---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law enforcement policies required on best practices for eyewitness identifications."
description: "Law enforcement policies required on best practices for eyewitness identifications."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HF 627"
citation: "Minnesota HF 627 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Law Enforcement", "Public Safety Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pinto"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2020-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87809bad-4ae3-4e41-bca9-48a1688b8f30"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0627&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "97ee0c909d20ddce2758a932bad8d922b9aea5eddaeec1d294375c330bf3d40b"
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 627 (2019-2020) — Law enforcement policies required on best practices for eyewitness identifications.

## 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=HF627&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF627&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **133–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pinto — primary (person)
- Edelson — cosponsor (person)
- Ingebrigtsen — cosponsor (person)
- Mariani — cosponsor (person)
- Moller — cosponsor (person)
- O'Neill — cosponsor (person)
- Robbins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Finance and Policy Division `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Author added Mariani
- **2019-02-25** Author added Robbins
- **2019-03-04** Authors added O'Neill and Edelson
- **2020-02-24** Author added Moller
- **2020-05-04** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2020-05-04** Joint rule 2.03, Deadlines, re-referred to Rules and Legislative Administration
- **2020-05-04** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2020-05-04** Joint rule 2.03 waived
- **2020-05-04** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2020-05-11** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, May 12, 2020
- **2020-05-12** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2020-05-12** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2020-05-15** Presented to Governor 05/15/2020 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-16** Governor approval 05/16/2020 `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-16** Secretary of State, Filed 05/16/2020
- **2020-05-12** Received from House `introduction`
- **2020-05-12** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2020-05-12** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF1256, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-13** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF1256
- **2020-05-13** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2020-05-14** Special Order: Rule 45 amendment stricken
- **2020-05-14** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-05-15** Presentment date 05/15/2020
- **2020-05-16** Governor's action Approval 05/16/2020 `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-16** Secretary of State Chapter 90 05/16/2020
- **2020-08-01** Effective date 08/01/20

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87809bad-4ae3-4e41-bca9-48a1688b8f30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).