---
type: "Bill"
title: "Competency attainment; technical changes made, and money appropriated."
description: "Competency attainment; technical changes made, and money appropriated."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 121"
citation: "Minnesota HF 121 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edelson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/505378c6-4059-4763-b355-db5c17db66c6"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0121&ssn=0&y=2023"
source_hash: "694ee84f37f4a256833ec86f17b184055b39d7eb4f8151a006b01c658780d694"
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 121 (2023-2024) — Competency attainment; technical changes made, and money appropriated.

## 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=HF121&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
2. **1st Unofficial Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF121&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0&type=ue)
3. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF121&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF121&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **131–0** (pass) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by the Senate — **133–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edelson — primary (person)
- Draheim — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Koznick — cosponsor (person)
- Moller — cosponsor (person)
- Novotny — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Author added Koznick
- **2023-01-23** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Author added Novotny
- **2023-01-26** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Ways and Means `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, February 6, 2023
- **2023-02-06** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-06** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2023-03-02** House rule 1.15 (c), message requesting concurrence received
- **2023-03-06** Returned from Senate with amendment
- **2023-03-06** Motion to concur with Senate amendments
- **2023-03-06** Motion prevailed
- **2023-03-06** Third reading as amended by the Senate `reading-3`
- **2023-03-06** Bill was repassed as amended by the Senate
- **2023-03-16** Presented to Governor 03/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-16** Governor approval 03/16/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-16** Secretary of State, Filed 03/16/2023
- **2023-02-08** Received from House `introduction`
- **2023-02-08** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-20** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-01** Special Order
- **2023-03-01** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-03-16** Presentment date 03/16/23
- **2023-03-16** Governor's action Approval 03/16/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-16** Secretary of State Chapter 14 03/16/23
- **2023-03-17** Effective date 03/17/2023

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/505378c6-4059-4763-b355-db5c17db66c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).