New laws for Minnesota 2023

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The following are select new laws passed during the 2022 legislative session — and one from 2021 — that take effect Jan. 1, 2023. The asterisk following the bill number denotes language that became law.

Summaries of all laws passed by the 2022 Legislature are available online from nonpartisan House Public Information Services at www.house.mn/newlaws/#/search/2022.

• Health plans now have to cover a comprehensive postnatal visit with a health care provider within three weeks from delivery, plus any other postnatal visits recommended by a health care provider between three and 11 weeks from delivery and a comprehensive postnatal visit 12 weeks from delivery.

• Anyone buying a used vehicle can now more easily find out if the vehicle has been significantly damaged or “totaled” thanks to the updated state salvage title regulations.

• Business registration renewal deadlines are now the anniversary of the initial registration instead of 120 days after the end of the fiscal year.

• Insurers have to provide more transparency in annuity sales, meaning they have to have a reasonable basis for an annuity recommendation and have to document it, must disclose their licensing and how they’re compensated for the sale, any conflicts of interest.