02 and re-established the same council with thirteen listed members besides the chair, the Director of Diversity and the vice-chair, adding the commissioners of Higher Education, Human Services and Minnesota Housing, the chancellor of the state colleges, the president of the University and, by invitation, the Secretary of State.[^5][^35] It carried over 15-02's statements that the council's duties support the state's affirmative action program and its implementation across the agencies, and its three committees, on employment, contracting and civic engagement, under the commissioners of Management and Budget, Administration and Human Rights.[^36][^13] The Office of Inclusion's history places a chief inclusion officer in the Dayton governor's office and records the post's end under that administration.[^37] The Legislative Reference Library lists the Diversity and Inclusion Council as the body that preceded the One Minnesota Council, and Executive Order 19-01 rescinded 16-01 by number.[^38][^39] _Main article:_ [[Executive Order 16-01 Establishing the Diversity and Inclusion Council; Rescinding Executive Order 15-02]] _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 91-14]] · [[Executive Order 19-01]] · [[Council on Inclusion and Equity]] ### Executive Order 19-01 Governor Tim Walz, of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, signed Executive Order 19-01 on January 9, 2019, establishing the One Minnesota Council on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity and rescinding 16-01.[^14][^39][^16] His 2023 order calls it "my first executive order", and the Legislative Reference Library's record describes it as his first official action.[^40][^41] The order names disparities "based on race, geography, and economic status" and calls diversity, inclusion and equity "essential core values and top priorities to achieve One Minnesota".[^42] The governor chaired the council; the Chief Inclusion Officer chaired it on his behalf; the deputy chief of staff for public engagement and outreach was vice chair; and its members were commissioners of cabinet agencies chosen by the governor, with members of the public invited to take part.[^43] It was to set goals on "recruiting; retaining and promoting state employees; state government contracting; and civic engagement", to develop a long-range plan with "metrics for measuring progress", and to "prepare a report to the Governor and the Legislature on an annual basis".[^19][^44] On April 23, 2019, the library records, the governor named a chief inclusion officer and raised the post to the level of an assistant commissioner.[^41] The order took effect fifteen days after publication and was to remain in force until rescinded or until it expired under § 4.035, subdivision 3.[^39][^8] It was amended in 2021 and rescinded in 2023 by orders that kept its council.[^45][^46] Of the vault's two pages on it, the one linked here draws on the corpus's account, not the order's text.[^3] _Main article:_ [[Executive Order 19-01]] _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 16-01 Establishing the Diversity and Inclusion Council; Rescinding Executive Order 15-02]] · [[Executive Order 21-13]] · [[Executive Order 23-12]] · [[Executive Order 19-15; Rescinding Executive Order 14-14- Providing for Increased State Employment of Individuals with Disabilities]] · [[Council on Inclusion and Equity]] · [[Office of Inclusion (Minnesota)]] · [[Minn. Stat. § 4.035]] ### Executive Order 21-13 Walz signed Executive Order 21-13 on March 18, 2021, and it was filed with the Secretary of State the same day.[^15][^47] The Legislative Reference Library's record of the One Minnesota Council gives March 15 in its authority line and March 18 in its history, and its record of the community council gives March 18; the order's own text says March 18.[^38][^48][^47] The preamble names systemic racism as a cause of disparities and states that "We must dismantle systemic racism through our practices and policy choices".[^49] The order did two things. It renamed the 2019 council the Governor's One Minnesota Council on Inclusion and Equity, leaving 19-01 otherwise in force; and it established the Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity, chaired by the Chief Inclusion Officer, convened and staffed by the Governor's Office of Inclusion, and made up of up to fourteen members appointed by the governor.[^45][^50] The governor was to seek members from the communities "most impacted by the disparities, inequities, and systemic racism" in the state, and the community council was to advise the One Minnesota Council and prepare an annual report to the governor.[^50] Section 15.0593 requires a council created by executive order to carry a name beginning with forms such as Governor's Council on; the 2019 name did not begin with the word Governor's, and the 2021 name does.[^7][^43][^45] The office's 2024 report credits the community council with producing the long-range plan that the 2023 order set out to implement.[^9][^40] The vault has no page on the order. _Main article:_ [[Executive Order 21-13]] (new) _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 19-01]] · [[Executive Order 23-12]] · [[Council on Inclusion and Equity]] · [[Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity]] · [[Office of Inclusion (Minnesota)]] ### Executive Order 23-12 Executive Order 23-12, "Providing Equitable, Inclusive, and Effective Government for All", was signed and filed on September 29, 2023.[^6][^46] It rescinded both 19-01 and 21-13 and continued both councils under new terms, stating its purpose as implementing "the long-range plan" that the two councils and agency equity practitioners had developed.[^46][^40] Its preamble recites that on March 29, 2023 the governor appointed the state's first Chief Equity Officer, to gather community input and formulate "recommendations for state leaders on budget, policy, and executive actions targeted at eliminating disparities".[^51] The One Minnesota Council, under the order, consists of the governor or his designee as chair, the Chief Equity Officer and the Chief Inclusion Officer as vice-chairs, the deputy chief of staff for public engagement, and up to eleven members from state agencies: three commissioners, four deputy or assistant commissioners and four equity practitioners.[^52] That is at most fifteen, the limit § 15.0593 sets; the community council's two co-chairs, vice chair and up to twelve appointees reach the same number.[^52][^53][^7] The Office of Inclusion staffs the One Minnesota Council and works with agencies on "agency-specific equity plans"; the Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility staffs the community council.[^52][^54][^53] The council is to monitor and advise on legislative policies and state programs aimed at decreasing inequities, and from 2024 to present an annual report on the long-range plan to the governor by December 31.[^54] The 2019 order's annual report went to "the Governor and the Legislature"; the 2023 order's goes to the governor.[^44][^54] The order expires under § 4.035, subdivision 3, unless rescinded first.[^46][^8] The corpus's description of the order is checked below.[^3][^2] _Main article:_ [[Executive Order 23-12]] _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 19-01]] · [[Executive Order 21-13]] · [[Executive Order 23-14]] · [[Council on Inclusion and Equity]] · [[Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity]] · [[Office of Inclusion (Minnesota)]] · [[Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility]] · [[One Minnesota Plan]] · [[Minn. Stat. § 4.035]] · [[Executive Order 14173]] ### Executive Order 23-14 A month later came Executive Order 23-14, "Improving Access to State Employment", signed and filed on October 30, 2023.[^24][^55] Its preamble puts the state's workforce at nearly 38,000 employees in more than 1,800 job classes, states that "The state strives to retain 75 percent of new hires for at least two years", and cites a 2023 employee survey in which "only 56 percent of respondents are satisfied with career advancement opportunities in state government".[^10] It names as barriers degree requirements where no degree is needed, vague job titles and descriptions, and a careers website that is hard to navigate.[^56] The order gave Minnesota Management and Budget dated duties: leader competencies by November 30, 2023; by December 31, 2023, an equity analysis tool for updating state human-resources policies, in alignment with the community council's long-range plan; by January 31, 2024, hiring guidance that emphasizes skills and work experience and uses degree requirements "as a minimum qualification only as necessary"; tools by June 30, 2024; and recommendations on the careers website by July 31, 2024.[^57][^58] Every agency listed in § 15.06, subdivision 1, together with the Office of Higher Education and the Department of Military Affairs, was to report each October on employees' development plans, use the equity analysis tool to review at least five human-resources or labor-relations policies a year, and add working titles to job postings where needed to describe the job.[^55] The Office of Inclusion reported in 2024 that eleven cabinet agencies had adopted the state's tool and seven more used their own, and that it had applied the tool to five key policies "in alignment with Executive Order 23-14".[^59] The federal suit filed in 2026 concerns hiring under § 43A.191; the complaint read for that article does not mention this order.[^12] The vault has no page on the order. _Main article:_ [[Executive Order 23-14]] (new) _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 23-12]] · [[Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity]] · [[Office of Inclusion (Minnesota)]] · [[United States v. State of Minnesota (affirmative-action hiring)]] ### Executive Order 19-15 and Executive Order 14-14 Two orders on the employment of people with disabilities run beside the council orders. Dayton signed Executive Order 14-14 on August 4, 2014; it recited that the share of state employees who identified as having a disability had fallen from about 10 percent in 1999 to less than 4 percent in 2013, and directed agencies, under § 43A.19, to use their best efforts toward the budget office's goal of raising it "to at least seven percent by August, 2018".