hf376 Community care options for older adults act providing comprehensive senior care, and money appropriated. ARTICLE 1 COMMUNITY ACCESS AND SUPPORTS FOR SENIORS Section 1: Minnesota Statutes 2000 relating to medical assistance eligibility requirements amended to define income eligibility as one having "an income up to 100 percent of the federal poverty guidelines." Sec. : Minnesota Statutes 2000 concerning special needs payments amended; Food Stamp allotment provided; "shelter needy" and "gross income" defined. Sec. 3: "Community," "older adult," and "older adult services" defined; community services grants program created and statement of purpose provided; grant eligibility requirements provided. Sec. 4: "Eligible nursing home" defined; guidelines established for allocating and authorizing grants for eligible nursing homes; grant program evaluation procedure provided. Sec. 5: Medical assistance pilot project on senior services established and statement of purpose provided; federal waiver authority and annual report guidelines provided; sunset date for pilot project established as June 30, . Sec. 6: Senior information source program defined and established; proposal procedure provided; "qualified consortium" defined; fiscal requirements for proposal respondents provided; proposal respondent evaluation procedure defined. Sec. 7: Expansion of bed and older adult services distribution study initiated; "critical access service site" defined; guidelines for identification of critical access service sites and grant request priority provided.ARTICLE 2 CAREGIVER SUPPORTSection 1: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to make employees of licensed nursing facilities eligible for hospital, medical, and dental benefits. Sec. 2: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to prevent "wage increases received by long-term care workers as a result of direct mandate by the legislature" from being included in annual income figures for the purpose of determining eligibility. Sec. 3: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to require the commissioner of health to perform background studies of all individuals providing services in health care facilities and employed by temporary employment agencies and controlling persons of temporary employment agencies; agency responsibilities provided. Sec. 4: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to include resident attendants in minimum staffing requirement counts; federal waiver request deadline changed from May 15, 2000 to July 15, 2000. Sec. 5: "Resident attendant" redefined. Sec. 6: Qualification requirements for resident attendants as defined in Minnesota Statutes amended to reflect changes in Sec. 5. Sec. 7: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to reflect changes in training and competency standards contained in the nursing assistant training curriculum. Sec. 8: Health care worker background check procedure updated to include employees of temporary pool agencies. Sec. 9-11: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to include "registrant" with "applicant" and "license holder" as pertains to notification to subject and license holder of study results, reconsideration of disqualification situations, and disqualification situations. Sec. 12: "Commissioner," "temporary employment agency," and "health care facility" defined. Sec. 13: Registration of temporary agencies serving health care industry required.Sec 14: Enforcement regulations for situations involving violation of statutes or rules relating to temporary employment agencies or for conduct detrimental to the welfare of the consumer provided. Sec. 15: Injunctive relief procedures clarified. Sec. 16: Subpoena procedures clarified. Sec. 17: Regulations provided for situations involving temporary agency employees with prior criminal convictions. Sec. 18: Temporary employment agency registration procedures provided. Sec. 19: Written temporary employment agency contract requirements provided. Sec. 20: Duties and authority of commissioner of health in related situations provide. Sec. 21: Maximum rates of payment for services provided by a temporary employment agency defined. Sec. 22: Loan forgiveness, grant, tuition waver, and training program for licensed professional staff established.ARTICLE 3 PAYMENT AND QUALITY SYSTEM REFORM Section 1: Quality and payment review commission established; rules and regulations provided. Sec. 2: New operating payment system for nursing facilities receiving medical assistance payment established; procedures for determining payment system clarified. Sec. 3: Operating payment rate adjustment for nursing facilities defined; rental factor, occupancy factor, property rates, per-bed investment rates, equipment allowances, debt and interest expenses, building capital allowances, and alternate rate situations included. Sec. 4: Long-term care revolving fund established. Sec. 5: Regulatory impact review procedure clarified.ARTICLE 4 INFRASTRUCTURE CONVERSIONSection 1: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to change maximum allowed nursing home construction expenditures. Sec. 2: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to define "technology" as pertains to nursing homes and health care. Sec. 3-4: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to reflect changes indicated in Section 1. Sec. 5: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to include technology costs in an analysis of projected costs of a nursing facility proposal; also amended to allow authorization for expenditures to carry forward into the following biennium. Sec. 6: Minnesota Statutes 2000 relating to criteria for review of health care facilities amended to exclude the goals stated in section 144A.31; also amended to include "the extent to which the project increases the number of private or single bed rooms" as a criterion for review. Sec. 7: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to add a subdivision providing for the carry forward of appropriated funds. Sec. 8: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to eliminate "authorized under section A.073" from the definition of the word "conversion." Sec. 9: Minnesota Statutes 2000 establishing exemptions for the moratorium on licensure or certification of new nursing home beds amended to remove facilities "under contract with the commissioner under this section" from exemption. Sec. 10: Reimbursement guidelines for construction projects for alternative payment system nursing facilities provided. Sec. 11: Conditions defined for a federal waiver of the cost of a private room for medical assistance recipients; private room incentive provided. Sec. 12: Nursing home facility conversion program established.ARTICLE 5 QUALITY IMPROVEMENTSection 1: Alternative nursing home survey process defined; required monitoring visit procedure provided. Sec. 2: Innovations in quality demonstration grant program established; eligibility requirements provided.ARTICLE 6 PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITYSection 1: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to change definition of an "eligible person" from "an active member of a public pension plan" to simply "a member of a public pension plan." Sec. 2: Long-term care partnership program established to provide for the financing of long-term care; terms defined; eligibility and approval conditions provided. Sec. 3: Minnesota Statutes 2000 amended to change maximum tax credit allowed per year from 200 to 500 dollars for married couples and from 100 to dollars for all other filers.ARTICLE 7 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONSSection 1: Laws 1999 amended to change state licensure conflict expiration date to 2003. Sec. 2: RepealerARTICLE 8 APPROPRIATIONSSection 1: Community services development grant funds appropriated. Sec. 2: Transition planning grant funds appropriated. Sec. 3: Medical assistance pilot project funds appropriated. Sec. 4: Senior information source program funds appropriated. Sec. 5: Funds appropriated for identification of critical access service sites. Sec. 6: Tuition assistance program funds appropriated. Sec. 7: Funds appropriated for loan forgiveness program. Sec. 8: Quality and payment review commission funds appropriated. Sec. 9: Funds appropriated to negotiate ventilator dependent rates. Sec. 10: Funds appropriated for the nursing home moratorium exception process Sec. 11: Nursing home facility conversion program funds appropriated. Sec. 12: Alternative survey process funds appropriated. Sec. 13: Provider education funds appropriated. Sec. 14: Quality demonstration grant funds appropriated. Sec. 15: State long-term care insurance benefit funds appropriated. Sec. 16: Long-term care partnership program funds appropriated.