---
type: "Bill"
title: "Licensed traditional midwife authority to obtain, possess, and administer certain drugs, supplies, and devices clarification"
description: "Licensed traditional midwife authority to obtain, possess, and administer certain drugs, supplies, and devices clarification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "SF 3546"
citation: "Minnesota SF 3546 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drugs and Medicine", "Health and Health Department", "Occupations and Professions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pappas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/358464f2-dbba-4dae-acbf-a15789db06b6"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF3546&ssn=0&y=2024"
source_hash: "64d06fa2aff3834ff6a573c4f00390bfa474498fbdf531421321d5a1959043f0"
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 3546 (2023-2024) — Licensed traditional midwife authority to obtain, possess, and administer certain drugs, supplies, and devices clarification

## 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=SF3546&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2024&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Passage — **129–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pappas — primary (person)
- Abeler — cosponsor (person)
- Boldon — cosponsor (person)
- Dibble — cosponsor (person)
- Hemmingsen-Jaeger — cosponsor (person)
- Her — cosponsor (person)
- McEwen — cosponsor (person)
- Nadeau — cosponsor (person)
- Rehm — cosponsor (person)
- Sencer-Mura — cosponsor (person)
- Zeleznikar — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-29** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF3387
- **2024-03-04** Bills identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **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`
- **2024-03-12** Presented to Governor 03/12/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-13** Governor approval 03/13/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-13** Secretary of State, Filed 03/13/2024
- **2024-02-12** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2024-02-12** Referred to Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Author added Dibble
- **2024-02-26** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-26** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26** Author added Boldon
- **2024-02-29** Author added McEwen
- **2024-02-29** Special Order
- **2024-02-29** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Returned from House
- **2024-03-12** Presentment date 03/12/24
- **2024-03-13** Governor's action Approval 03/13/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-13** Secretary of State Chapter 77 03/13/24
- **2024-03-14** Effective date 03/14/2024

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/358464f2-dbba-4dae-acbf-a15789db06b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).