[^60] It also required agency plans with performance targets, quarterly reports to the governor on the agencies' progress and posted statistics.[^61] Walz rescinded it with Executive Order 19-15, signed April 1, 2019.[^25][^62] The new order recited that the share had risen from 4 percent in 2013 to more than 7 percent in 2018, invoked §§ 43A.19 and 43A.191, and set "a goal of 10% of employment of people with disabilities in the executive branch".[^63][^20] It required a budget-office plan within 180 days, quarterly reports to the governor on hiring, posted statistics on hiring and turnover, and agency plans; it states that it creates no enforceable right and is not to be read to require any employee to disclose disability status involuntarily.[^20][^62] The legislature put part of the same program into statute in 2023: article 8 of the state government act, on state employees with disabilities, required the commissioner to designate a statewide ADA and disability employment director in § 43A.19.[^64][^65] The biennial report for fiscal 2024 gives persons with disabilities as 14.0 percent of the cabinet agencies' workforce.[^21] _Main article:_ [[Executive Order 19-15; Rescinding Executive Order 14-14- Providing for Increased State Employment of Individuals with Disabilities]] _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 19-01]] · [[One Minnesota Budget, 2023]] · [[State of Minnesota Executive Branch Affirmative Action Biennial Report (FY2023-2024)]] ## Part II — The councils and offices The orders created two councils and relied on two offices. The councils are bodies of the kind § 15.0593 allows a governor to create in the governor's office "to advise or assist on matters relating to the laws of this state"; the offices are the Office of Inclusion, now in the state budget agency, and the Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility.[^7][^52][^53][^9] Of the two officers who lead the offices, only the chief inclusion officer is named in a statute read for this portal.[^17] ### Council on Inclusion and Equity The One Minnesota Council has carried three names: the One Minnesota Council on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity under the 2019 order, the Governor's One Minnesota Council on Inclusion and Equity under the 2021 order, and the Governor's One Minnesota Council on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity under the 2023 order, which continued it.[^43][^45][^52] The vault page's title shortens the 2021 name and draws on the corpus's account.[^3] The Legislative Reference Library's record lists the council as active from 2019, gives the three orders as its authority and the Diversity and Inclusion Council as its predecessor, and relates it to the community council.[^38] Its membership changed with each order. In 2019 it was made up of commissioners of cabinet agencies chosen by the governor, with the Chief Inclusion Officer presiding for him; since 2023 it has had the governor or a designee as chair, the Chief Equity Officer and Chief Inclusion Officer as vice-chairs, the deputy chief of staff for public engagement, and up to eleven appointees from agencies, for at most fifteen members.[^43][^52][^66] Under § 15.0593 such a council may have no more than fifteen members, receives expenses but no per diem, and "shall expire two years after the date of order unless otherwise specified" consistent with § 4.035; the statute also bars a governor from creating "a board, commission, authority or other similar multimember agency" except as it provides.[^7][^67] The charge has moved from writing a plan to monitoring one. The 2019 order asked for a long-range plan identifying barriers, metrics and recommendations; the 2023 order asks the council to monitor and advise on policies and programs aimed at decreasing inequities and to report each year on the plan's implementation.[^19][^52] The Office of Inclusion reported that in 2024 it led the council's redesign and relaunch with the Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility and the Office of Public Engagement.[^68] _Main article:_ [[Council on Inclusion and Equity]] _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 16-01 Establishing the Diversity and Inclusion Council; Rescinding Executive Order 15-02]] · [[Executive Order 19-01]] · [[Executive Order 21-13]] · [[Executive Order 23-12]] · [[Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity]] · [[One Minnesota Plan]] ### Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity Executive Order 21-13 established the community council in March 2021 as an advisory body of appointed community members: the Chief Inclusion Officer or a designee as chair, and up to fourteen members appointed by the governor from the communities the order describes as most affected by disparities and systemic racism.[^15][^45] The Governor's Office of Inclusion convened and staffed it, and it was to advise the One Minnesota Council and report to the governor each year.[^45] The Legislative Reference Library lists it as active from 2021, under Executive Orders 21-13 and 23-12, with entries in the state's annual reports on multi-member agencies for every year from 2021 through 2026.[^48] The 2023 order continued the council with new terms. The Chief Equity Officer and the Chief Inclusion Officer became co-chairs, the deputy chief of staff for public engagement vice chair, and up to twelve members are appointed by the governor; the Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility now staffs it.[^53][^70] It advises that office, the Office of Inclusion, state agencies and agency equity practitioners, and it reviews the One Minnesota Council's annual report on the long-range plan.[^53] The long-range plan is the council's principal product. The Office of Inclusion's 2024 report states that the community council "produced the Long-range Plan (LRP)", and that the office prepared the first annual report on the plan's implementation in 2024.[^9][^68] Executive Order 23-14 tied the state's equity analysis tool and its skills-based hiring guidance to that plan.[^58] The plan's text was not among the records read for this portal. The vault has no page on the council. _Main article:_ [[Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity]] (new) _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 21-13]] · [[Executive Order 23-12]] · [[Executive Order 23-14]] · [[Council on Inclusion and Equity]] · [[Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility]] ### Office of Inclusion (Minnesota) The Office of Inclusion describes itself in its 2024 annual report as "one of four interagency offices housed within Minnesota Management and Budget", charged with statewide strategies to bring diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility into enterprise policies and practices and to make the state an employer of choice.[^9] Its history, as the report tells it, began with supplier diversity, procurement and community engagement under a chief inclusion officer in the governor's office, ended under the Dayton administration, resumed under Walz, and moved to the budget agency with a shift of focus to the state's own workforce.[^37] The Legislative Reference Library records that in April 2019 the chief inclusion officer post was raised to the level of an assistant commissioner, and that in November 2022 the budget commissioner announced the selection of a new chief inclusion officer.[^41] The post entered statute in 2023. Article 8 of Laws 2023, chapter 62, amended § 43A.21 so that the commissioner develops and administers training "in coordination with the statewide ADA and disability employment director and chief inclusion officer"; the same section now requires that all managers and supervisors receive training on "inclusive work environments, disability awareness, cultural competence, and other equity and diversity areas".[^64][^17][^71] The office itself is not named in the statutes read for this portal; its staffing duties come from the orders.[^45][^52] For 2024 the office reported the relaunch of both councils, the first annual report on the long-range plan, a redesigned template for agency equity change plans, a progress dashboard on agencies' work under the plan, quarterly meetings of more than 100 participants, an equity analysis tool adopted by eleven cabinet agencies, revision of five enterprise policies including those on respectful workplaces and harassment, and analysis of disaggregated employee data against the One Minnesota Plan's goals for inclusion and retention.[^68][^72][^59][^73] It also reported a review group on human-resources and labor-relations policy, launched in December 2024; the chief inclusion officer's letter opening the report names the office's four aims as inclusive decision-making, awareness and education, inclusive policies and practices, and diverse representation.[^74][^75] The vault has no page on the office. _Main article:_ [[Office of Inclusion (Minnesota)]] (new) _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 19-01]] · [[Executive Order 21-13]] · [[Executive Order 23-12]] · [[Executive Order 23-14]] · [[One Minnesota Plan]] · [[One Minnesota Budget, 2023]] ### Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility The Chief Equity Officer is the newest of the posts. Executive Order 23-12 recites that the governor appointed the state's first Chief Equity Officer on March 29, 2023, and describes the post as engaging "all communities through an equitable and accessible lens", gathering input from community members, and formulating recommendations on budget, policy and executive actions aimed at eliminating disparities.[^40][^51] The same order distinguishes the Chief Inclusion Officer, who advances statewide strategies on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility within state government "in order to improve retention".