HF 2022

as introduced - 86th Legislature (2009 - 2010) Posted on 02/09/2010 01:57am

A bill for an act
relating to public safety; including registered housing with services
establishments in definition of health care facility for registration of predatory
offenders; amending Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 243.166, subdivision 4b.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 243.166, subdivision 4b, is amended to
read:

Subd. 4b.

Health care facility; notice of status.

(a) For the purposes of this
subdivision, "health care facility" means a facility deleted text begin licensed by deleted text end :

(1) new text begin licensed by new text end the commissioner of health as a hospital, boarding care home or
supervised living facility under sections 144.50 to 144.58, or a nursing home under
chapter 144A new text begin ;
new text end

new text begin (2) registered by the commissioner of health as a housing with services establishment
as defined in section 144D.01 new text end ; or

deleted text begin (2) deleted text end new text begin (3) licensed by new text end the commissioner of human services as a residential facility
under chapter 245A to provide adult foster care, adult mental health treatment, chemical
dependency treatment to adults, or residential services to persons with developmental
disabilities.

(b) Prior to admission to a health care facility, a person required to register under
this section shall disclose to:

(1) the health care facility employee processing the admission the person's status
as a registered predatory offender under this section; and

(2) the person's corrections agent, or if the person does not have an assigned
corrections agent, the law enforcement authority with whom the person is currently
required to register, that inpatient admission will occur.

(c) A law enforcement authority or corrections agent who receives notice under
paragraph (b) or who knows that a person required to register under this section is
planning to be admitted and receive, or has been admitted and is receiving health care
at a health care facility shall notify the administrator of the facility and deliver a fact
sheet to the administrator containing the following information: (1) name and physical
description of the offender; (2) the offender's conviction history, including the dates of
conviction; (3) the risk level classification assigned to the offender under section 244.052,
if any; and (4) the profile of likely victims.

(d) Except for a hospital licensed under sections 144.50 to 144.58, if a health care
facility receives a fact sheet under paragraph (c) that includes a risk level classification for
the offender, and if the facility admits the offender, the facility shall distribute the fact
sheet to all residents at the facility. If the facility determines that distribution to a resident
is not appropriate given the resident's medical, emotional, or mental status, the facility
shall distribute the fact sheet to the patient's next of kin or emergency contact.