Bill Summary

• Reduces the licensing fee for manufactured home installers from $300 to $180 for a three-year period under Minnesota Statutes section 326B.815, subdivision 1.

• Maintains the three-year license period for manufactured home installers while other residential contractors, remodelers, and roofers hold two-year licenses.

• Manufactured home installers remain exempt from continuing education requirements under sections 326B.0981, 326B.099, and 326B.821, instead following rules adopted under section 327B.10.

• Local government units are prohibited from placing surcharges on manufactured home installer license fees or charging separate fees to installers.

• Manufactured home installers are exempt from the contractor recovery fund requirement in section 326B.89.