---
type: "Bill"
title: "St. Louis County Civil Service Commission amended, technical changes made, and obsolete language removed."
description: "St. Louis County Civil Service Commission amended, technical changes made, and obsolete language removed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HF 608"
citation: "Minnesota HF 608 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties-Specific", "Governmental Operations-Local"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sandstede"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16436365-c2ab-4349-ac9b-2e7a870f0711"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0608&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "73653d04342a651c5d09423364e49383e95144f46cec8e13fc92d767891f1fcb"
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 608 (2019-2020) — St. Louis County Civil Service Commission amended, technical changes made, and obsolete language removed.

## 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=HF608&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF608&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)

## Votes

- McDonald motion - Re-Referral — **54–74** (fail) · lower
- Passage — **128–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sandstede — primary (person)
- Ecklund — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Olson — cosponsor (person)
- Schultz — cosponsor (person)
- Tomassoni — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** Introduction and first reading, referred to Government Operations `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-21** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-27** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, February 28, 2019
- **2019-03-07** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 7, 2019
- **2019-03-07** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Motion to re-refer Government Operations
- **2019-03-07** Motion did not prevail
- **2019-03-07** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2019-04-08** Returned from Senate
- **2019-04-12** Presented to Governor 04/12/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-12** Governor approval 04/12/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-12** Secretary of State, Filed 04/12/19
- **2019-03-11** Received from House `introduction`
- **2019-03-11** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2019-03-11** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF754, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF754
- **2019-03-13** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-08** Special Order: Rule 45 amendment stricken
- **2019-04-08** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-12** Presentment date 04/12/2019
- **2019-04-12** Governor's action Approval 04/12/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-23** Secretary of State Chapter 9 04/12/2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16436365-c2ab-4349-ac9b-2e7a870f0711`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).