---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health-related professions temporary license suspensions and background checks modified."
description: "Health-related professions temporary license suspensions and background checks modified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HF 637"
citation: "Minnesota HF 637 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health and Health Department", "Licenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morrison"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cbfba29-2024-43c5-85b5-1f51d106e021"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0637&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "b224582de318c27ba7fabcef27a7edc7788570744b1be52eb77d220ee930b621"
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 637 (2019-2020) — Health-related professions temporary license suspensions and background checks 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=HF637&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
2. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF637&version=2&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
3. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF637&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **127–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Morrison — primary (person)
- Albright — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Introduction and first reading, referred to Health and Human Services Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Division `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-21** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-21** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-04** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, April 08, 2019
- **2019-04-08** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2019-04-08** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2019-05-19** Returned from Senate
- **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
- **2019-05-23** Effective date 05/23/19
- **2019-04-10** Received from House `introduction`
- **2019-04-10** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2019-04-10** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF583, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF583
- **2019-04-11** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-19** Special Order: Rule 45 amendment stricken
- **2019-05-19** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **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 49 05/22/2019
- **2019-05-23** Effective date 05/23/19

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1cbfba29-2024-43c5-85b5-1f51d106e021`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).