Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, providing for the financing of health, human services and corrections programs and reducing certain prior appropriationsARTICLE 1 APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services to increase services for certain disadvantaged families with children, requiring the commissioner to authorize a transfer from the federal TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) block grant to the federal social services block grant to meet the appropriation; reducing appropriations to the commissioner for certain management and administrative purposes and for children's, community social, aging adult, deaf and hard of hearing and refugee services, mental health, medical assistance (MA) long term care facilities, group residential housing (GRH), chemical dependency, work, child support enforcement and Minnesota supplemental aid (MSA) grants; providing a certain amount of money for basic health care grants for the elderly and disabled, for general assistance medical care (GAMC) and MinnesotaCare grants, for health care policy administration, for medical assistance long term care waivers and home care grants and for economic support and general assistance (GA) grants; repealing dental access and home sharing grants; limiting prescription drug program expenditures; eliminating planning and service development grants for fiscal year , welfare to work grants and certain prior appropriations for the day training and habilitation restructuring task force; reducing appropriations to the commissioner of health for family and community health, for access and quality improvement, for health protection and for management and support services; appropriating money to the veterans homes board for the operation of existing licensed bed capacity and to the health related licensing boards; requiring certain fund transfers; sunsetting uncodified language ARTICLE 2 CONTINUING CAREModifying certain local needs planning requirements for intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation; eliminating the authority of the commissioner of human services to approve the expansion of home and community based services for persons with mental retardation, requiring the commissioner to authorize the spending of new diversion resources and to manage the reassignment of waiver resources occurring from persons leaving the waiver to reduce costs; increasing the state share of the costs of certain nursing facility placements of persons with disabilities under a certain age; modifying certain ICF MR rate adjustment and simplifying certain occupancy data maintenance requirements; specifying payment rate adjustment responsibilities of the commissioner and modifying certain responsibilities of the day training and habilitation task force ARTICLE 3 HEALTH CARERequiring annual distribution by the commissioner of human services of a certain amount of money transferred from the medical education and research fund under the medical assistance (MA) prepayment demonstration project to the university of Minnesota board of regents for clinical graduate medical education; granting the commissioner the authority to administer a supplemental drug rebate program for drugs purchased under the medical assistance and drug prescription programs, authorizing contracts with pharmaceutical manufacturers and prior authorization; modifying eligibility for the prescription drug program; reducing the hospital payment rates for fee for service inpatient admissions and outpatient services; modifying the exclusion of assets designated as burial expenses and requiring employed persons with disabilities to verify earnings for medical assistance eligibility determination purposes; clarifying certain provisions providing for determination of medical assistance eligibility for the community spouse in institutionalized spouse cases, limiting the total amount of assets available to the community spouse, assets exceeding the limit to be considered available to the institutionalized spouse; prohibiting the transfer of certain annuities purchased after a certain date; reducing the dollar limit on uncompensated transfers for period of ineligibility determination purposes; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner to set maximum allowable costs for certain multisource drugs and modifying the formula for commissioner estimation of the actual acquisition costs of drugs for medical assistance coverage purposes; requiring the commissioner to withhold a certain percentage of managed care plan payments for the prepaid medical assistance and general assistance medical care (GAMC) programs pending completion of performance targets, authorizing exclusion of special demonstration projects involving alternative integrated long term care services; increasing the capitation rates; reducing the payment rate made to managed care plans under the project for covered services after a certain date, exclusions; limiting MinnesotaCare coverage for adult dental care services and expanding coverage for children; requiring the commissioner to withhold a certain percentage of managed care plan payments under the program pending completion of performance targets and reducing the total payment to the plans for covered services after a certain date; eliminating a certain MinnesotaCare program premium payment exclusion for certain children ARTICLE 4 MISCELLANEOUSIncreasing county liability for the costs of care in regional treatment centers; requiring the commissioner of human services to consolidate the nursing home services from the Ah-Gwah-Ching facility to the Brainerd regional human services center by a certain date; clarifying the responsibility of the commissioner to provide services to improve the health and functioning of children born to mothers using alcohol and controlled substances; modifying certain medical assistance (MA) rate disparities reduction and certain nursing facility voluntary closure biennial plan requirements; delaying the effective dates for development and implementation by the commissioner of quality profile systems for nursing facilities and other long term care services providers; requiring the commissioner to determine based on available resources the operation of the food stamp employment and training program on a statewide or selected counties basis and eliminating a certain limit on the cost of services per county; setting the total supplementary service rate and the negotiated percentage for group residential housing services; expanding the required uses of federal temporary assistance for needy families block grant money under the Minnesota family investment program, authorizing the use of unspent TANF funds to match state expenditures for MAXIS program administration; reducing the time limit for completion of education programs under MFIP, authorizing approval of an extended period for completion on an exception basis under certain conditions; limiting the authority of the commissioner to develop programs to provide specialized training to interviewers of maltreated children; delaying the deadline for commissioner development of a new nursing facility reimbursement system; repealing the requirement for the commissioner to fund child protection programs under chemical dependency treatment initiatives, the requirement to reduce the waiting list for home and community based services under medical assistance, county social service grants for former GRH recipients, the work first program, the child abuse professional consultation telephone line, medical assistance coverage for certain services to children with autism, the home sharing program, on site coordination (OSC) services projects, certain GRH supplementary service rate increases and the respite care pilot project, a certain prescription drug program eligibility expansion provision, certain provisions providing medical assistance coverage for breast or cervical cancer treatment, and for funding for day services programs and the day training and habilitation payment structure pilot project ARTICLE 5 HEALTH DEPARTMENTEliminating nursing facilities and home care providers from eligibility under the department of health summer health care interns program; repealing the occupational respiratory disease information system advisory group, the juvenile assessment centers grant program and certain provisions relating to the fetal alcohol syndrome campaign and education programARTICLE 6 CORRECTIONS Reducing appropriations to the board of public defense and to the department of corrections for adult institutions and for juvenile and community services; eliminating funding for the remote alcohol monitoring (REAM) program; providing a certain amount of money for an increase in probation services provided to Clearwater county; imposing extended responsibility on counties for the per diem cost of the confinement of juveniles (ra)