Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for and modifying certain health and human services programs and services

ARTICLE 1 - LICENSING PROVISIONS

Modifying certain human services licensing and predatory offender data access provisions; authorizing the exchange of welfare licensing and investigative not public data between the licensing division of the department of human services and the department of corrections for combined services regulation purposes; expanding the definition of health care facility under the predatory offender registration law and exempting hospitals from the predatory offender admission patient notice requirement; expanding the licensing exception for head start nonresidential programs and clarifying the exemption for scouting, boys and girls club, and children's sports and art programs; clarifying the authority of the commissioner of human services to secure court orders against continued operation of programs failing to apply for a license after receiving notice of the license requirement; expanding certain requirements of counties or private child placing agencies granting emergency foster care licenses to relatives, requiring explanation of the background study process and information relating to legal representation, disqualification and the right to request reconsideration to prospective licensees, specifying certain licensing data maintenance requirements of the commissioner; prohibiting the commissioner from issuing licenses for services in households with individuals disqualified from licensure through a background check and specifying certain requirements for reapplication; modifying and clarifying a certain provision regulating the handling of personal funds or property of
persons served by residential programs; requiring family child care and child care center license holders to post correction or conditional license or license suspension or revocation orders, requiring simultaneous posting of investigation memoranda in maltreatment investigation cases; requiring and providing for the commissioner to issue temporary provisional licenses to license holders appealing license suspension or revocation with licenses expiring during the appeal period and new licenses to licensees under investigation with expired licenses; specifying the scope of contested case hearings upon determination of license holder responsibility for maltreatment and issuance of a fine at the same time and requiring the scope of administrative law judge review to include license denials or sanctions and determinations relating to setting aside disqualifications in certain criminal conviction or admission and variance termination cases; expanding the requirement for county attorneys to defend orders of the commissioner in consolidated contested case hearings relating to sanctions to family adult day services; specifying certain first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training requirements for staff in child care centers; expanding certain sudden
infant death syndrome (SIDS) risk reduction requirements to child foster care programs and to shaken baby syndrome; requiring county agencies to annually report to the commissioner certain information relating to disqualified household members for relative child foster care applicants and license holders; defining conflict of interest relating to county attorney enforcement of orders of the commissioner relating to sanctions and background checks; imposing certain child passenger restraint systems use and training requirements for family and group family child care, child care center and child foster care programs staff serving children under a certain age and expanding requirements for use; expanding the definition of incident under standards governing services
to the mentally retarded; clarifying the method for determining the number of direct service staff required for day training and habilitation services and modifying certain policies and procedures promoting consumer health and safety; modifying certain licensed programs background study requirements of the commissioner and of county or private agencies, requiring only one study of license holders owning multiple licensed facilities; clarifying and expanding certain disqualification requirements relating to the commission of certain crimes and specifying the disqualification period for disqualifications based on a judicial determination other than a conviction; expanding certain disqualification notice content requirements; specifying the timelines for reconsideration requests delivered by personal service or mail; expanding the requirement for the commissioner to determine risk of harm upon receipt of reconsideration requests; modifying and clarifying certain provisions
prohibiting or restricting commissioner disqualification set asides; providing for treatment on appeal of individuals disqualified based on a judicial determination and authorizing individuals disqualified based on both a preponderance of evidence and a conviction or admission and not receiving a set aside to request a fair hearing, exception, limiting the scope; limiting the scope of contested case hearings for public employees disqualified based on a conviction or admission; creating an exception to the requirement for the commissioner to obtain consent of license holders granted disqualification variances to disclose the reason for disqualification under certain child or foster care programs; requiring licensed family child care providers and child care centers to notify parents upon employment or presence in the home of persons subject to a set aside or variance; expanding certain recordkeeping requirements for patients and residents receiving state operated services; granting the commissioner access to medical and criminal history data for predatory offender risk assessment and management for registration purposes;
requiring and providing for background studies on guardians ad litem through the commissioner, specifying certain duties of the court; providing for the availability of certain expunged records for background check purposes; modifying the time limit for investigating agency action on reconsideration requests under the child and vulnerable adult maltreatment reporting acts and prohibiting the reconsideration of certain maltreatment determinations involving a fine; expanding the content requirement for nursing or health care facility vulnerable adult abuse prevention plans relating to the risk of abusing other vulnerable adults under certain conditions