[^51] The Office of Inclusion's timeline records the Chief Equity Officer role as "created to focus on equity and inclusion for residents".[^37] Under the 2023 order the Chief Equity Officer is a vice-chair of the One Minnesota Council and a co-chair of the community council, and the Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility staffs the community council and receives its advice.[^52][^53][^70] The Office of Inclusion reported working with that office on the councils' relaunch and on the design of the state's equity analysis tool.[^68][^59] The records read for this portal give the post and the office no statutory basis: § 43A.21 names a chief inclusion officer but no chief equity officer, and the orders read do not create the office but refer to it as existing.[^17][^53] The affirmative-action biennial report describes the office as one that engages and partners with the public and "drives many efforts included in the One Minnesota Plan", without citing a statute or order for it.[^21] The office's own pages on the state website could not be read for this portal, because the site returned a bot challenge, which this project does not bypass.[^76] The vault has no page on the office. _Main article:_ [[Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility]] (new) _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 23-12]] · [[Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity]] · [[One Minnesota Plan]] ## Part III — Plan, budget and measures The plan and the budget carry the One Minnesota name; the report and the expiry rule were in law long before it.[^77][^78][^79][^8] ### One Minnesota Plan The *One Minnesota Plan 2023–2027* is the administration's statement of mission, vision, priorities and principles. Its building blocks were posted with the Metropolitan Council's meeting materials for March 29, 2023, and that posting is the copy read for this portal; the plan's pages on the state website returned a bot challenge.[^77][^76] The mission is to "Improve the lives of all Minnesotans by working collaboratively to implement policies that achieve results"; the vision is a state that is the best in the country for children to grow up in, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, economic status, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or zip code, in the plan's own list.[^80] The plan names six priority areas: children and families; thriving communities, housing and workforce; healthy Minnesotans; equity and inclusion; Minnesota's environment; and "Fiscal Accountability, Customer Experience, and Measurable Results".[^81] Across all of them it states, "In all of our work, we will seek to end discrimination and eliminate disparities" for people of color and Indigenous community members, women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, immigrants, and people in all zip codes and of all economic statuses.[^81] Among its guiding principles is to "Ask how your actions are reinforcing or removing structural inequity".[^82] The plan is distinct from the councils' long-range plan, which Executive Order 23-12 implements; none of the orders read for this portal adopts the One Minnesota Plan by name.[^40][^58] The Office of Inclusion reported analyzing employee data against the plan's goals for inclusion and retention, and Executive Order 23-14 recites the state's retention aim in numbers.[^73][^10] The corpus quotes the plan's commitment to end discrimination and eliminate disparities accurately; its claim that no regime carries an outcome metric is checked below against the plan's own priority on measurable results.[^2][^81] The vault has no page on the plan. _Main article:_ [[One Minnesota Plan]] (new) _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 23-12]] · [[Council on Inclusion and Equity]] · [[Office of Inclusion (Minnesota)]] · [[Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility]] · [[One Minnesota Budget, 2023]] ### One Minnesota Budget, 2023 The corpus dates the One Minnesota Budget to its signing on May 24, 2023, and treats it as a part of the apparatus; the vault page repeats that account.[^3] The label is older than 2023. In an April 10, 2019 letter on the House judiciary and public safety bill, the Department of Human Rights described the governor's and lieutenant governor's "Budget for One Minnesota" and its funding of regional human-rights offices in Bemidji, Duluth and Worthington; a department paper on the same proposal was titled as a path to One Minnesota and gave the cost of the department's part for fiscal 2020 and 2021.[^78][^83] On May 24, 2023 the governor signed Laws 2023, chapter 62 (H.F. 1830), the state government and elections act, presented to him the day before.[^18][^84] Its appropriation to Minnesota Management and Budget includes $2,500,000 in each year for "interagency collaboration to develop data collection standards for race, ethnicity, gender identity, and disability status" across state government, a onetime sum available until June 30, 2027, and smaller sums for training on the Americans with Disabilities Act, affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, digital accessibility, inclusion, disability awareness and cultural competence.[^85] Its article 8, on state employees with disabilities, added the disability employment director to § 43A.19, the chief inclusion officer to § 43A.21, and a disability subdivision to § 43A.191.[^64][^86][^65] The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party held the House, the Senate and the governorship in the 2023–2024 session.[^87] The records read for this portal include no 2023 document titled the One Minnesota Budget; whether the label was applied to the 2023 enactments rests on the corpus.[^3] _Main article:_ [[One Minnesota Budget, 2023]] _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 19-15; Rescinding Executive Order 14-14- Providing for Increased State Employment of Individuals with Disabilities]] · [[Office of Inclusion (Minnesota)]] · [[One Minnesota Plan]] ### State of Minnesota Executive Branch Affirmative Action Biennial Report (FY2023-2024) The measure the corpus says is missing is one the law has required for decades. Section 43A.191, enacted in 1985, requires the commissioner to report on the affirmative action progress "of each agency and the state as a whole" every second year, and the 2023 act added that the report be posted on the department's website.[^64][^79][^88] The biennial report for July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024 was transmitted on January 14, 2026; it gives the cabinet agencies' workforce in fiscal 2024 as 51.0 percent female, 14.0 percent persons with disabilities and 17.6 percent members of racial or ethnic minorities, with hires and separations by job category.[^21] The report is the descendant of the measures the orders asked for. The 1991 council was to assess "protected group participation" in the affirmative-action and procurement programs; the 2015 and 2019 councils were to plan with metrics for measuring progress; and the 2019 disability order required quarterly reports and posted statistics toward its 10 percent goal.[^28][^34][^19][^20] The report's figure for persons with disabilities in the cabinet agencies, 14.0 percent, exceeds the 10 percent the 2019 order set as an executive-branch goal.[^21][^20] The United States filed its Title VII suit over hiring under § 43A.191 on the day the report was transmitted.[^21][^12] The report and the statute are treated in the [[Portal - Affirmative Action Regime]], which this portal shares them with. _Main article:_ [[State of Minnesota Executive Branch Affirmative Action Biennial Report (FY2023-2024)]] _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 91-14]] · [[Executive Order 19-15; Rescinding Executive Order 14-14- Providing for Increased State Employment of Individuals with Disabilities]] · [[United States v. State of Minnesota (affirmative-action hiring)]] ### Minn. Stat. § 4.035 Section 4.035, enacted in 1977, governs the form and life of every executive order: orders are uniform in format and numbered consecutively, orders creating agencies must be consistent with § 15.0593, and under subdivision 3, "Unless an earlier date is specified by statute or by executive order, an executive order shall expire 90 days after the date that the governor who issued the order leaves office".[^8][^89] The section was last amended in 2007.[^8] Its companion, § 15.0593, enacted the same year, limits the councils a governor may create by order and provides that they expire two years after the order unless otherwise specified consistent with § 4.035, subdivision 3.[^7][^67] Every order in Part I recites the rule. Each states, most of them citing the statutes of a named year, that it remains in effect until rescinded or until it expires under subdivision 3.[^27][^39][^62][^47][^46][^55] The corpus states that a single successor's order could dissolve the apparatus; under subdivision 3 no order is needed, because the issuing governor's orders lapse ninety days after he leaves office unless an earlier date is set.[^3][^8] The governor who issued every One Minnesota order took office on January 7, 2019, and the nominees for governor in the November 2026 election are Amy Klobuchar of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Lisa Demuth of the Republican Party.[^16][^90] The vault page on § 4.035 is a fragment drawn from the corpus; this section rests on the statute's text. _Main article:_ [[Minn. Stat. § 4.035]] _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 19-01]] · [[Executive Order 23-12]] ## Part IV — The federal frame No federal action in the records read names a One Minnesota order. Two federal instruments bear on the same ground: a presidential order setting terms for every federal grant, and a suit against the hiring statute the disability orders invoke.[^11][^12][^25] ### Executive Order 14173 President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14173, "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity", on January 21, 2025; it was published in the Federal Register on January 31.