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type: "Bill"
title: "Provider-patient relationship required in order to make ophthalmic prescriptions."
description: "Provider-patient relationship required in order to make ophthalmic prescriptions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HF 559"
citation: "Minnesota HF 559 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drugs and Medicine", "Health and Health Department", "Occupations and Professions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pinto"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b64cbd9-4a0c-4f3e-bad9-d4e8230ccc6d"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=House&f=HF0559&ssn=0&y=2019"
source_hash: "c1595eb23d5945cc09f128376a95d4a2bde842e40375f016d63ffc08b237f81e"
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 559 (2019-2020) — Provider-patient relationship required in order to make ophthalmic prescriptions.
## 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=HF559&version=1&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF559&version=0&session=ls91&session_year=2019&session_number=0)
## Votes
- Passage — **11217** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Pinto — primary (person)
- Backer — cosponsor (person)
- Bierman — cosponsor (person)
- Fischer — cosponsor (person)
- Freiberg — cosponsor (person)
- Housley — cosponsor (person)
- Morrison — cosponsor (person)
- Nornes — cosponsor (person)
- Theis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-31** Introduction and first reading, referred to Health and Human Services Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Authors added Backer, Nornes, and Bierman
- **2019-03-28** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-28** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Tuesday, May 07, 2019
- **2019-05-07** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2019-05-07** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2019-05-16** Returned from Senate
- **2019-05-17** Presented to Governor 05/17/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-17** Governor approval 05/17/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-17** Secretary of State, Filed 05/17/19
- **2019-07-01** Effective date 07/01/19
- **2019-05-07** Received from House `introduction`
- **2019-05-07** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2019-05-07** Referred to Rules and Administration for comparison with SF544, now on General Orders `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** Comm report: Subst. for SF on General Orders SF544
- **2019-05-08** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-14** Special Order
- **2019-05-14** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-17** Presentment date 05/17/2019
- **2019-05-17** Governor's action Approval 05/17/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-20** Secretary of State Chapter 31 05/17/2019
- **2019-07-01** Effective date 07/01/19
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b64cbd9-4a0c-4f3e-bad9-d4e8230ccc6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).