---
type: "Bill"
title: "Minnesota FAIR plan employees or joint underwriting association employees elective eligibility for insurance coverage authorization"
description: "Minnesota FAIR plan employees or joint underwriting association employees elective eligibility for insurance coverage authorization"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2013-2014"
identifier: "SF 1689"
citation: "Minnesota SF 1689 (2013-2014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Government-Employees", "Insurance-Health", "Minnesota Management and Budget Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Metzen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-02-25"
last_action: "2014-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c60a6cf-da19-49d8-a36e-f52dc07515fb"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF1689&ssn=0&y=2014"
source_hash: "4f6145ca3db6b218096e6cc876ce4eb4687d5ad7c7858b521042a58ecc0f9da3"
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 1689 (2013-2014) — Minnesota FAIR plan employees or joint underwriting association employees elective eligibility for insurance coverage authorization

## 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=SF1689&version=1&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF1689&version=0&session=ls88&session_year=2014&session_number=0)

## Sponsors

- Metzen — primary (person)
- Atkins — cosponsor (person)
- Beard — cosponsor (person)
- Gazelka — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-25** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2014-02-25** Referred to Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-04** Comm report: To pass and re-referred to State and Local Government `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2014-03-04** Withdrawn and re-referred to Finance
- **2014-03-21** Withdrawn
- **2014-03-21** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-04-07** Special Order: Amended
- **2014-04-07** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2014-04-30** Returned from House
- **2014-04-29** Presentment date 04/29/14
- **2014-04-30** Governor's action Approval 04/30/14 `executive-signature`
- **2014-04-30** Secretary of State Chapter 184 04/30/14
- **2014-08-01** Effective date 08/01/14
- **2014-04-08** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2014-04-08** Senate file first reading, referred to Ways and Means
- **2014-04-23** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2014-04-23** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2014-04-25** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, April 29, 2014
- **2014-04-29** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2014-04-29** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2014-04-30** Presented to Governor 04/30/14 `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c60a6cf-da19-49d8-a36e-f52dc07515fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).