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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Law enforcement policies required on best practices for eyewitness identifications."
+description: "Law enforcement policies required on best practices for eyewitness identifications."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
+legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "HF 627"
+citation: "Minnesota HF 627 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Law Enforcement", "Public Safety Department"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pinto"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-31"
+last_action: "2020-08-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87809bad-4ae3-4e41-bca9-48a1688b8f30"
+source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0627&ssn=0&y=2019"
+source_hash: "97ee0c909d20ddce2758a932bad8d922b9aea5eddaeec1d294375c330bf3d40b"
+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 627 (2019-2020) — Law enforcement policies required on best practices for eyewitness identifications.
+
+## 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=HF627&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
+2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF627&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **133–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pinto — primary (person)
+- Edelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ingebrigtsen — cosponsor (person)
+- Mariani — cosponsor (person)
+- Moller — cosponsor (person)
+- O'Neill — cosponsor (person)
+- Robbins — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-31** Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Finance and Policy Division `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-18** Author added Mariani
+- **2019-02-25** Author added Robbins
+- **2019-03-04** Authors added O'Neill and Edelson
+- **2020-02-24** Author added Moller
+- **2020-05-04** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
+- **2020-05-04** Joint rule 2.03, Deadlines, re-referred to Rules and Legislative Administration
+- **2020-05-04** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
+- **2020-05-04** Joint rule 2.03 waived
+- **2020-05-04** Second reading `reading-2`
+- **2020-05-11** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, May 12, 2020
+- **2020-05-12** Third reading `reading-3`
+- **2020-05-12** Bill was passed `passage`
+- **2020-05-15** Presented to Governor 05/15/2020 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-05-16** Governor approval 05/16/2020 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-05-16** Secretary of State, Filed 05/16/2020
+- **2020-05-12** Received from House `introduction`
+- **2020-05-12** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
+- **2020-05-12** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF1256, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
+- **2020-05-13** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF1256
+- **2020-05-13** Second reading `reading-2`
+- **2020-05-14** Special Order: Rule 45 amendment stricken
+- **2020-05-14** Third reading Passed `passage`
+- **2020-05-15** Presentment date 05/15/2020
+- **2020-05-16** Governor's action Approval 05/16/2020 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-05-16** Secretary of State Chapter 90 05/16/2020
+- **2020-08-01** Effective date 08/01/20
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87809bad-4ae3-4e41-bca9-48a1688b8f30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).
+