[^11][^92] Its policy section orders federal agencies "to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions" and like measures; § 3(b)(i) revokes Executive Order 11246.[^93][^92] Section 3(b)(iv) requires that every federal contract or grant award include two terms: that the recipient's compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws is material to payment decisions under the False Claims Act, and that the recipient "certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws".[^11] The State of Minnesota is a recipient of federal awards on a large scale: its single audit for fiscal 2025 reports $20,815,212,884 in federal expenditures.[^95] How the certification term applies to the state's awards is treated in [[Federal nondiscrimination certifications of the State of Minnesota]]. The two orders use the same vocabulary to different ends: the federal order directs federal agencies to end the DEI preferences and programs it calls illegal, and the state order directs strategies to incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility into all aspects of state government.[^93][^40] The orders read for this portal include none issued after January 2025. _Main article:_ [[Executive Order 14173]] _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 23-12]] · [[United States v. State of Minnesota (affirmative-action hiring)]] ### United States v. State of Minnesota (affirmative-action hiring) On January 14, 2026 the United States sued the State of Minnesota under Title VII, No. 0:26-cv-00273 in the District of Minnesota, alleging a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin and sex in state hiring under § 43A.191 and attaching a Department of Human Services hiring-justification policy as an exhibit.[^12][^96][^97][^98] The complaint does not mention the One Minnesota orders, councils or offices.[^12] The suit reaches the statutes on which the employment orders rest. Executive Order 19-15 directs agencies, "In accordance with Minnesota Statutes 2018, sections 43A.19 and 43A.191", to meet their affirmative action goals for people with disabilities; Executive Order 23-14 concerns the hiring process that § 43A.191 regulates.[^20][^10][^79] The state's biennial report under § 43A.191 was transmitted the day the suit was filed.[^21] The docket, the State's answer and the later pleadings are summarized in the main article and in the [[Portal - Affirmative Action Regime]].[^99] _Main article:_ [[United States v. State of Minnesota (affirmative-action hiring)]] _Connects to:_ [[Executive Order 23-14]] · [[State of Minnesota Executive Branch Affirmative Action Biennial Report (FY2023-2024)]] · [[Executive Order 14173]] ## Two readings The two readings below are the strongest forms of the positions the record supports. This portal adopts neither.[^2][^3] **Reading one: a standing equity apparatus, built by order and kept by both parties.** On this reading the articles describe one apparatus whose form has held for thirty-five years. An Independent-Republican governor first set an executive-branch council, chaired by the lieutenant governor, to monitor "protected group participation" and to plan for the full use of protected groups; a DFL governor rebuilt it as a diversity council supporting the affirmative action program; and the present governor turned it into two councils with two chief officers, agency equity plans, an equity analysis tool that every agency must apply to five personnel policies a year, and a plan that names the groups for whom the state seeks to end disparities.[^28][^31][^36][^52][^55][^81] Its hiring goals are set by protected group under §§ 43A.19 and 43A.191, and the disability goal rose from seven to ten percent by order.[^60][^25][^29] The legislature wrote the chief inclusion officer into § 43A.21 and funded data standards for race, ethnicity, gender identity and disability status in 2023, when one party held both houses and the governorship; and the council's annual report, which in 2019 went to the governor and the Legislature, has since 2023 gone to the governor alone.[^85][^64][^87][^44][^54] On this reading the federal order of 2025 and the suit of 2026 are the first outside checks on an apparatus that the parties in Minnesota built in turn and that no Minnesota governor of either party is shown in this record to have dismantled.[^11][^12] **Reading two: advisory councils and personnel management, bounded by statute and by their own expiry.** The councils are advisory bodies of the kind § 15.0593 permits, capped at fifteen members and paid no per diem, and every order lapses ninety days after the governor who issued it leaves office.[^7][^8] The disability order states that it creates no enforceable right and requires no one to disclose a disability; the 2023 hiring order concerns retention, development plans, degree requirements and job titles.[^62][^57][^55] The measures the corpus says are missing are public: the statutory biennial report by protected group, quarterly disability reports, a recited retention aim of 75 percent, and a plan whose sixth priority is "Measurable Results".[^21][^20][^10][^81] On this reading the federal frame does not reach these orders at all: the suit names § 43A.191, a statute enacted under a DFL governor in 1985 and amended by thirteen later session laws under governors of both parties, and the federal order's certification term applies to every grant recipient without naming any Minnesota instrument.[^79][^88][^12][^11] The orders read give the councils no power to grant or deny any person a job, contract or benefit; their duties are plans, advice, reports and training.[^28][^36][^52][^68] **What both readings foreclose.** Both rest on the same orders, statutes, reports and plan. Neither is supported by the claims that the apparatus has no statute, that its orders carry no metric, that Executive Order 23-12 created the Chief Equity Officer, or that a successor's order is needed to end it.[^17][^7][^19][^40][^8] ## Timeline | Date | Instrument | |---|---| | 1977 | §§ 4.035 and 15.0593 enacted[^8][^7] | | June 27, 1985 | § 43A.191 enacted (Perpich, DFL)[^88] | | May 3, 1991 | Executive Order 91-14, Affirmative Action Council (Carlson, IR)[^4][^16] | | August 4, 2014 | Executive Order 14-14, disability employment goal of seven percent (Dayton, DFL)[^60] | | January 20, 2015 | Executive Order 15-02, Diversity and Inclusion Council; 91-14 rescinded (Dayton)[^13] | | 2016 | Executive Order 16-01 re-establishes the council; 15-02 rescinded (Dayton)[^5][^36] | | January 9, 2019 | Executive Order 19-01, One Minnesota Council; 16-01 rescinded (Walz, DFL)[^14] | | April 1, 2019 | Executive Order 19-15, disability goal of ten percent; 14-14 rescinded (Walz)[^25] | | April 10, 2019 | Human Rights department letter on the "Budget for One Minnesota"[^78] | | April 23, 2019 | Chief inclusion officer post raised to assistant-commissioner level[^41] | | March 18, 2021 | Executive Order 21-13, council renamed; community council established (Walz)[^45] | | March 29, 2023 | First Chief Equity Officer appointed; plan building blocks posted with the Metropolitan Council's meeting materials[^40][^77] | | May 24, 2023 | Laws 2023, ch. 62: data-standards appropriation; chief inclusion officer added to § 43A.21 (Walz)[^84][^64] | | September 29, 2023 | Executive Order 23-12; 19-01 and 21-13 rescinded, both councils continued (Walz)[^46] | | October 30, 2023 | Executive Order 23-14, state employment (Walz)[^55] | | January 21, 2025 | Executive Order 14173[^11] | | January 14, 2026 | Affirmative-action biennial report transmitted; Title VII suit filed, No. 0:26-cv-00273[^21][^12] | ## Corpus claims checked The corpus is the regime stub, the *Ten Regimes, One Machine* essays, the folder's single file and the densified companion.[^1][^2][^23][^3] Each claim is set beside the record. | Claim in the corpus | What the record shows | Sources | |---|---|---| | Executive Order 23-12 created a Chief Equity Officer | The order recites the appointment of the first Chief Equity Officer on March 29, 2023, six months earlier, and makes the officer vice-chair of one council and co-chair of the other | [^2][^40][^53][^37] | | None of the regimes carries an outcome metric | Executive Order 19-01 required metrics for measuring progress; Executive Order 19-15 set a 10 percent goal with quarterly reports; Executive Order 23-14 recites a 75 percent two-year retention aim; § 43A.191 requires a biennial report by protected group; the plan's sixth priority is measurable results | [^2][^19][^20][^10][^21][^81] | | The apparatus rests on executive-order authority, with no statute | The councils are created by order under § 15.0593 and end under § 4.035; since 2023 § 43A.21 names the chief inclusion officer; the disability director is in § 43A.19 | [^3][^7][^8][^17][^64] | | Executive Order 23-12 renewed a coordination function across 24 cabinet agencies | The order gives no number of agencies; it provides for up to eleven agency members, the full cabinet's involvement and agency equity plans | [^3][^52] | | Executive Order 19-01 was Walz's first official act | The 2023 order calls it the governor's first executive order; the Legislative Reference Library's record calls it his first official action | [^3][^40][^41] | | A single successor's order could dissolve the apparatus | Under § 4.035, subd. 3, the issuing governor's orders expire ninety days after he leaves office unless an earlier date is set; no successor order is needed | [^3][^8] | | The One Minnesota Budget was signed May 24, 2023 | Laws 2023, ch. 62 was signed that day; the Budget for One Minnesota label appears on the 2019 budget; no 2023 document with that title was read | [^3][^84][^78] | | The plan's mission is to end discrimination and eliminate disparities for listed groups | The plan's building blocks state that in all of its work the state will seek to end discrimination and eliminate disparities for the groups they list; the state website's copy was not read | [^2][^81][^76] | | The council is a conference | Every order names a council; none uses the word conference | [^23][^43][^45][^52] | ## Other portals The other At Issue portals are [[Portal - Affirmative Action Regime]] · [[Portal - Climate Regime]] · [[Portal - Community Action Programs Regime]] · [[Portal - Feminism Regime]] · [[Portal - Metropolitan Council Regime]] · [[Portal - New Minnesotans Regime]] · [[Portal - PELRA Regime]] · [[Portal - Professional Association Regime]] · [[Portal - University of Minnesota Regime]]. The Affirmative Action portal shares the biennial report, § 43A.191, Executive Order 14173 and the Title VII suit; the New Minnesotans portal takes up the corpus's account of the 2023 budget's funding for new arrivals.