---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community emergency medical technician permitted to be a member of a basic life support ambulance service, and occupational title of emergency medical technicians modified."
description: "Community emergency medical technician permitted to be a member of a basic life support ambulance service, and occupational title of emergency medical technicians modified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HF 148"
citation: "Minnesota HF 148 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency and 911 Services", "Health and Health Department", "Occupations and Professions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Huot"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/564eafea-5320-48ab-ac1a-af6afbd9dc61"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0148&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "e3d2cbc241876683c97b0354886d5c7eefd2adc604d91c4d6a0e27dd01c3b4ad"
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 148 (2019-2020) — Community emergency medical technician permitted to be a member of a basic life support ambulance service, and occupational title of emergency medical technicians 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=HF148&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF148&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **CCR-HF0148** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF148&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0&type=ccr)
4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF148&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **129–0** (pass) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by Conference — **130–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Huot — primary (person)
- Backer — cosponsor (person)
- Cantrell — cosponsor (person)
- Nornes — cosponsor (person)
- Rosen — cosponsor (person)
- Zerwas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** Introduction and first reading, referred to Health and Human Services Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Author added Cantrell
- **2019-01-31** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, February 21st, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2019-02-25** Author added Nornes
- **2019-05-09** House rule 1.15 (c), message requesting concurrence received
- **2019-05-09** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2019-05-09** House refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2019-05-09** House conferees Huot, Freiberg, Backer
- **2019-05-14** Senate accedes, conference committee of 3 be appointed
- **2019-05-14** Senate conferees Rose, Draheim, and Bigham
- **2019-05-17** Conference committee report
- **2019-05-17** House adopted conference committee report
- **2019-05-17** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2019-05-17** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2019-05-18** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2019-05-22** Presented to Governor 05/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-22** Governor approval 05/22/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-22** Secretary of State, Filed 05/22/19
- **2019-08-01** Effective date 08/01/19
- **2019-02-25** Received from House `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-20** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-08** Special Order: Amended
- **2019-05-08** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-13** House not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2019-05-13** House conferees Huot; Freiberg; Backer
- **2019-05-13** Senate accedes, CC of 3 be appointed
- **2019-05-13** Senate conferees Rosen; Draheim; Bigham
- **2019-05-17** House adopted HCC report and repassed bill
- **2019-05-17** Conference committee report
- **2019-05-17** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2019-05-17** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2019-05-22** Presentment date 05/22/2019
- **2019-05-22** Governor's action Approval 05/22/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-22** Secretary of State Chapter 42 05/22/2019
- **2019-08-01** Effective date 08/01/19

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/564eafea-5320-48ab-ac1a-af6afbd9dc61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).