ARTICLE 2 - MENTAL AND CHEMICAL HEALTH

Requesting clinical medical education programs training pediatricians to include curriculum in case and medication management for children suffering from mental illness; authorizing the commissioner of human services to transfer certain funds to implement the restructuring of adult mental health services; expanding and modifying certain duties of county boards under the children's mental health act and specifying certain level of care determination requirements; providing medical assistance (MA) coverage for mental health services provided by interactive video, for certain treatment foster care services, for psychiatric consultations provided through electronic communications to primary care practitioners and for transitional youth intensive rehabilitative mental health services; reducing the frequency requirement for autism spectrum disorder assessments under the medical assistance children's therapeutic services and supports program; modifying the division of cost requirements under medical assistance for the costs of certain placements in intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation or related conditions (ICF/MR); providing general assistance medical care and MinnesotaCare coverage for mental health telemedicine and for psychiatric consultations and modifying the GAMC standards of assistance under the adult mental health residential treatment program; requiring the commissioner of corrections to develop a model discharge planning process for certain criminal offenders with serious and persistent mental illness released from county jails for use by county human services departments; requiring the commissioner of administration to give priority to supported work vendors in awarding contracts for janitorial services for the new building for the departments of human services and health under certain conditions; providing an enhanced separation package for state employees covered by collective bargaining agreements negotiated by AFSCME council 5 separating from employment at the Willmar regional treatment center regardless of the date of facility closure and providing continued coverage under the Minnesota state retirement system (MSRS) or for election of coverage under the public employees retirement association (PERA) for employees transferring to Kandiyohi county employment

ARTICLE 3 - FAMILY SUPPORT

Modifying certain child care assistance subsidy restrictions; limiting the number of absent days allowed for reimbursement to child care providers under the child care assistance program, requiring medical condition documentation to exceed the limit; requiring the commissioner of human services to make available for viewing by licensed and legal nonlicensed child care providers a video presentation on the dangers associated with shaking infants and young children as part of the initial and annual training of the providers, participation by legal nonlicensed child care providers to be voluntary; reducing certain child care center licensing fees under the human services licensing act; modifying certain parental contribution requirements for the cost of services for children with mental retardation; reinstating the American Indian, alcohol and other drug abuse and American Indian child welfare advisory councils; authorizing and providing for the commissioner to authorize projects to test tribal delivery of child welfare services to American Indian children, parents and custodians living on reservations; expanding eligibility under medical assistance (MA) for targeted case management services for vulnerable adults and persons with developmental disabilities to certain adults lacking a permanent residence; extending the expiration date of the traumatic brain injury advisory committee; modifying certain general assistance interim assistance agreement and recoveries provisions, authorizing commissioner contracts for advocacy and support services to process claims for federal disability benefits for applicants or recipients of services or benefits supervised by the commissioner; modifying the group residential housing (GRH) supplementary payment rate for certain facilities in Hennepin county serving chemically dependent persons; modifying the treatment of supplemental security income and expanding employment and training services overview requirements under the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP); requiring and providing for the commissioner to establish a long term homeless supportive services fund to provide integrated services needed to stabilize individuals, families and youth living in supportive housing under the work first pilot project; requiring the commissioner to examine the feasibility of a statewide standard for setting license and background study fees for licensed family child care providers and make recommendations to the legislature by a certain date; modifying the child care assistance parent fee schedule; repealing the child care provider reimbursement rate freeze, the special revenue account for child support collections, the GA interim assistance advocacy incentive program and a certain study by the commissioner relating to the dedication of a portion of children and community services grant allocations for projects of regional significance

ARTICLE 4 - HEALTH IMPACT FEE

Imposing a tobacco use health impact fee on cigarette and tobacco products distributors and consumers to recover tobacco related health costs and to reduce tobacco use, creating a health impact fund for deposit of fee revenues; specifying certain tobacco expenditures certification requirements of the commissioner of human services and providing for certain fund reimbursements; specifying certain stamp requirements; authorizing commissioner of revenue revocation or suspension of licenses of distributors and sales or use tax permits of retailers failing to comply with the requirements; imposing a floor stocks fee on cigarettes and tobacco products, providing for audit and enforcement, requiring crediting to the health impact fund

