---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health plan policy and contract coverages regulated, state law conformed to federal requirements, health plan market rules established, and essential community providers designation modified."
description: "Health plan policy and contract coverages regulated, state law conformed to federal requirements, health plan market rules established, and essential community providers designation modified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "HF 779"
citation: "Minnesota HF 779 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commerce Department", "Health and Health Department", "Insurance-Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2013-02-21"
last_action: "2013-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8262e23-c4a9-4df8-92ba-0a5eeb0c27a5"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0779&ssn=0&y=2013"
source_hash: "5665165342237a242f0799d2a3100bebf149ede875f5967e4fd3436d625b77ba"
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 779 (2013-2014) — Health plan policy and contract coverages regulated, state law conformed to federal requirements, health plan market rules established, and essential community providers designation modified.

## 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=HF779&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=HF779&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=HF779&version=2&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
4. **2nd Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF779&version=2&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0&type=ue)
5. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF779&version=3&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
6. **4th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF779&version=4&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
7. **5th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF779&version=5&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
8. **6th Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF779&version=6&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)
9. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF779&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2013&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Atkins — primary (person)
- Abeler — cosponsor (person)
- Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
- Huntley — cosponsor (person)
- Lourey — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-21** Introduction and first reading, referred to Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2013-03-11** Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Health and Human Services Policy `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-14** Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Health and Human Services Finance `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-14** Author added Abeler
- **2013-03-21** Author added Moran
- **2013-04-02** Committee report, to pass as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-15** Committee report, to pass as amended
- **2013-04-15** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-18** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, April 22, 2013
- **2013-04-19** Author added Bernardy
- **2013-04-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-22** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2013-04-22** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2013-05-16** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2013-05-16** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2013-05-16** Motion prevailed
- **2013-05-16** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2013-05-16** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2013-05-21** Presented to Governor 05/21/13 `executive-receipt`
- **2013-04-23** Received from House `introduction`
- **2013-04-23** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2013-04-23** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-07** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2013-05-07** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2013-05-15** Special Order: Amended
- **2013-05-15** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2013-05-16** House concurred and repassed bill
- **2013-05-21** Presentment date 05/21/13
- **2013-05-24** Governor's action Approval 05/24/13 `executive-signature`
- **2013-05-24** Secretary of State Chapter 84 05/24/13

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8262e23-c4a9-4df8-92ba-0a5eeb0c27a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).