---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health licensing title protection and grounds for disciplinary action clarification and technical changes"
description: "Health licensing title protection and grounds for disciplinary action clarification and technical changes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SF 482"
citation: "Minnesota SF 482 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health and Health Department", "Occupations and Professions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-05-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b417671-a3f4-49be-8b92-da0a0ed14420"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0482&ssn=0&y=2017"
source_hash: "533a1c44c73d83b56370c15a4bb5bb5946fd5ec9fdb4590f1c6d0f5be967f24e"
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 SF 482 (2017-2018) — Health licensing title protection and grounds for disciplinary action clarification and technical changes

## 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=SF482&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=SF482&version=2&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)
3. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF482&version=0&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)

## Votes

- S.F. NO. 482 — **127–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nelson — primary (person)
- Albright — cosponsor (person)
- Clausen — cosponsor (person)
- Kiel — cosponsor (person)
- Liebling — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy, E. — cosponsor (person)
- Peterson — cosponsor (person)
- Schomacker — cosponsor (person)
- Wiklund — cosponsor (person)
- Zerwas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-30** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-22** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-04** Special Order: Amended
- **2017-05-04** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2017-05-08** Author added Clausen
- **2017-05-15** Returned from House
- **2017-05-15** Presentment date 05/15/17
- **2017-05-18** Governor's action Approval 05/17/17 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-08** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2017-05-08** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF643
- **2017-05-09** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2017-05-09** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-09** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, May 11, 2017
- **2017-05-11** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2017-05-11** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2017-05-15** Presented to Governor 05/15/17 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-17** Governor approval 5/17/2017 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-17** Secretary of State, Filed 5/17/2017

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b417671-a3f4-49be-8b92-da0a0ed14420`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).