ARTICLE 5 - MISCELLANEOUS

Modifying the prohibition on social worker sexual conduct with former clients; requiring and providing for the board of health to establish and maintain a cancer drug repository program authorizing persons to donate cancer drugs or supplies for use by individuals meeting certain eligibility criteria; 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; modifying certain provisions relating to adult mental health service delivery pilot projects, authorizing the implementation of enterprise activities; imposing an annual license fee on home and community based waiver residential based habilitation services for persons with developmental disabilities, exempting state operated programs; increasing the fee for the cost of background studies initiated by supplemental nursing services agencies and personal care provider organizations and the limit on the fee for the cost of obtaining and providing requested background study data; expanding Minnesota security hospital location requirements; requiring the commissioner of human services to authorize the method of payment to or from the department as a part of the human services programs administered by the department; requiring the deposit of child support collections in the general fund; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of finance to include a certain amount of money per year to fund projects of regional significance under the community service act; prohibiting contracting agreements between health plan companies or contracted pharmacy benefits managers and pharmacies from prohibiting certain transactions relating to the transfer of certain MinnesotaCare gross earnings tax expenses to the health plan company or the pharmacy benefits manager; authorizing regional service cooperatives and local government units to contract for the voluntary purchase of long term care insurance by employees and dependents; limiting county board payments for the costs of medical services provided to prisoners; modifying certain rate increase requirements for certain fee for service payments under medical assistance (MA), general assistance medical care (GAMC) and MinnesotaCare; repealing the special revenue account for child support collections and a certain provision clarifying the treatment of trusts for publlic health care programs qualification purposes

ARTICLE 6 - HEALTH DEPARTMENT

Requiring the commissioner of health to establish a temporary health information technology and infrastructure advisory committee for advice on certain health information technology and infrastructure issues; increasing well notification, permit, variance and disclosure certificate fees, changing exploratory borers licenses to explorers licenses and setting certain fees; increasing hospital and outpatient surgical center license fees and prescribing fees for plumbing examinations, registrations, licenses and inspections; expanding the definition of eligible rural hospital under the rural hospital planning and transition and capital improvement grant programs, requiring a commissioner priority to grant applications for electronic health records systems projects; requiring and providing for the commissioner to establish a rural pharmacy planning and transition grant program to preserve access to prescription medications and pharmacist skills; expanding the health professional education loan forgiveness program; increasing certain fees for processing requests for vital records, making the fees nonrefundable, requiring the establishment of a fee for electronic verification of vital events and authorizing the implementation of alternative payment methods; increasing the public water supply service connection annual fee; creating an exception to the hospital construction moratorium for certain critical access hospitals and modifying certain swing bed restrictions; authorizing the transfer of a certain number of mental health beds from the Hennepin county medical center (HCMC) to Regions hospital; requiring and providing for hospital and health care provider education of parents on the dangers associated with shaking infants and young children, specifying certain duties of the commissioner; requiring and providing for the commissioner to adopt certain statewide trauma system criteria for prompt transportation and treatment of severely injured people and to designate certain hospitals as trauma hospitals, regulating interhospital transfers and establishing a registry and an advisory council; reducing the blood lead level required for lead risk assessments of residences; increasing and expanding the fees for certification of environmental laboratories; expanding abortion informed consent requirements, requiring certain information relating to elimination or alleviation of organic pain to the unborn child; restricting the establishment of suicide prevention programs to the availability of funds; requiring and providing for the commissioner to establish a postpartum depression education and information program for use by health care professionals providing prenatal care to women; modifying the community clinic grant program; replacing the board of dentistry with the commissioner of health as the agency responsible for the donated dental services program; prohibiting a requirement for food establishments to acquire equipment or change construction solely as a result of ownership change; imposing a statewide hospitality fee to fund statewide food, beverage and lodging program development activities and increasing or imposing or increasing certain food and beverage establishment fees or penalties, clarifying certain food and beverage establishments inspection frequency requirements and providing for the inspection of school food service establishments; requiring and providing for the commissioner to develop a statewide integrated and comprehensive cervical cancer prevention plan for screening rate improvement purposes and to work with local public health departments to develop a public health information network consistent with the recommendations, goals and strategies of the Minnesota public health network report to the legislature and the e-health initiative; requiring the commissioner to review swing bed usage and report to the legislature by a certain date, to implement an interoperable electronic health records systems, to amend a certain rule for consistency with the new food manager certification fee and to review the leadership and advisory role of the department of health relating to dental health; repealing the rural community health centers and dentists loan forgiveness programs, the regulated food and beverage service establishment industry pilot project and the nursing low income loan repayment program