[^1][^21][^3] ## See also - [[How Minnesota Got Here]] · [[Federal nondiscrimination certifications of the State of Minnesota]] · [[Minn. Stat. § 43A.191]] - [[Diversity, equity, and inclusion]] · [[Tim Walz]] ## Notes [^1]: Corpus file (not a source of fact), *One Minnesota Regime*, regime node in Actions At Issue Arguments (created July 15, 2026), status stub — the regime as the equity canopy of Executive Order 19-01 and the One Minnesota Plan; no act or statute listed; Tim Walz under people; 2019 under dates; theory T13; no federal action listed. [^2]: Corpus file (not a source of fact), *Ten Regimes, One Machine*, Essay I, 5,000-word steelman (drafted June 12, 2026), section XI, The Canopy — Executive Order 19-01, an Executive Order 23-12 said to create a Chief Equity Officer, the One Minnesota Plan's mission, and the claim that no regime surveyed carries an outcome metric. [^3]: Corpus file (not a source of fact), *The Instrument No One Will Name*, densified companion (June 18, 2026), section 5 and notes 29–30 — One Minnesota as campaign brand and apparatus: the council of Executive Order 19-01, a 2023–2027 plan, a budget signed May 24, 2023, coordination across 24 cabinet agencies, and executive-order authority with no statute. [^4]: Executive Order 91-14, *Providing for a State Affirmative Action Council*, signed by Governor Arne Carlson May 3, 1991 (LRL scan with the Department of Administration's cover memo) — the lieutenant governor chairs a council of four commissioners; long-range plan; assessment of protected group participation in affirmative action and procurement programs under §§ 43A.19 and 473.143. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/91-14.pdf [^5]: Executive Order 16-01, *Establishing the Diversity and Inclusion Council; Rescinding Executive Order 15-02*, Governor Mark Dayton, filed 2016 — the same council re-established with thirteen members, adding the commissioners of Higher Education, Human Services and Minnesota Housing, the state colleges' chancellor, the University's president and the Secretary of State by invitation; three committees. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/16-01.pdf [^6]: Executive Order 23-12, *Providing Equitable, Inclusive, and Effective Government for All; Rescinding Executive Order 19-01 and Executive Order 21-13*, signed and filed September 29, 2023 — continues both councils with new membership; recites the March 29, 2023 appointment of the first Chief Equity Officer; Office of Inclusion staffing; annual reports to the governor from 2024. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-12.pdf [^7]: Minn. Stat. § 15.0593 (2025), agencies created by executive order, first part — the governor may by order create in the governor's office advisory task forces, councils and committees to advise or assist on the laws of the state, with no more than 15 members, vacancies filled by the governor, and expenses but no per diem. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/15.0593 [^8]: Minn. Stat. § 4.035 (2025), executive orders — subd. 1, uniform format, consecutive numbering, and orders creating agencies consistent with § 15.0593; subd. 3, expiration 90 days after the issuing governor leaves office unless statute or order sets an earlier date; history 1977 c 305 s 2, 1986 c 444, 2007 c 148 art 2 s 3. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/4.035 [^9]: Minnesota Management and Budget, Office of Inclusion, 2024 Annual Report, introduction, mission and vision — one of four interagency offices in the budget agency; statewide strategies on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility; alignment with the One Minnesota Plan; the 2019 and 2021 orders and the community council's long-range plan. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2026/other/261274.pdf [^10]: Executive Order 23-14, preamble (Oct. 30, 2023) — nearly 38,000 state employees in more than 1,800 job classes; hiring at a five-year high; a recital that the state strives to retain 75 percent of new hires for at least two years; 2023 survey and exit-survey figures; barriers in degree requirements, job titles and the careers website. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-14.pdf [^11]: Executive Order 14173 of January 21, 2025, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity*, 90 Fed. Reg. 8633 — § 2, the policy directing federal agencies to end illegal preferences and programs; § 3(b)(iv), terms in every federal contract or grant award on the materiality of anti-discrimination compliance and a recipient certification on DEI programs. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-31/pdf/2025-02097.pdf [^12]: Complaint, *United States v. State of Minnesota*, No. 0:26-cv-00273 (D. Minn. filed Jan. 14, 2026), ¶¶ 1–44 — Title VII and *Weber*, *Johnson* and *Bostock* (¶¶ 3–11, ¶ 7 on later rulings); the statutory and regulatory program: § 43A.19, Minn. R. 3905.0100 and 3905.0600, the protected-group definition, final availability, the pre-hire justification form and § 43A.191. https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1423361/dl [^13]: Executive Order 15-02, *Establishing the Diversity and Inclusion Council; Rescinding Executive Order 91-14*, signed by Governor Mark Dayton January 20, 2015 — the governor chairs, the Director of Diversity chairs on his behalf, the Human Rights commissioner is vice-chair; seven cabinet members; long range plan with barriers, metrics and recommendations; reports from July 1, 2015. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/15-02.pdf [^14]: Executive Order 19-01; Rescinding Executive Order 16-01, *Establishing the One Minnesota Council on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity*, signed by Governor Tim Walz January 9, 2019 — chair, Chief Inclusion Officer and vice chair; goals on hiring, retention, contracting and civic engagement; a long-range plan with metrics; annual reports to the Governor and the Legislature; expiry under § 4.035. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/19-01.pdf [^15]: Executive Order 21-13, *Establishing the Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity and Amending Executive Order 19-01*, signed and filed March 18, 2021 — renames the One Minnesota Council; creates a community council chaired by the Chief Inclusion Officer, convened by the Governor's Office of Inclusion, of up to fourteen appointed members; annual report to the governor. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/21-13.pdf [^16]: Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, "Minnesota Governors" — list with dates of office and party: Perpich (DFL) from 12/29/1976; Quie (Independent-Republican) from 1/4/1979; Perpich from 1/3/1983; Carlson (Independent-Republican) from 1/7/1991; Ventura (Reform) from 1/4/1999; Pawlenty from 1/6/2003; Dayton from 1/3/2011; Walz (DFL) from 1/7/2019. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/lrl/mngov/gov.aspx [^17]: Minn. Stat. § 43A.21 (2025), training programs — subd. 1, the commissioner acting in coordination with the statewide ADA and disability employment director and chief inclusion officer; subd. 3(b), required manager and supervisor training on inclusive work environments and equity and diversity areas; history from 1981 c 210 s 21 to 2023 c 62 art 8 s 17-20. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/43A.21 [^18]: Laws of Minnesota 2023, ch. 62 (H.F. 1830), state government and elections, presented May 23 and signed May 24, 2023 — art. 1, sec. 13, budget-office appropriations, including data-collection standards and inclusion training; art. 8, state employees with disabilities, including sec. 17 adding the chief inclusion officer to § 43A.21, subd. 1. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/62/ [^19]: Executive Order 19-01, paragraphs 8–9 (Jan. 9, 2019) — in consultation with agencies, boards, commissions and external partners, the council to establish goals on recruiting, retaining and promoting state employees, contracting and civic engagement, and to design, create and implement inclusive and equitable practices to address disparities and inequities. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/19-01.pdf [^20]: Executive Order 19-15, paragraphs 1–9 (April 1, 2019) — best efforts under §§ 43A.19 and 43A.191 toward affirmative action goals and a 10 percent executive-branch goal for people with disabilities; a budget-office plan within 180 days; quarterly reporting within 120 days; posted statistics; agency plans; on-the-job demonstration under § 43A.15. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/19-15.pdf [^21]: Minnesota Management and Budget, *State of Minnesota Executive Branch Affirmative Action Biennial Report*, July 1, 2022–June 30, 2024, transmitted Jan. 14, 2026 under § 43A.191, subd. 3 — cabinet-agency representation in fiscal 2024: females 51.0 percent, persons with disabilities 14.0, racial or ethnic minorities 17.6; plan requirements; hires and separations by job category. