---
type: "Bill"
title: "Formaldehyde banned in children's products."
description: "Formaldehyde banned in children's products."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 458"
citation: "Minnesota HF 458 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children and Minors", "Hazardous Substances", "Health and Health Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Persell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 31
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2013-02-11"
last_action: "2013-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9923421f-d4f1-4d36-8830-135dbc53d094"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0458&ssn=0&y=2013"
source_hash: "7a9aac9e49155b51392b4f390fa06625812cdbc9ceb50a5c6f56566a747fcb35"
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 458 (2013-2014) — Formaldehyde banned in children's products.

## 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=HF458&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF458&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF458&version=2&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
4. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF458&version=3&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
5. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF458&version=4&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
6. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF458&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Persell — primary (person)
- Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
- Brynaert — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Dehn, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Franson — cosponsor (person)
- Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Hornstein — cosponsor (person)
- Hortman — cosponsor (person)
- Laine — cosponsor (person)
- Liebling — cosponsor (person)
- Lillie — cosponsor (person)
- Loeffler — cosponsor (person)
- Loon — cosponsor (person)
- Melin — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Paymar — cosponsor (person)
- Rest — cosponsor (person)
- Savick — cosponsor (person)
- Schoen — cosponsor (person)
- Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Wagenius — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-11** Introduction and first reading, referred to Health and Human Services Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2013-02-13** Authors added Bernardy, Clark, Laine and Paymar
- **2013-02-18** Author added Dehn, R.
- **2013-02-21** Author added Loeffler
- **2013-02-25** Authors added Liebling and Lillie
- **2013-02-28** Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Judiciary Finance and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-11** Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-21** Committee report, to pass as amended
- **2013-03-21** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-24** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Friday, April 26th, 2013
- **2013-04-25** Author added Schoen
- **2013-04-26** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2013-04-26** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2013-05-08** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2013-05-08** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2013-05-08** Motion prevailed
- **2013-05-08** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2013-05-08** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2013-05-09** Presented to Governor 05/09/13 `executive-receipt`
- **2013-04-29** Received from House `introduction`
- **2013-04-29** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2013-04-29** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF357, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-01** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF357
- **2013-05-01** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-05-06** Special Order: Amended
- **2013-05-06** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2013-05-08** House concurred and repassed bill
- **2013-05-09** Presentment date 05/09/13
- **2013-05-13** Governor's action Approval 05/13/13 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-15** Secretary of State Chapter 58 05/13/13
- **2013-05-14** Effective date Sec. 1-2 05/14/13; Sec. 3 08/01/13

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9923421f-d4f1-4d36-8830-135dbc53d094`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).