2E Relating to human services; authorizing the commissioner of corrections to contract for the purchase of prescription drugs for persons confined in state correctional institutions, authorizing local government participation in the purchasing pool for the benefit of persons confined in local correctional facilities and providing for the establishment of a drug formulary; expanding the requirement for the commissioners of human services and corrections to offer to develop discharge plans for community based services for offenders with serious and persistent mental illness and modifying certain plan content requirements, providing for commissioner determination of offender eligibility for medical assistance (MA), general assistance medical care (GAMC) or MinnesotaCare and imposing certain duties on discharge planners; increasing the minimum day supply for prescriptions; clarifying eligibility for medical assistance for offenders on work release; requiring the commissioner of administration to give priority to supported work vendors in awarding contracts for janitorial services for the new buildings for the departments of human services and health; requiring the commissioner of the housing finance agency (HFA) to allocate a certain amount of money from the housing trust fund account in the housing development fund for supportive housing projects providing employment support
(ra, ja)