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2026/mandated/260035.pdf [^23]: Corpus file (not a source of fact), *One Minnesota Conference Critical Analysis* (One Minnesota Regime folder, Nov. 12, 2025), an analysis written with an AI tool in a diagnostic frame of its own; the folder's only file; it calls the council a conference and quotes the plan's mission and vision from the budget office's website. [^24]: Executive Order 23-14, *Improving Access to State Employment*, signed and filed October 30, 2023 — a recital that the state strives to retain 75 percent of new hires for at least two years; duties and deadlines for Minnesota Management and Budget, including leader competencies, an equity analysis tool and skills-based hiring guidance; agency duties on development plans, policy reviews and job titles. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-14.pdf [^25]: Executive Order 19-15; Rescinding Executive Order 14-14, *Providing for Increased State Employment of Individuals with Disabilities*, signed by Governor Tim Walz April 1, 2019 — recites more than 7 percent in 2018; a goal of 10 percent under §§ 43A.19 and 43A.191; a budget-office plan, quarterly reports and posted statistics; no enforceable right and no compelled disclosure. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/19-15.pdf [^26]: Department of Administration, Management Analysis Division, cover memorandum of May 7, 1991 to interested parties, filed with Executive Order 91-14 in the Legislative Reference Library's scan — the order signed by the governor on May 3, 1991 provides for a state affirmative action council. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/91-14.pdf [^27]: Executive Order 91-14, administrative provisions and closing (May 3, 1991) — staff support from the Department of Employee Relations; effective fifteen days after publication under § 4.035, subd. 2; in effect until rescinded or expiry under Minnesota Statutes 1990, section 4.035, subd. 3; signed the third day of May, 1991; filed with the Secretary of State. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/91-14.pdf [^28]: Executive Order 91-14, paragraphs 1–4 (May 3, 1991) — the Affirmative Action Council created to plan for the affirmative action program and equal-opportunity bidding; the lieutenant governor as chair with the commissioners of Human Rights, Employee Relations, Jobs and Training, and Administration; its purpose under §§ 43A.19 and 473.143. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/91-14.pdf [^29]: Minn. Stat. § 43A.19 (2025), statewide affirmative action program — subd. 1(a), its purpose to assure equal access and to eliminate the effects of past and present discrimination; contents of the program; subd. 1(b), goals for each federal EEO occupational category from recruiting-area availability; a state director of diversity and equal employment opportunity. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/43A.19 [^30]: Minn. Stat. § 473.143 (2025), affirmative action plans of the Metropolitan Council and metropolitan agencies — plans approved by the commissioner of management and budget, identifying underrepresented protected groups, with goals and timetables and preemployment review of hiring for groups with unmet goals; history 1988 c 680 s 3; 2008 c 204; 2009 c 101. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/473.143 [^31]: Executive Order 91-14, paragraph 5 (May 3, 1991) — the council's duties: a long-range plan with action steps and goals; cooperation with the ethnic, disability and women's councils and the statewide Affirmative Action Committee; an inventory of programs and assessment of protected group participation; a report on agency performance and barriers. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/91-14.pdf [^32]: Executive Order 15-02, closing (2015) — effective fifteen days after publication in the State Register and filing; in effect until rescinded or until expiry under Minnesota Statutes, section 4.035, subdivision 3; set by the governor's hand on the twentieth day of January, 2015; filed with the Secretary of State. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/15-02.pdf [^33]: Executive Order 15-02, paragraphs 1–9 (Jan. 20, 2015), Governor Mark Dayton — the Diversity and Inclusion Council established; the governor as chair, the Director of Diversity chairing on his behalf, the Human Rights commissioner as vice-chair; seven cabinet members; consultation with affirmative action officers, ethnic councils, the disability council and private employers. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/15-02.pdf [^34]: Executive Order 15-02, paragraph 10 (Jan. 20, 2015) — the council's duties: best practices in recruiting, retaining and promoting state employees, contracting and civic engagement; a long range plan with barriers, metrics and recommendations for agencies; a report to the Governor and the Legislature by July 1, 2015 and each January 1. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/15-02.pdf [^35]: Executive Order 16-01, paragraphs 1–9 (2016), Governor Mark Dayton — the Diversity and Inclusion Council re-established; chair, Director of Diversity and Human Rights vice-chair as in 2015; thirteen listed members including the University's president and the state colleges' chancellor; consultation with agencies' affirmative action officers, ethnic councils and the women's office. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/16-01.pdf [^36]: Executive Order 16-01, paragraphs 10–12 (2016) — the council's duties of best practices, a long range plan and annual reports; its duties to support the state's affirmative action program across the agencies; committees on employment, contracting and civic engagement chaired by the commissioners of Management and Budget, Administration and Human Rights. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/16-01.pdf [^37]: Minnesota Management and Budget, Office of Inclusion, 2024 Annual Report, development timeline — a chief inclusion officer post in the governor's office and its end under the Dayton administration; reappointment under Walz; the move to the budget agency; the 2023 orders; the Chief Equity Officer role created for residents; the 2024 relaunch. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2026/other/261274.pdf [^38]: Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, Minnesota Agencies database, *One Minnesota Council on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity* (record updated Sept. 17, 2026) — also known names; active from 2019; authority Executive Orders 19-01, 21-13 and 23-12; preceded by the Diversity and Inclusion Council; history of the chief inclusion officer post; membership under the 2023 order. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/agencies/detail?AgencyID=2349 [^39]: Executive Order 19-01, paragraph 13 and closing (Jan. 9, 2019) — Executive Order 16-01 rescinded; effective fifteen days after publication in the State Register and filing with the Secretary of State; in effect until rescinded or until expiry under Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 4.035, subdivision 3; signed January 9, 2019. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/19-01.pdf [^40]: Executive Order 23-12, preamble (Sept. 29, 2023) — the history of Executive Orders 19-01 and 21-13 and of the long-range plan; the governor's appointment of the first Chief Equity Officer on March 29, 2023 and that officer's duties; the Chief Inclusion Officer's statewide strategies; the purpose of implementing the long-range plan. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-12.pdf [^41]: Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, Minnesota Agencies database, One Minnesota Council, history — the first official action of Governor Walz; the chief inclusion officer post raised to assistant-commissioner level on April 23, 2019; the 2021 renaming; the November 18, 2022 selection of a chief inclusion officer; the September 2023 order. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/agencies/detail?AgencyID=2349 [^42]: Executive Order 19-01, preamble (Jan. 9, 2019), Governor Tim Walz — the governor acts under the constitution and applicable statutes; disparities based on race, geography and economic status keep the state from its full potential; diversity, inclusion and equity named essential core values and top priorities to achieve One Minnesota. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/19-01.pdf [^43]: Executive Order 19-01, paragraphs 1–7 (Jan. 9, 2019) — the One Minnesota Council established; the governor as chair, the Chief Inclusion Officer chairing on the governor's behalf, the deputy chief of staff for public engagement and outreach as vice chair; cabinet commissioners selected by the governor; public participation invited. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/19-01.pdf [^44]: Executive Order 19-01, paragraphs 10–12 (Jan. 9, 2019) — a long-range plan to identify barriers to success, metrics for measuring progress and recommendations; committees as necessary; and an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature providing an update on the status of the council's activities. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/19-01.pdf [^45]: Executive Order 21-13, paragraphs 1–2 (March 18, 2021) — the One Minnesota Council established by Executive Order 19-01 renamed the Governor's One Minnesota Council on Inclusion and Equity, with 19-01 otherwise remaining in full force and effect; the Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity established. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/21-13.pdf [^46]: Executive Order 23-12, paragraph 3 and closing (Sept. 29, 2023) — Executive Orders 19-01 and 21-13 rescinded; effective fifteen days after publication and filing; expiry under Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 4.035, subdivision 3; severability; signed by the governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 29, 2023. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-12.pdf [^47]: Executive Order 21-13, closing (March 18, 2021) — effective fifteen days after publication and filing; in effect until rescinded or until expiry under Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 4.035, subdivision 3; severability; signed March 18, 2021 and filed with the Secretary of State the same day. