---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical faculty license made permanent, and money appropriated."
description: "Medical faculty license made permanent, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HF 959"
citation: "Minnesota HF 959 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health and Health Department", "Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dean, M."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32ec9449-b3c4-4711-95bf-ef35008134c8"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0959&ssn=0&y=2017"
source_hash: "4c89799111dce32f22aa32579fb9d0bf96c41514c874bff470e00fc457a9ff26"
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 959 (2017-2018) — Medical faculty license made permanent, and money appropriated.

## 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=HF959&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=HF959&version=2&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)
3. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF959&version=3&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)
4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF959&version=0&session=ls90&session_year=2017&session_number=0)

## Votes

- H.F. NO. 959 — **130–0** (pass) · lower
- H.F. NO. 959 — **129–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dean, M. — primary (person)
- Liebling — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
- Zerwas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-09** Introduction and first reading, referred to Health and Human Services Reform `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-27** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-27** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-04** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, May 04, 2017
- **2017-05-04** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2017-05-04** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2017-05-04** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2017-05-18** House rule 1.15 (c), message requesting concurrence received
- **2017-05-19** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2017-05-19** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2017-05-19** Motion prevailed
- **2017-05-19** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2017-05-19** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2017-05-20** Presented to Governor 05/20/17 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-23** Governor approval 05/23/17 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-23** Secretary of State, Filed 05/23/17
- **2017-05-08** Received from House `introduction`
- **2017-05-08** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2017-05-08** Referred to Rules and Administrationfor comparison with SF815, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-09** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF815
- **2017-05-09** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-05-17** Special Order
- **2017-05-17** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2017-05-19** House concurred and repassed bill
- **2017-05-20** Presentment date 05/20/17
- **2017-05-23** Governor's action Approval 05/23/17 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32ec9449-b3c4-4711-95bf-ef35008134c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).