---
type: "Bill"
title: "Conversion therapy prohibited for children and vulnerable adults, medical assistance coverage prohibited, and misrepresentation of conversion therapy services or products prohibited."
description: "Conversion therapy prohibited for children and vulnerable adults, medical assistance coverage prohibited, and misrepresentation of conversion therapy services or products prohibited."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 16"
citation: "Minnesota HF 16 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children and Minors", "Health and Health Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hollins"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-01-04"
last_action: "2023-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/339e684f-797d-4a48-8c30-7a14b7656df7"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0016&ssn=0&y=2023"
source_hash: "198b4e5c1d44cd03c316f82b3a17c4f8db5ab11638b1542f62199ab390d71b9c"
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 16 (2023-2024) — Conversion therapy prohibited for children and vulnerable adults, medical assistance coverage prohibited, and misrepresentation of conversion therapy services or products prohibited.

## 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=HF16&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
2. **2nd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF16&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
3. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF16&version=3&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
4. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF16&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Amendment to Franson Amendment — **70–59** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **81–46** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **59–70** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hollins — primary (person)
- Becker-Finn — cosponsor (person)
- Bierman — cosponsor (person)
- Brand — cosponsor (person)
- Carroll — cosponsor (person)
- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
- Coulter — cosponsor (person)
- Curran — cosponsor (person)
- Dibble — cosponsor (person)
- Edelson — cosponsor (person)
- Finke — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Frederick — cosponsor (person)
- Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Hanson, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Hemmingsen-Jaeger — cosponsor (person)
- Her — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Keeler — cosponsor (person)
- Kozlowski — cosponsor (person)
- Kraft — cosponsor (person)
- Lee, K. — cosponsor (person)
- Liebling — cosponsor (person)
- Lillie — cosponsor (person)
- Moller — cosponsor (person)
- Olson, L. — cosponsor (person)
- Pursell — cosponsor (person)
- Pérez-Vega — cosponsor (person)
- Rehm — cosponsor (person)
- Reyer — cosponsor (person)
- Sencer-Mura — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
- Vang — cosponsor (person)
- Youakim — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-04** Introduction and first reading, referred to Human Services Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-05** Authors added Liebling, Edelson
- **2023-01-23** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Health Finance and Policy `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-26** Committee report, to adopt as amended and re-refer to Commerce Finance and Policy `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, February 20, 2023
- **2023-02-20** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2023-02-20** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-04-21** Returned from Senate
- **2023-04-26** Presented to Governor 04/26/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-27** Governor approval 04/27/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-27** Secretary of State, Filed 04/27/2023
- **2023-02-21** Received from House `introduction`
- **2023-02-21** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2023-02-21** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF23, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** Comm report: Rule 45-amend, subst. General Orders SF23
- **2023-02-27** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-21** Special Order: Rule 45 amendment stricken
- **2023-04-21** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Presentment date 04/26/23
- **2023-04-27** Governor's action Approval 04/27/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-27** Secretary of State Chapter 28 04/27/23

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/339e684f-797d-4a48-8c30-7a14b7656df7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).