In one paragraph
Not law. Minnesota's HF 4131 would have added Minn. Stat. 325D.141 prohibiting surveillance-based price discrimination and wage discrimination, meaning use of an automated decision system to inform individualized prices or wages from surveillance data about a consumer or worker. Listed cost, group-discount and insurer risk exceptions would apply, and wage-setters would have to disclose the data and how the system uses it. The text has no penalties or enforcer. Introduced March 9, 2026; effective August 1, 2026 if enacted.
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What it means for business
None: the bill died, so it creates no obligations for Minnesota businesses that set prices or wages with automated systems.
Key provisions
- Would have added Minn. Stat. 325D.141; automated decision system includes systems derived from machine learning, statistics, data processing or artificial-intelligence techniques
- Surveillance data: data obtained through observation, inference or surveillance of a consumer or worker about personal characteristics, behaviors or biometrics
- A person could not use such a system to inform individualized prices based on surveillance data, except for cost differences, discounts offered to all on equal terms, or insurers using only risk-relevant data
- A person could not use such a system to inform individualized wages based on surveillance data, unless wages rest solely on task-related data or cost differences and the data and system use are disclosed in plain language before hiring
- Anyone using such a system for wages or prices must publish procedures to ensure data accuracy, let people correct or challenge data, and let them request how the data is used
- The text contains no penalty, private right of action or enforcing agency; no companion bill
- Introduced March 9, 2026 and referred to Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy; effective August 1, 2026 if enacted
Latest legislative action
Mar 25, 2026. Author added Pursell; no further action before the 2025-2026 Legislature adjourned
Sponsors (showing 5 of 12)
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Greenman | Primary |
| Huot | Primary |
| Murphy, M. | Primary |
| Nelson, M. | Primary |
| Sencer-Mura | Primary |
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