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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medical faculty license made permanent, and money appropriated."
+description: "Medical faculty license made permanent, and money appropriated."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
+legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
+session: "2017-2018"
+identifier: "HF 959"
+citation: "Minnesota HF 959 (2017-2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Health and Health Department", "Licenses"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dean, M."]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-02-09"
+last_action: "2017-05-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32ec9449-b3c4-4711-95bf-ef35008134c8"
+source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0959&ssn=0&y=2017"
+source_hash: "4c89799111dce32f22aa32579fb9d0bf96c41514c874bff470e00fc457a9ff26"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mn"]
+---
+
+# Minnesota HF 959 (2017-2018) — Medical faculty license made permanent, and money appropriated.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **1st Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF959&version=1&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)
+2. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF959&version=2&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)
+3. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF959&version=3&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)
+4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF959&version=0&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)
+
+## Votes
+
+- H.F. NO. 959 — **130–0** (pass) · lower
+- H.F. NO. 959 — **129–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dean, M. — primary (person)
+- Liebling — cosponsor (person)
+- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
+- Zerwas — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-09** Introduction and first reading, referred to Health and Human Services Reform `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-27** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-27** Second reading `reading-2`
+- **2017-05-04** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, May 04, 2017
+- **2017-05-04** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2017-05-04** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
+- **2017-05-04** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
+- **2017-05-18** House rule 1.15 (c), message requesting concurrence received
+- **2017-05-19** Returned from Senate with amendment
+- **2017-05-19** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
+- **2017-05-19** Motion prevailed
+- **2017-05-19** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
+- **2017-05-19** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
+- **2017-05-20** Presented to Governor 05/20/17 `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-05-23** Governor approval 05/23/17 `executive-signature`
+- **2017-05-23** Secretary of State, Filed 05/23/17
+- **2017-05-08** Received from House `introduction`
+- **2017-05-08** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
+- **2017-05-08** Referred to Rules and Administrationfor comparison with SF815, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-09** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF815
+- **2017-05-09** Second reading `reading-2`
+- **2017-05-17** Special Order
+- **2017-05-17** Third reading Passed `passage`
+- **2017-05-19** House concurred and repassed bill
+- **2017-05-20** Presentment date 05/20/17
+- **2017-05-23** Governor's action Approval 05/23/17 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32ec9449-b3c4-4711-95bf-ef35008134c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).
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