ARTICLE 7 - LONG TERM CARE AND CONTINUING CARE

Authorizing the commissioner of health to approve a request by a certain nursing facility in the city of Duluth for amendment of a previously approved nursing home bed moratorium exception project; extending the duration of extensions of approval of certain moratorium exceptions; requiring certain reports to the legislature by the commissioner on pending applications for medical assistance (MA) from persons residing in long term care facilities; providing a partial disregard for increases in benefits under title II of the social security act from income for eligibility of employed persons with disabilities for medical assistance; requiring and providing for the commissioner of human services in cooperation with the commissioner of commerce to establish the Minnesota partnership for long term care program to provide for the financing of long term care through a combination of private insurance and medical assistance; providing medical assistance coverage for relocation service coordination under targeted case management services and modifying coverage for home care targeted case management, requiring the commissioner of human services to execute a data use agreement with the centers for medicare and medicaid services to obtain long term care minimum data set data to assist residents of nursing facilities indicating a desire to live in the community; requiring the commissioner to exempt facilities with swing beds agreeing to provide certain services from the sole community provider requirement; specifying certain physician statement of need requirements for medical assistance coverage of personal care assistant services and certain records maintenance requirements of personal care assistants and organizations, modifying the authority to delegate duties of responsible parties to other adults and certain requirements for the flexible use of personal care assistant hours and providing for oversight of enrolled personal care assistant services providers; modifying eligibility for and coverage of alternative care services under medical assistance; modifying the quality assurance system under medical assistance for persons with developmental disabilities in Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Rice, Steele, Wabasha and Winona counties, extending the expiration date for the project and the quality assurance commission; modifying certain requirements for claims against life estates and joint tenancy interests and eliminating alternative care liens; providing immunity from liability for the commissioner, county agencies and elected officials for implementing certain prior medical assistance changes; increasing medical assistance payment rates for nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation or related conditions (ICF/MR) and certain home and community based waivered services providers, requiring use to increase wages and benefits for certain employees and to increase the number of staff, specifying certain facility or provider application and funds distribution plan requirements; providing a payment rate incentive for nursing facilities to establish single bed rooms; modifying the definition of nursing facility for long term care facilities central, affiliated or corporate office costs allocation purposes, providing for the allocation of certain costs on a functional basis, authorizing nursing facilities to assign certain remaining costs to the appropriate cost category for a limited period of time and authorizing inclusion of certain organization costs; extending the duration of contracts under the alternative payment demonstration project and providing for the phase out of the contracts; requiring and providing for the commissioner to establish a value based nursing facility reimbursement system to provide facility specific prospective rates for nursing facilities participating in the medical assistance program; providing a transitional supports allowance for persons under home and community based waivers moving from licensed to community settings; authorizing the commissioner to approve and implement programs for all inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) under the prepayment demonstration project and requiring the commissioner to seek federal approval to expand the Minnesota disability health options (MnDHO) program in stages; providing a group residential housing community living adjustment for persons eligible for and residing in group residential housing (GRH); providing reimbursement for certain home health services and a consumer directed community supports methodology for persons using the home and community based waiver for persons with developmental disabilities; requiring the commissioner to request federal approval to implement the transitional supports allowance and the choice of case management service coordination; specifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to the changes in medical assistance claims against life estates and joint tenancy interests and requiring the commissioner to arrange for a study of regional or local quality assurance models for disability services; requiring the commissioners of human services, the housing finance agency (HFA) and the state council on disability to convene an interagency work group to identify barriers, strengthen coordination, recommend policy and funding changes and pursue federal financing to assist persons with disabilities in relocating from or avoiding placement in institutional settings; requiring the commissioner to report to the legislature by certain dates on the redesign of case management services and on changes to the current nursing facility property payment system

