---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transfer of duties from Department of Human Services to Department of Direct Care and Treatment implemented; general executive board duties, powers, rulemaking authority, and administrative service contracting established; and conforming changes made."
description: "Transfer of duties from Department of Human Services to Department of Direct Care and Treatment implemented; general executive board duties, powers, rulemaking authority, and administrative service contracting established; and conforming changes made."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 3987"
citation: "Minnesota HF 3987 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governmental Operations-State", "Health and Health Department", "Human Services and Human Services Department", "State Boards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fischer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-02-19"
last_action: "2024-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d31ef00-2512-40f3-9ad9-b175952a65f5"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF3987&ssn=0&y=2024"
source_hash: "fd345baa252bc12f4163e39fe1c75101923f13b6dc18cb8f6eeb4a6ea138f65b"
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 3987 (2023-2024) — Transfer of duties from Department of Human Services to Department of Direct Care and Treatment implemented; general executive board duties, powers, rulemaking authority, and administrative service contracting established; and conforming changes made.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF3987&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **83–46** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fischer — primary (person)
- Baker — cosponsor (person)
- Curran — cosponsor (person)
- Hoffman — cosponsor (person)
- Noor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19** Introduction and first reading, referred to Human Services Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Author added Curran
- **2024-02-26** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to State and Local Government Finance and Policy `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 7, 2024
- **2024-03-07** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2024-03-15** Returned from Senate
- **2024-03-20** Presented to Governor 03/20/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** Governor approval 03/21/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-21** Secretary of State, Filed 03/21/2024
- **2024-03-11** Received from House `introduction`
- **2024-03-11** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2024-03-11** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF3936, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF3936
- **2024-03-13** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-14** Special Order
- **2024-03-14** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-20** Presentment date 03/20/24
- **2024-03-21** Governor's action Approval 03/21/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-21** Secretary of State Chapter 79 03/21/24

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d31ef00-2512-40f3-9ad9-b175952a65f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).