---
type: "Bill"
title: "COVID-19 response fund established, prescription refill and property tax appeals timelines modified, unemployment insurance provided, and money appropriated."
description: "COVID-19 response fund established, prescription refill and property tax appeals timelines modified, unemployment insurance provided, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HF 4531"
citation: "Minnesota HF 4531 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Disasters", "Drugs and Medicine", "Governmental Operations-State", "Taxation-Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Winkler"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-03-26"
last_action: "2020-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b0d308b-38df-4404-aaa4-afce85015910"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF4531&ssn=0&y=2020"
source_hash: "457efb332d002eb413d55c846ce05d343a87460b9fb535aeb400975a93ff0f59"
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 4531 (2019-2020) — COVID-19 response fund established, prescription refill and property tax appeals timelines modified, unemployment insurance provided, and money appropriated.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF4531&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2020&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **99–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Winkler — primary (person)
- Daudt — cosponsor (person)
- Gazelka — cosponsor (person)
- Hortman — cosponsor (person)
- Lillie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-26** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2020-03-26** Rules suspended, urgency declared
- **2020-03-26** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-26** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2020-03-26** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2020-03-28** Presented to Governor 03/28/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-28** Governor approval 03/28/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-28** Secretary of State, Filed 03/28/20
- **2020-04-07** Returned from Senate
- **2020-04-07** Author added Lillie
- **2020-03-26** Received from House `introduction`
- **2020-03-26** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2020-03-26** Urgency declared rules suspended
- **2020-03-26** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-26** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-03-28** Presentment date 03/28/2020
- **2020-03-28** Governor's action Approval 03/28/2020 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-07** Secretary of State Chapter 71 03/28/2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b0d308b-38df-4404-aaa4-afce85015910`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).