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/21-13.pdf [^48]: Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, Minnesota Agencies database, *Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity* — active from 2021; authority Executive Orders 21-13 (March 18, 2021) and 23-12; functions; membership under both orders; staffing by the Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility; entries in the multi-member agencies reports for 2021 to 2026. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/Agencies/detail?AgencyID=2446 [^49]: Executive Order 21-13, preamble (March 18, 2021) — disparities and systemic racism named; the 2019 council's framework and its planned long-range plan with metrics; the Governor's Office of Inclusion to establish a community council to advise, support and collaborate with the One Minnesota Council. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/21-13.pdf [^50]: Executive Order 21-13, paragraphs 3–7 (March 18, 2021) — the Chief Inclusion Officer or designee as chair; the Governor's Office of Inclusion to convene and staff; up to fourteen members appointed from communities most affected by disparities; advice and collaboration with the One Minnesota Council; an annual report to the governor. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/21-13.pdf [^51]: Executive Order 23-12, preamble on the officers (Sept. 29, 2023) — the first Chief Equity Officer appointed March 29, 2023 to engage communities and recommend budget, policy and executive actions on disparities; the Chief Inclusion Officer's statewide strategies on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in state government to improve retention. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-12.pdf [^52]: Executive Order 23-12, paragraph 1(a)–(c) (Sept. 29, 2023) — the One Minnesota Council continued; the governor or a designee as chair; the Chief Equity Officer and Chief Inclusion Officer as vice-chairs; the deputy chief of staff for public engagement; up to eleven agency members; the Office of Inclusion to facilitate, staff and support it. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-12.pdf [^53]: Executive Order 23-12, paragraph 2 (Sept. 29, 2023) — the community council continued: the Chief Equity Officer and Chief Inclusion Officer as co-chairs, a vice chair and up to twelve appointees; staffing by the Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility; advisory duties; review of the One Minnesota Council's annual report. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-12.pdf [^54]: Executive Order 23-12, paragraph 1(d)–(h) (Sept. 29, 2023) — the council as a space for equity practitioners and agency leaders; Office of Inclusion support for agency-specific equity plans; monitoring of legislative policies and programs on inequities; the full cabinet's involvement; an annual report to the governor by December 31 beginning in 2024. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-12.pdf [^55]: Executive Order 23-14, paragraph 2 and closing (Oct. 30, 2023) — agencies listed in § 15.06, subd. 1, with the Office of Higher Education and Military Affairs, to report development-plan data by October 6, review five policies a year with the equity tool, update hiring guidance and use working titles; expiry under § 4.035; signed October 30, 2023. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-14.pdf [^56]: Executive Order 23-14, preamble on barriers (Oct. 30, 2023) — degree requirements stated where a degree is not needed; no mechanism for job-related lived experience; vague job titles and descriptions; a careers website hard to navigate; the effect of such barriers on recruiting, advancing and retaining the state workforce. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-14.pdf [^57]: Executive Order 23-14, paragraph 1(a)–(c) (Oct. 30, 2023) — Minnesota Management and Budget to support agencies in career advancement through individual development plans, career conversations and training; to make development training accessible; and to issue leader competencies and a competency definition document by November 30, 2023. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-14.pdf [^58]: Executive Order 23-14, paragraph 1(d)–(g) (Oct. 30, 2023) — an equity analysis tool by December 31, 2023 aligned with the community council's long-range plan; skills-based hiring guidance with degree requirements only as necessary by January 31, 2024; templates by June 30, 2024; careers-website recommendations by July 31, 2024. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/23-14.pdf [^59]: Minnesota Management and Budget, Office of Inclusion, 2024 Annual Report, equitable policies and practices — the State of Minnesota Equity Analysis Tool and guide; adoption reported by eleven cabinet agencies, with seven using their own tools; a pilot review of five key policies in alignment with Executive Order 23-14. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2026/other/261274.pdf [^60]: Executive Order 14-14, *Providing for Increased State Employment of Individuals with Disabilities*, signed by Governor Mark Dayton August 4, 2014 — recites a decline in self-identified state employees with disabilities from about 10 percent in 1999 to under 4 percent in 2013; directs best efforts to reach at least seven percent by August 2018; agency plans. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/14-14.pdf [^61]: Executive Order 14-14, paragraphs 1–7 (Aug. 4, 2014) — best efforts under § 43A.19 toward a seven percent goal; a recruitment and hiring model within 120 days with required training and benchmarks; agency plans with performance targets; the 700-hour program; accessible hiring tools; quarterly reports to the governor and posted statistics. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/14-14.pdf [^62]: Executive Order 19-15, paragraphs 10–12 and closing (April 1, 2019) — consistency with §§ 43A.19 and 43A.191; no involuntary disclosure of disability status; no right or benefit enforceable against the state; Executive Order 14-14 rescinded; expiry under Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 4.035; signed April 1, 2019. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/19-15.pdf [^63]: Executive Order 19-15, preamble (April 1, 2019) — diversity, inclusion and equity as core values to achieve One Minnesota; agencies as a model employer of people with disabilities; the share of agency employees self-identified as having a disability at 4 percent in 2013 and more than 7 percent in 2018. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/execorders/19-15.pdf [^64]: Laws of Minnesota 2023, ch. 62, art. 8, state employees with disabilities — amendments to § 43A.01 on merit and nondiscrimination, § 43A.19 adding a statewide ADA and disability employment director, § 43A.191 on disability plans and public reports, and §§ 43A.21 on training, including the chief inclusion officer in subdivision 1. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/62/ [^65]: Minn. Stat. § 43A.19 (2025), statewide affirmative action program — the commissioner's program of objectives, goals, procedures and timetables; goals for each federal EEO occupational category; subd. 1(e), a statewide ADA and disability employment director designated by the commissioner who administers the 700-hour on-the-job demonstration experience. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/43A.19 [^66]: Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, Minnesota Agencies database, One Minnesota Council, membership — originally commissioners of cabinet agencies chosen by the governor, with public participation; under the 2023 order the governor or a designee, two vice-chairs, the deputy chief of staff for public engagement and up to eleven agency appointees. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/agencies/detail?AgencyID=2349 [^67]: Minn. Stat. § 15.0593 (2025), second part — a council created by executive order expires two years after the order unless otherwise specified consistent with § 4.035, subd. 3; its name begins with Governor's Task Force on, Council on or Committee on; no board, commission or authority except as the section provides; history 1977 c 305 s 5. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/15.0593 [^68]: Minnesota Management and Budget, Office of Inclusion, 2024 Annual Report, progress in 2024 — relaunch of both councils with two governor's offices; the inaugural annual report on the long-range plan; added capacity; a redesigned agency equity change plan template; a progress dashboard; twice-yearly meetings with cabinet agencies. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2026/other/261274.pdf [^70]: Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, Minnesota Agencies database, Governor's Community Council on Inclusion and Equity, membership — under the 2021 order the Chief Inclusion Officer and up to fourteen appointees; under the 2023 order two co-chairs, a vice chair and up to twelve appointees, staffed by the Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/Agencies/detail?AgencyID=2446 [^71]: Minn. Stat. § 43A.21, subd. 2–3 (2025), training programs — binding training policy for executive-branch agencies, including training on Title II of the ADA, the affirmative action policy, equal opportunity and digital accessibility; required training for all managers and supervisors on inclusive work environments, disability awareness, cultural competence and equity and diversity. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/43A.21 [^72]: Minnesota Management and Budget, Office of Inclusion, 2024 Annual Report, awareness and education — three quarterly inclusion partners meetings in 2024 with more than 100 participants; a landscape analysis of agency training; a new introductory training on bias launched in fall 2024; presentations across state agencies. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2026/other/261274.pdf [^73]: Minnesota Management and Budget, Office of Inclusion, 2024 Annual Report, diverse representation — revision of five enterprise policies including the respectful workplace and harassment and discrimination policies; analysis of retention and exit data; disaggregated employee data against the One Minnesota Plan's goals for inclusion and retention; compensation analyses. