2E Relating to health care providers; creating an exception to the hospital construction moratorium for a new hospital in Cass county; excepting a certain acute care hospital project in the city of Fergus Falls from the hospital construction moratorium; establishing an alternative approval process to evaluate certain hospital construction project proposals by the commissioner of health; requiring the commissioner to conduct public hearings prior to making a recommendation; specifying certain notice and proposal request requirements; specifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to multiple applicants seeking approval to build a hospital, requiring a needs assessment upon receipt of multiple proposals; specifying certain meeting requirements; requiring the commissioner to issue an order selecting an application following the closing of the record of the hearing and to submit the matter to the legislature for acceptance or rejection; providing for commissioner expenses payment; regulating the purchase and lease of new ambulances; requiring the commissioner of health to study and report to the legislature by a certain day on the need for a new process for approving the construction of medical facilities and on adding services to existing facilities
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