Jim Abeler

Sponsored bills

• SF1943: Pet shops prohibition from selling cats and dogs
• SF0476: Omnibus Human Services policy bill
• SF5287: Procedures modification to fill a school board vacancy (primary sponsor)
• SF5277: Definition of employee modification under the Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act and whistleblower protections to explicitly include incarcerated people
• SF5267: Process of firearm purchase by peace officers modification (primary sponsor)
• SF5266: Process establishment to vacate an order any time based on error or false information (primary sponsor)
• SR0083: A Senate resolution designating May 3 to 9, 2026, as Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week
• SF4367: Housing and redevelopment agencies utilizing certain long-term equity investment authority authorization and qualifying government investment types modifications
• SF5234: Pharmacy technicians to pharmacists ratio modifications
• SF4745: Creation of a centralized certified payroll reporting portal and database requirement for all state projects covered by prevailing wage requirements
• SF5235: Hospital surcharge temporary suspension provision, medical assistance program new base year for hospital rates establishment provision, and Minnesota Department of Health promulgated rules waivers authorization provision (primary sponsor)
• SF2689: Medicaid fraud provisions modification; attorney general certain subpoena and enforcement authority provision
• SF3825: Requirement that loaded firearms be stored in locations where persons prohibited from possessing firearms cannot access the firearms
• SF4508: Senior nutrition programs modification
• SF5179: Coercion of a pregnant minor female into seeking or obtaining an abortion prohibition, human trafficking of minors screening and reporting provision, certain information displayed requirement provision, and wrongful death resulting from an abortion additional action provision
• SF5114: Ortho-phthalate testing results of packaged food products reporting by food manufacturers to the commissioner of agriculture requirement provision (primary sponsor)
• SF5168: Baby brain builder tool kits funding appropriation
• SF4306: Rent and utility payments, fees, and charges in manufactured home parks standards provision, certain safety inspections requirement provision, and sale of manufactured home parks sale provision modifications (primary sponsor)
• SF5070: Nonemergency medical transportation providers requirement to operate vehicles equipped with a global position system and rear-facing camera
• SF3240: Certain health care facilities electronic monitoring authorization provision (primary sponsor)