Relating to human services; extending the deadline for application to the commissioner of health for designation as an essential community provider for certain nonprofit providers or facilities certified as medical assistance (MA) providers and meeting certain specified criteria and providing for renewal of essential community provider designations; imposing an age range for medical assistance eligibility for employed persons with disabilities; clarifying and modifying certain provisions providing for residential services for children with severe emotional disturbance under medical assistance; modifying the conditions for coverage for services provided by facilities considered not to be institutions for mental disease; modifying certain provisions providing for payment rates to counties for residential services and for the use of federal earnings; modifying certain quality measures requirements; clarifying the county maintenance of effort and reporting requirements; expanding certain enforcement authority of the commissioner of human services; modifying certain services for the elderly and disabled under the medical assistance prepayment demonstration project, authorizing the commissioner to contract with counties for the services and requiring county authority approval of demonstrations for persons with primary diagnoses of mental retardation or related conditions, serious and persistent mental illness or serious emotional disturbance; clarifying a certain provision specifying eligibility requirements for general assistance medical care (GAMC); modifying certain copayment and coinsurance requirements under MinnesotaCare; delaying a certain reporting requirement of the commissioner relating to implementation of the rehabilitation services option for adults with mental illness; requiring the commissioner to amend or repeal obsolete provisions of certain rules governing eligibility for the medical assistance program and in consultation with the representatives of affected providers, consumers and counties to review group residential housing (GRH) expenditures eligible for reimbursement under the home and community based waiver services program for persons with mental retardation or related conditions (MR RC waiver), specifying certain review content requirements; requiring the exclusion of expenditures for housing with services and adult foster care in determining average monthly expenditures per client for alternative care program pilot projects and extending the expiration date of the projects; repealing a certain provision providing for inpatient hospital copayments under MinnesotaCare upon federal approval (Ch. 340, 2000)