Minnesota Natural Health Legal Reform Project

MNHLRP's Most Current Legislative Activity - 2025
HF 2435, authored by Rep Mike Freiberg, we terminate the state's parental exemption for measles, mumps and rubella vaccines. We are relieved that this bad bill is dead for the 2025 session.
 Rep. Mike Freiberg, (D, Golden Valley) known for his dislike of parental vaccine exemptions, took a more narrow aim at parental vaccines exemptions in the 2025 sessions by introducing a bill to abolish the "conscieentiously held" parental exemption, but only for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines. Essenatially, it would be an attempt to strong-arm parents into giving their children the MMR vaccines, since it is the MMR vaccine that typically gives a child all three vaccines in one shot.
Freiberg's bill,HF 3239 was introduced on April 30th, 2025, much too late to be given a hearing and passed out of a committee through the normal committee eharing process.  We freedom activists feared that Freiberg and his crew might try to sneak thier bill onto an existing bill such as the huge health omnibus bill, thus escaping notice until it is too late to stop.
But we sounded the alert through action alerts calling for the freedom community to call and e-mail their legislators warning about this Freiberg sneak attack on the parental conscientious exemption. Our friends, particularly on the republican side in the senate, emained on the alert for any sneak attack on the senate side where the companion bill, SF 3439 had been introduced b y Senator Liz Boldon (D, Rochester). But, as the 2025 session winds down to final days, it appears that no sneak attempt has been made to attach the Freiberg or Boldon bills to either of the omnibus. So, for now, we are safe from Freiberg's latest attack on the parental examptions.
  1. In year 2025 we opposed a bill, SF 1131 by Senator John Hoffman to mandate the licensure of all massage therapists and Asian bodyworkers in the state. Fortunately, this bad bills did not get a hearing in the Senate Health Committee and so is dead for this 2025 session becasue of its failure to meet a committee deadline. pass through necesssary hurdles and did not become law. 

  3. Over past decades, we have opposed massage therapy licensure and/or registration because the practice of massage therapy is very safe and gentle and does not require a higher degree of regulation than what already exists. Massage therapy is already adequately regulated under the statute known as Chapter 146A, Minnesota's Safe Harbor Exemption Law. That statute, enacted in year 2000, carves out a freedom to practice for the unlicensed health care practitioners in Minnesota as long as they stay within certain limits (e.g. do not engage in prescribing drugs or practicing dentistry, etc) and provide a disclosure form to their clients. In our view, the Hoffman massage therapy licensure bill will create winners and losers, strengthen the position of massage therapy schools because of its educational requirements, and force some massage therapists out of the field. We view massage therapy licensure as special interest legislation and oppose it becausee of its infringement on basic freedoms to practice; it is not in the public interest.