---
type: "Bill"
title: "Minnesota Licensing and Registration System (MNLARS) and Driver and Vehicle Services funding provided, report required, and money appropriated."
description: "Minnesota Licensing and Registration System (MNLARS) and Driver and Vehicle Services funding provided, report required, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HF 861"
citation: "Minnesota HF 861 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drivers' Licenses", "Training", "and ID Cards", "State Agencies and Departments", "Transportation and Transportation Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hansen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 38
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b10429cf-04f5-4eca-97f8-683664a1dcf6"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0861&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "0056bb0586657d458ab2b82d5430fd08296febae6f362cd099072edfb9e42418"
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 861 (2019-2020) — Minnesota Licensing and Registration System (MNLARS) and Driver and Vehicle Services funding provided, report required, and money appropriated.

## Version chain

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

1. **1st Division Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF861&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0&type=div)
2. **1st Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF861&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
3. **2nd Division Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF861&version=2&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0&type=div)
4. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF861&version=2&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
5. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF861&version=3&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
6. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF861&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Repassage, as amended by the Senate — **71–50** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **50–73** (fail) · lower
- Hansen motion - Motion to Concur — **71–51** (pass) · lower
- Torkelson motion - Refuse to Concur — **51–70** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **50–73** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **50–73** (fail) · lower
- Passage, as amended — **89–33** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **49–74** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **122–1** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **52–70** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hansen — primary (person)
- Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
- Lillie — cosponsor (person)
- Newman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Introduction and first reading, referred to Ways and Means `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Referred by Chair to Transportation Finance and Policy Division `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Author added Lillie
- **2019-02-19** Division action, to adopt as amended and return to Ways and Means
- **2019-02-20** Referred by Chair to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Division `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Author added Bernardy
- **2019-02-21** Division action, to adopt as amended and return to Ways and Means
- **2019-02-25** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-25** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-27** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-28** Point of order raised, ruled well taken multiple points of order
- **2019-02-28** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2019-02-28** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Motion to suspend rules
- **2019-03-04** Motion prevailed
- **2019-03-04** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2019-03-04** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2019-03-04** Motion to refuse to concur
- **2019-03-04** Motion did not prevail
- **2019-03-04** Motion to concur with Senate amendments question recurred
- **2019-03-04** Motion prevailed
- **2019-03-04** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2019-03-06** Effective date 03/06/19
- **2019-03-04** Received from House `introduction`
- **2019-03-04** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2019-03-04** Laid on table
- **2019-03-04** Taken from table
- **2019-03-04** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF1092, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF1092
- **2019-03-04** Urgency declared rules suspended
- **2019-03-04** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-04** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-05** Presentment date 03/05/2019
- **2019-03-05** Governor's action Approval 03/05/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-07** Secretary of State Chapter 1 03/05/2019
- **2019-03-06** Effective date 03/06/19

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b10429cf-04f5-4eca-97f8-683664a1dcf6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).