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2025 Law Summaries: A Guide to the New Laws Affecting Cities

The 2025 Law Summaries publication contains all laws affecting cities that were enacted during the 2025 legislative session.

The Legislature sent a combined 54 chapters of law to Gov. Tim Walz during the 2025 legislative session and special session. The League’s 2025 Law Summaries will help you understand how these new laws will affect cities.

The publication summarizes relevant new laws but is not intended to be comprehensive legal advice. The 2025 Law Summaries document also highlights bills relevant to cities that did not become law.

View the 2025 Law Summaries (pdf).

Variety of issues covered

This year’s new laws contain several items of interest to cities, including passage of a $700 million bonding bill, changes to data practices laws, elections procedures, employment law, Open Meeting Law, public safety duty disability, as well as many others.

The section on “Bills That Did Not Become Law” covers several bills that did not pass, including the highly contested zoning/land use preemption bills.

While the law summaries go in depth on what passed and didn’t, members can also refer to the 2025 Legislative Session Overview, which summarizes the most notable outcomes that impact cities.

View the 2025 Legislative Session Overview.

Questions?

If you have any questions about laws or legislation summarized in the 2025 Law Summaries, contact a member of the League’s Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) Department. Each law summary includes the initials of the best IGR staff member to contact for that law; refer to key for the staff initials on page 5 of the 2025 Law Summaries.

The League will also keep members informed of law changes with its “Focus on New Laws” articles, which will be released throughout the summer and shared via the Cities Bulletin e-newsletter.

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