---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health licensing technical changes; mental health professionals duty to warn and reciprocity expansion"
description: "Health licensing technical changes; mental health professionals duty to warn and reciprocity expansion"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "SF 955"
citation: "Minnesota SF 955 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health and Health Department", "Health-Mental Health", "Occupations and Professions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiklund"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a0a9e6a-59c3-46c8-a489-86ff53875d97"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF0955&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "749d9181811ec2b4d50481e7349345997f52d3b78da31cb3cac5663c4df41d83"
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 SF 955 (2019-2020) — Health licensing technical changes; mental health professionals duty to warn and reciprocity expansion

## 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=SF955&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=SF955&version=2&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
3. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF955&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **126–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wiklund — primary (person)
- Abeler — cosponsor (person)
- Albright — cosponsor (person)
- Benson — cosponsor (person)
- Eaton — cosponsor (person)
- Moran — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2019-02-07** Referred to Health and Human Services Finance and Policy `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-18** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** General Orders: Stricken and re-referred to Judiciary and Public Safety Finance and Policy
- **2019-03-11** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-11** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-07** Special Order
- **2019-05-07** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-14** Returned from House
- **2019-05-17** Presentment date 05/17/2019
- **2019-05-20** Governor's action Approval 05/17/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-20** Secretary of State Chapter 28 05/17/2019
- **2019-08-01** Effective date 08/01/19
- **2019-05-09** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2019-05-09** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF2206
- **2019-05-10** Bills identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2019-05-10** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-10** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, May 14, 2019
- **2019-05-14** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2019-05-14** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2019-05-17** Presented to Governor 05/17/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-17** Governor approval 05/17/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-17** Secretary of State, Filed 05/17/19
- **2019-08-01** Effective date 08/01/19

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a0a9e6a-59c3-46c8-a489-86ff53875d97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).