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2026/other/261274.pdf [^74]: Minnesota Management and Budget, Office of Inclusion, 2024 Annual Report, inclusive decision-making — liaison input into leadership competencies; an enterprise human resources and labor relations review group launched in December 2024; employee representation in policy feedback; work with human-resources partners, employee insurance and conflict-management design. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2026/other/261274.pdf [^75]: Minnesota Management and Budget, Office of Inclusion, 2024 Annual Report, letter from the Chief Inclusion Officer — the office's four aims of inclusive decision-making, awareness and education, inclusive policies and practices, and diverse representation, including a commitment to examine demographic data on employees' opportunities and experiences. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2026/other/261274.pdf [^76]: Research note for this portal (Oct. 29, 2026): the state website pages for the One Minnesota Plan at the budget agency and at the Governor's Office of Equity, Opportunity, and Accessibility returned a bot-manager challenge to the project's fetcher and were not read; the challenge was not bypassed. https://mn.gov/oeoa/resources/one-minnesota-plan [^77]: Building Blocks, *One Minnesota Plan 2023–2027*, posted with the Metropolitan Council's meeting materials of March 29, 2023 — the plan's mission, vision, six priority areas including Equity and Inclusion and Fiscal Accountability, Customer Experience, and Measurable Results, the groups for whom it seeks to end discrimination and disparities, and its guiding principles. https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Metropolitan-Council/2023/03-29-23/One-Minnesota-Plan-Building-Blocks.aspx [^78]: Minnesota Department of Human Rights, letter on H.F. 2705, the House judiciary and public safety omnibus bill, to Representative Lyndon Carlson as committee chair (April 10, 2019), posted with House committee documents — describes the governor's and lieutenant governor's Budget for One Minnesota and its funding of regional offices in Bemidji, Duluth and Worthington. https://www.house.mn.gov/comm/docs/84edb81b-385d-4c1e-a015-97cfc1b24a3a.pdf [^79]: Minn. Stat. § 43A.191 (2025), agency affirmative action programs — subd. 1, a full-time officer in agencies of 1,000 or more employees; subd. 2, agency plans needing the commissioner's approval; subd. 3, annual audits, the biennial report, justification of nonaffirmative action hires and the data clause; history from 1Sp1985 c 13 s 172 through 2023 c 62. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/43A.191 [^80]: Building Blocks, One Minnesota Plan 2023–2027 (Metropolitan Council meeting materials, March 29, 2023), mission and vision — to improve the lives of all Minnesotans through policies that achieve results; the best state for children of every race, ethnicity, religion, economic status, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability and zip code. https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Metropolitan-Council/2023/03-29-23/One-Minnesota-Plan-Building-Blocks.aspx [^81]: Building Blocks, One Minnesota Plan 2023–2027 (Metropolitan Council meeting materials, March 29, 2023), priorities — six priority areas from children and families to fiscal accountability, customer experience and measurable results, and the statement that in all its work the state will seek to end discrimination and eliminate disparities for listed groups. https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Metropolitan-Council/2023/03-29-23/One-Minnesota-Plan-Building-Blocks.aspx [^82]: Building Blocks, One Minnesota Plan 2023–2027 (Metropolitan Council meeting materials, March 29, 2023), guiding principles — servant leadership, respect, doing the right thing, asking whether actions reinforce or remove structural inequity, the common good, accessibility and transparency, voices of affected communities, and bridging lines of difference. https://metrocouncil.org/Council-Meetings/Committees/Metropolitan-Council/2023/03-29-23/One-Minnesota-Plan-Building-Blocks.aspx [^83]: Minnesota Department of Human Rights, *Opportunity for All in Minnesota — MDHR Transformational Budget, A Path to One Minnesota*, House committee document on the governor's fiscal 2020–2021 proposal — regional offices, civic engagement grants and staffing, funded at $2,025,000 in fiscal 2020 and $2,175,000 in fiscal 2021 as proposed. https://www.house.mn.gov/comm/docs/5202c179-c9b2-47c8-949c-a9a99dbf501d.pdf [^84]: Laws of Minnesota 2023, ch. 62 (H.F. 1830), state government and elections omnibus act — closing lines: presented to the governor May 23, 2023, and signed by the governor May 24, 2023, 9:26 a.m.; article 1 carries the state government appropriations, including those to the governor's office and the budget agency. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/62/ [^85]: Laws of Minnesota 2023, ch. 62, art. 1, sec. 13, Minnesota Management and Budget appropriation — paragraph (d), $2,500,000 each year, onetime and available until June 30, 2027, for interagency data-collection standards on race, ethnicity, gender identity and disability status; paragraph (e), $102,000 and $60,000 for a report and inclusion-related training. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/62/ [^86]: Laws of Minnesota 2023, ch. 62 (H.F. 1830), art. 8, sec. 16, presented May 23 and signed May 24, 2023 — rewriting § 43A.191: a new subdivision 2a on disability recruitment, hiring and advancement, and in subdivision 3(a) a new sentence requiring the commissioner to report audit findings to the governor after two consecutive years of noncompliance. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/2023/0/62/ [^87]: Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, "Legislative Party Control Chart, 1901-present" — party control of the House, Senate and governorship by session, including 1981–82, 1983–84, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2019–20, 2023–24 and 2025–26. https://www.lrl.mn.gov/histleg/caucus_table [^88]: Laws of Minnesota 1985, First Special Session, ch. 13 (H.F. 16), approved June 27, 1985 — omnibus act on the organization and operation of state government; sec. 172 enacts § 43A.191: affirmative action officers, agency plans, an annual audit by the director of equal employment opportunity, an annual report, and a proposal on noncompliance; sec. 173, transition. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1985/1/Session+Law/Chapter/13/pdf/ [^89]: Minn. Stat. § 4.035, subd. 1–2 (2025), executive orders — applicability to every written order of the governor denominated an executive order; uniform format and consecutive numbering; orders creating agencies to be consistent with § 15.0593; the effective date of orders after publication and filing. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/4.035 [^90]: MPR News, "Klobuchar is DFL nominee for governor, Demuth wins GOP race over two rivals" (Aug. 11, 2026) — Klobuchar and Demuth nominated for the November general election. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/08/11/amy-klobuchar-kendall-qualls-lisa-demuth-mike-lindell-seek-nods-in-minnesota-governors-race [^92]: Executive Order 14173 of January 21, 2025, *Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity*, 90 Fed. Reg. 8633 (Jan. 31, 2025), govinfo PDF — § 3(b)(i) revokes Executive Order 11246 and lets federal contractors follow "the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025", the prior regulatory scheme for 90 days. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-31/pdf/2025-02097.pdf [^93]: Executive Order 14173 (Jan. 21, 2025), §§ 1–2, purpose and policy, 90 Fed. Reg. 8633 — federal civil-rights laws as the bedrock of equal opportunity; the order to all executive departments and agencies to terminate discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders and requirements. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-31/pdf/2025-02097.pdf [^95]: Federal Audit Clearinghouse, single audit, State of Minnesota, audit year 2025 (report 2025-06-GSAFAC-0000408110) — $20,815,212,884 in federal expenditures; auditor flags material noncompliance, material weakness, significant deficiency; certified Mar. 31, 2026. https://app.fac.gov/dissemination/summary/2025-06-GSAFAC-0000408110 [^96]: Complaint, *United States v. State of Minnesota*, No. 0:26-cv-00273 (D. Minn. filed Jan. 14, 2026) — Title VII pattern-or-practice claims on the basis of race and sex; ¶ 29 quoting § 43A.02, subd. 33; ¶ 5 on Johnson v. Transportation Agency; prayer for relief. https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1423361/dl [^97]: Complaint, *United States v. State of Minnesota*, No. 0:26-cv-00273, Counts 1 and 2 (¶¶ 56–72) and prayer — pattern or practice under Title VII §§ 703(a)(1) and 703(a)(2); the zero-sum allegation; the justification and approval requirement; declaratory and injunctive relief and relief for affected employees. https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1423361/dl [^98]: Complaint, *United States v. State of Minnesota*, No. 0:26-cv-00273, ¶¶ 45–55 and Exhibit B — Department of Human Services Hiring Justification policy 4100.250 (initial date June 17, issue date July 1, effective Aug. 12, 2025; digital signature dated 2025.06.23); the State's position as the complaint states it (¶ 53); ¶ 54; ¶ 55. https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1423361/dl [^99]: Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, *United States v. State of Minnesota*, 0:26-cv-00273 (D. Minn.), docket — three-judge panel; State's motion for a more definite statement denied May 26, 2026; answer to the original complaint June 16; fact discovery to March 1, 2027; stipulation order Sept. 10; amended complaint filed Sept. 11 (entry 55). https://clearinghouse.net/case/47712/