ARTICLE 8 - HEALTH CARE - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

Providing for the transfer of certain revenues to the health care access fund, limits; requiring the Minnesota hospital association to develop a web based system for the disclosure of hospital charges; modifying a certain provision authorizing health care providers to provide care to patients at discounted payment amounts and the requirement for the commissioner of human services to implement certain health plan company audit requirements, requiring the commissioner to submit annual reports to the legislature identifying the number of audits performed by nationally recognized independent organizations and accepted, partially accepted or rejected; granting the commissioner the authority to administer a drug rebate program for persons eligible for general assistance medical care and to test and compare administrative models to demonstrate and evaluate outcomes of integrating state health care program business processes and access points; authorizing counties to retain a certain portion of the nonfederal share of recoveries under the MinnesotaCare program; authorizing state agency hearings for adverse decisions relating to medicare part D prescription drug subsidies; eliminating the requirement for prepaid health plans to notify the ombudsman upon the filing of complaints relating to denial of services; authorizing the department of human services to initiate administrative fraud disqualification hearings in certain cases and to withhold delinquent provider surcharges from payments; reducing the payment for fee for service inpatient and outpatient hospital admissions, excluding inpatient mental health services; providing disproportionate population hospital payment adjustments under the medical assistance (MA) inpatient hospital payment system for certain additional hospital services; eliminating the authority of the commissioner to annually adjust certain diagnostic related group payment rates and requiring periodic adjustments to certain hospital payments; expanding the definition of third party payer under the medical assistance program to entities under contract with recipients to cover medical costs; requiring the commissioner to administer eligibility determinations for the medicare part D prescription drug subsidy and facilitate the enrollment of eligible medical assistance recipients into medicare prescription drug plans; clarifying medical assistance eligibility for offenders on work release; authorizing the reduction of excess assets for medical assistance eligibility purposes; modifying the monthly deadline for recipient spenddown payments and clarifying the reporting requirements for recipients receiving fixed unearned, excluded or fluctuating low income; providing for the determination of the period of eligibility before application; requiring and providing for notice to the department of human services of monetary claims against persons, entities or corporations liable for medical care costs; requiring eligibility verification for women applying for continuation of medical assistance coverage following the end of the postpartum period; limiting reasonable expenses for institutionalized persons for medical assistance eligibility determination purposes; providing medical assistance coverage for eligible undocumented nonimmigrant pregnant women not covered by health insurance upon availability of federal and state funding; restricting medical assistance coverage for hospital emergency room services to emergency and emergency poststabilization or urgent care; prohibiting medical assistance payments for gender or sex reassignment surgery and for circumcision; eliminating the annual benefit limit under medical assistance and GAMC for dental services to adults; eliminating medical assistance coverage of drugs coverable under medicare part D after a certain date; modifying certain provisions governing the drug utilization review board and the formulary committee; excluding drugs used for the treatment of impotence or erectile dysfunction from the drug formulary; modifying the method for commissioner estimation of the actual acquisition costs of drugs; automatically granting prior authorization for brand name drugs prescribed for treatment of mental illness within a certain number of days of the availability of a generically equivalent drug under certain conditions; eliminating the sunset of the provision exempting antihemophilic factor drugs from prior authorization requirements under certain conditions; providing medical assistance and GAMC coverage for medication therapy management services for certain recipients, defining medication therapy management; increasing the maximum medical assistance reimbursement rates for special transportation services; reducing the maximum monthly copayment for prescription drugs; requiring and providing for the commissioner to establish a performance reporting and payment system for health care providers providing health care services to medical assistance, GAMC and MinnesotaCare program participants; requiring the commissioner to develop an implement a pilot intensive care management program for medical assistance children with complex and chronic medical issues unable to participate in the metro based U special kids program due to geographic distance; providing a transitional supports allowance for persons under home and community based waivers moving from licensed to community settings, specifying certain covered costs; requiring and providing for the commissioner to provide funding to qualified provider applicants for employee scholarships for education in nursing and other health care fields; reducing certain division of cost payment requirements of Hennepin county and the university of Minnesota and requiring Hennepin county, the Hennepin county medical center (HCMC), Ramsey county, Regions hospital, the university of Minnesota and the Fairview university medical center to periodically report to the commissioner certain payments qualifying for federal reimbursement; clarifying the exemption from the medical assistance prepayment demonstration project for persons enrolled in cost effective individual health plans; modifying and clarifying certain GAMC eligibility requirements, eliminating coverage for gender or sex reassignment surgery and eliminating or modifying certain copayment requirements; providing GAMC eligibility for individuals refusing to provide a social security number for medical assistance purposes due to religious objections; redefining gross individual or gross family income under the MinnesotaCare program and requiring the commissioner to use reasonable methods to calculate gross earned and unearned income; expanding eligibility for full medical assistance services for pregnant women; imposing copayment or coinsurance requirements under MinnesotaCare for nonpreventive visits to certain health care providers and for nonemergency visits to hospital emergency rooms; modifying the benefit limits for coverage for certain single adults and households without children; requiring individuals and families applying for MinnesotaCare coverage to provide social security numbers, exempting persons refusing due to religious objections; clarifying the definition of cooperation relating to establishing third party liability and requiring application for other benefits to be eligible for MinnesotaCare; requiring county agencies to enroll single adults and households with no children formerly enrolled in GAMC in MinnesotaCare; requiring verification of both earned and unearned income for MinnesotaCare eligibility purposes; modifying the effective date of coverage for persons added to families receiving covered health services and for eligibility upon renewal and specifying the effective date of coverage for single adults and households without children; clarifying the requirement for the commissioner to develop and implement procedures to require enrollees to report changes in income; modifying MinnesotaCare eligibility for certain children and prohibiting coverage for college students with access to health coverage through post-secondary education institutions; updating a certain provision restricting coverage of applicants or enrollees entitled to medicare; reducing the total payments made to managed care plans under the program; requiring determination of the sliding fee scale for MinnesotaCare premiums payment purposes to be based on the monthly gross income, requiring adjustment of premiums at the time of income change reports and increasing premiums by a certain percentage; requiring county agencies to pay premiums for single adults and households without children formerly enrolled in GAMC and enrolled in MinnesotaCare until renewal, premium payment continuation option; limiting cost liability of the department of human services for persons prevailing in certain actions; extending the restriction on commissioner use of a broker or coordinator to manage special transportation services; requiring the commissioner to establish an advisory committee on medical assistance nonemergency transportation services to monitor and evaluate the provision of the services and present recommendations for changes to the commissioner; limiting coverage of health care services under the medical assistance, GAMC and MinnesotaCare programs, requiring prior authorization of certain services and temporarily reducing the payment rate for the services, regulating appeals; requiring the commissioner to implement a pilot project to provide services for state program recipients through a new oral health care delivery system, contract requirement; prohibiting the commissioner from rejecting certain county based purchasing health plan proposals requiring purchasing on a sole source or single plan basis; requiring the commissioner to develop a planning process to implement an additional managed care arrangement to provide certain medical assistance services to recipients enrolled in the fee for service program; requiring the commissioner to seek federal matching funds for the alternative care program during negotiations with the federal government over the repeal of certain intergovernmental transfers and to seek federal waivers and approvals to allow the charging of certain medical assistance recipients sliding scale premiums; repealing the prescription drug program, the expiration date for the disease management program under medical assistance and MinnesotaCare outreach grants

