---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation; policy and technical changes made to coverage and hearings, and Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals related provisions modified."
description: "Workers' compensation; policy and technical changes made to coverage and hearings, and Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals related provisions modified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HF 4661"
citation: "Minnesota HF 4661 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Labor", "Employment", "and Labor and Industry Department", "Workers Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wolgamott"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-03-07"
last_action: "2024-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b19ace22-f0e6-4d04-980c-a05bbeeccaf5"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF4661&ssn=0&y=2024"
source_hash: "8ed869e84bbcc600b9883243c2f97ca47d5f37724fd2b19ec843e758efe2e870"
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 4661 (2023-2024) — Workers' compensation; policy and technical changes made to coverage and hearings, and Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals related provisions modified.

## 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=HF4661&version=1&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF4661&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **129–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wolgamott — primary (person)
- McEwen — cosponsor (person)
- Virnig — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-07** Introduction and first reading, referred to Labor and Industry Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-21** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-21** Author added Virnig
- **2024-04-04** Motion to re-refer Ways and Means
- **2024-04-04** Motion prevailed
- **2024-04-09** Committee report, to adopt `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-09** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-04-18** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- **2024-04-24** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-04-24** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2024-05-01** Returned from Senate
- **2024-05-07** Presented to Governor 05/07/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-08** Governor approval 05/08/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-08** Secretary of State, Filed 05/08/2024
- **2024-04-25** Received from House `introduction`
- **2024-04-25** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2024-04-25** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF4745, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-29** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF4745
- **2024-04-29** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-04-30** Special Order
- **2024-04-30** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Presentment date 05/07/24
- **2024-05-08** Governor's action Approval 05/08/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-08** Secretary of State Chapter 97 05/08/24

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b19ace22-f0e6-4d04-980c-a05bbeeccaf5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).