1E "Healthy Minnesotans Biomonitoring Program"; requiring the commissioner of health to provide community based biomonitoring on a voluntary and confidential basis using biospecimens to identify toxic chemicals in the environment, defining biomonitoring and biospecimens; requiring the examination of breast milk in economically, racially and geographically diverse communities for toxic chemical identification purposes, requiring expansion of the program upon the availability of funds; requiring the commissioner upon detecting a toxic chemical in a program participant in consultation with the commissioners of agriculture, natural resources (DNR) and the pollution control agency (PCA) to examine the possible presence of the chemical in the surrounding environment and to develop recommendations to reduce or minimize possible contamination or exposure; providing for voluntary participation in the program, classifying data collected as non public health data; requiring the commissioner to develop program guidelines, authorizing contractual agreements with health clinics, community based organizations or experts to perform the activities; requiring commissioner establishment of the healthy Minnesotans biomonitoring program advisory panel, specifying certain membership requirements and creating scientific and community representative committees, specifying membership and recommendation duties; requiring the commissioner to identify and list toxic chemicals to be included in the scope of the program and to prioritize the chemicals according to the threat to public health; creating a healthy Minnesotans biomonitoring program account in the special revenue fund and appropriating money in the account to the commissioner for program implementation purposes; requiring the commissioner to report to the legislature by a certain date summarizing the initial activities of the program and to subsequently submit biennial reports describing the effectiveness of the program, requiring dissemination of the reports on the department web site
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