ARTICLE 9 - APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for agency management, for revenue and pass through expenditures, for Minnesota family investment program (MFIP), support services, child care assistance and development, child support enforcement, children and community services, general assistance (GA), Minnesota supplemental aid (MSA) and group residential housing (GRH) grants, for children and economic assistance management and administration, for basic health and continuing care, mental health, deaf and hard of hearing and chemical dependency entitlement and nonentitlement grants, for health and continuing care management and for state operated services, to the commissioner of health for community and family health improvement, for policy quality and compliance, for health protection, for minority and multicultural health and for administrative support services, to the veterans nursing homes, health related licensing and emergency medical services (EMS) boards, to the council on disability and to the ombudsman for mental health and mental retardation and for families; modifying the effective date for a certain provision regulating the docketing and payment of judgments on foreign money claims; modifying, authorizing, requiring or prohibiting certain fund transfers; regulating certain expenditures by the commissioner of human services and specifying certain TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) maintenance of effort (MOE) requirements; adjusting the bases of the health care access and general funds; setting a certain general assistance standard; requiring a delay in certain hospital payments; authorizing the commissioner of health to approve certain nursing home moratorium exception projects; limiting the growth of certain waiver programs; requiring the commissioner of human services to create a task force to discuss collaboration between schools and mental health providers for colocated and integrated services purposes; prohibiting the commissioners of health and human services from using indirect cost allocations to pay for program operational costs; sunsetting uncodified language; providing a retroactive general effective date, superseding and replacing funding authorized by a certain order of the Ramsey county district court
(Ch. 4, 2005 First Special Session)