Establishing a health care and human services worker training and retention program to be administered by the job skills partnership program to alleviate critical worker shortages in certain areas of the state and to increase opportunities for current and potential direct care employees to qualify for advanced employment in the health care or human services fields; providing for funding, specifying certain grant application requirements; providing for awards to qualifying consortiums, local match requirements; specifying certain job skills partnership board evaluation and annual reporting, program and career enhancement requirements; establishing a health care and human services education grant program under the supervision of the higher education services office and the administration of qualifying consortia operating under the worker training and retention program to provide grants to health care and human services employees to complete post-secondary degrees or certificates, specifying grant eligibility, award and use requirements; requiring HESO to administer a scholarship banking program for health care and human services workers participating in consortia under the worker training and retention program for the earning of scholarship dollars for employment, specifying qualification requirements; requiring the board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities to develop a short term competency based standardized curricula in health care patient services and community support services for persons with disabilities; authorizing departments or programs at state colleges or universities to retain tuition and other receipts for training and retention programs; authorizing the commissioner of human services to increase medical assistance (MA) reimbursement rates for worker training and retention project participating providers to reflect costs; requiring the MnSCU board to study and report to the legislature by a certain date with a plan to offer credit hours toward degrees for education and training provided by institutions (ja)