---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nurse and Patient Safety Act"
description: "Nurse and Patient Safety Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "SF 1384"
citation: "Minnesota SF 1384 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health and Health Department", "Hospitals and Health Care Facilities", "Labor", "Employment", "and Labor and Industry Department", "Popular Names"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Murphy"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 44
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-02-08"
last_action: "2023-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be7a3f9e-a8f7-4edc-b531-463e1589c73e"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF1384&ssn=0&y=2023"
source_hash: "4069aa5900a68ed1ea7c3157d62abee3b1950d2e1b47b9f2bbaac8cc3bf1a791"
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 1384 (2023-2024) — Nurse and Patient Safety Act

## 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=SF1384&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=SF1384&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=SF1384&version=2&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
4. **3rd Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF1384&version=3&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)
5. **CCR-SF1384A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF1384&version=A&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0&type=ccr)
6. **CCR-SF1384B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF1384&version=B&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0&type=ccr)
7. **CCR-SF1384C** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF1384&version=C&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0&type=ccr)
8. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF1384&version=0&session=ls93&session_year=2023&session_number=0)

## Votes

- Amendment — **61–69** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **61–68** (fail) · lower
- Passage, as amended — **69–61** (pass) · lower
- Amendment — **61–69** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **61–69** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **61–69** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **61–69** (fail) · lower
- Amendment — **61–69** (fail) · lower
- Repassage, as amended by Conference — **112–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Murphy — primary (person)
- Feist — cosponsor (person)
- Greenman — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Mann — cosponsor (person)
- McEwen — cosponsor (person)
- Mohamed — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson, M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-04-26** Received from Senate `introduction`
- **2023-04-26** Senate file first reading, referred for comparison HF1522
- **2023-04-27** Bills not identical, SF substituted on General Register
- **2023-04-27** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-27** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Monday, May 1, 2023
- **2023-05-01** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-05-01** Third reading as amended `reading-3`
- **2023-05-01** Bill was passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-05-18** Senate refuses to concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2023-05-18** Senate conferees Murphy; Abeler; Boldon
- **2023-05-18** House accedes, conference committee of 3 to be appointed
- **2023-05-18** House conferees Feist; Berg; Davids
- **2023-05-22** Senate adopted conference committee report, bill repassed
- **2023-05-22** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2023-05-22** House adopted conference committee report
- **2023-05-22** Third reading as amended by Conference `reading-3`
- **2023-05-22** Bill was repassed as amended by Conference
- **2023-05-23** Presented to Governor 05/23/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-26** Governor approval 05/26/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-26** Secretary of State, Filed 05/26/2023
- **2023-02-08** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Labor `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-20** Comm report: To pass and re-referred to Judiciary and Public Safety `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Comm report: To pass and re-referred to Labor `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** Comm report: To pass as amended `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-27** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Author added Mann
- **2023-04-12** Author added Mohamed
- **2023-04-25** Special Order: Amended
- **2023-04-25** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2023-05-02** Returned from House with amendment
- **2023-05-02** Senate not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2023-05-17** Chief author stricken, shown as co-author McEwen
- **2023-05-17** Chief author added Murphy
- **2023-05-18** Senate conferees Murphy; Abeler; Boldon
- **2023-05-19** House not concur, conference committee of 3 requested
- **2023-05-19** House conferees Feist; Berg; Davids
- **2023-05-22** Conference committee report, delete everything
- **2023-05-22** Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill
- **2023-05-22** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** Presentment date 05/23/23
- **2023-05-26** Governor's action Approval 05/26/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-26** Secretary of State Chapter 75 05/26/23
- **2023-07-01** Effective date 07/01/2023

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be7a3f9e-a8f7-4edc-b531-463e1589c73e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).