1E Relating to the financing of state government, making supplemental appropriations for education, environment and agriculture, economic development, transportation, public safety, state government, and health and human services purposes

ARTICLE 1 - SUMMARY

Providing a summary of appropriations

ARTICLE 2 - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Providing a summary of early education appropriations; modifying child care assistance rates paid to providers, allowing a provider rate differential for accredited family child care providers and child care centers; clarifying developmental screening aid for school districts for children between the ages of three and six; creating the education parents partnership to provide parent education information to parents of newborns at the time of birth; increasing funding for ECFE for fiscal year 2007 and later; establishing a kindergarten entrance assessment initiative, establishing an intervention program for providing additional education under certain conditions, requiring report to the legislature; increasing duties of the Minnesota early learning foundation (MELF) to evaluate the effectiveness of the voluntary NorthStar quality improvement and rating system, requiring a report to the legislature; modifying the definition of first prior program year for adult basic education (ABE) purposes and modifying certain ABE program requirements; increasing state total ABE aid; modifying certain interagency early childhood intervention systems provisions for federal compliance purposes and modifying certain definitions and cross references; adjusting certain prior appropriations to the commissioner of education for ECFE aid, health and developmental screening aid and ABE aid; establishing an adult literacy grant program for recent immigrants to the state to meet
English language needs of refugees and immigrants and authorizing the issuance of grants; providing for a certification of school readiness and child care programs study, requiring report to the legislature; creating a new child care assistance parent fee schedule; establishing the legislative commission to end poverty by 2020, specifying certain guiding principles, requiring a legislative report, sunset provision; appropriations; repealing the child care absent day provision and the current parent fee schedule

ARTICLE 3 - GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying the method for calculating the prekindergarten transition revenue for 2007 and later, defining prekindergarten revenue; specifying certain revenue reserve requirements for school districts programs serving prekindergarten students; allowing school districts receiving alternative teacher compensation revenue for certain sites within the district to receive two additional years for making the transition to a district wide alternative teacher compensation plan; adjusting certain prior appropriations for general education aid; qualifying special school district #6, South St. Paul for alternative teacher compensation revenue for international baccalaureate pilot program use; providing for onetime supplemental aid for school districts and charter schools for 2007; appropriations

ARTICLE 4 - EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Requiring teacher preparation program participants to receive instruction in historical and cultural competencies relating to Minnesota American Indian tribes, specifying certain board of teaching rules adoption requirements; providing intermediate school district alternative teacher compensation revenue for the Perpich center for arts education and multidistrict integration collaboratives; establishing a pilot program to facilitate young children's second language learning and stronger literacy and verbal skills using American sign language (ASL), grant awards; authorizing the commissioner of education to contract with the board of regents of the University of Minnesota or another entity to develop a K-12 Chinese curriculum; providing funding for the Northwestern Online College in the High School program for professional development and web based technology for 2007; appropriations

ARTICLE 5 - SPECIAL EDUCATION

Providing for special education forecast maintenance of effort, redirecting forecast excess amounts to the state total special education aid under certain conditions, clarifying certain terms; requiring the commissioner to contract with an independent consultant to evaluate the special education funding structure, specifying certain consultant duties, requiring commissioner report to the legislature; appropriation

ARTICLE 6 - FACILITIES, ACCOUNTING, AND TECHNOLOGY

Allowing use of health and safety revenue for testing and calibration activities for existing mechanical ventilation systems; adjusting a certain prior appropriation for debt service aid; increasing emergency aid to independent school district #38, Red Lake, levy authority for the community ice arena construction deficit; allowing independent school district #829, Waseca, to levy for lost health and safety revenue; providing for independent school district #750, Rocori, for Project SERV; allowing certain fund transfers for independent school districts #2396, A.C.G.C., #242, Alden-Conger, #463, Eden Valley-Watkins, #601, Fosston, #424, Hopkins, #270, Lester Prairie, #635, Milroy, #345, New London-Spicer, #118, Northland Community Schools, #750, Rocori, #623, Roseville, and #347, Willmar

ARTICLE 7 - NUTRITION AND LIBRARIES

Increasing certain prior appropriations for school lunch aid and basic system support grants

ARTICLE 8 - STATE AGENCIES

Modifying a prior appropriation to the department of education to provide the base for 2008 and 2009 for the Minnesota children's museum and academy of science, the boards of teaching and of school administrators and the value added index assessment model

ARTICLE 9 - EDUCATION FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

A. GENERAL EDUCATION - Providing for general education aid, referendum tax base replacement aid, abatement revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid and nonpublic pupil transportation

B. EDUCATION EXCELLENCE - Providing for charter school building lease aid, charter school startup aid, integration aid, interdistrict desegregation or integration transportation grants, success for the future and tribal contract schools

C. SPECIAL PROGRAMS - Providing for regular special education, aid for children with disabilities, travel for home based services, special education excess costs, transition for disabled students, court placed special education revenue, health and safety revenue and alternative facilities bonding aid

D. NUTRITION AND ACCOUNTING - Providing for traditional school breakfast and kindergarten milk

E. LIBRARIES - Providing for multicounty, multitype library systems and regional library telecommunications aid

F. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION - Providing for school readiness, early childhood family education aid and health and developmental screening aid

G. PREVENTION - Providing for community education aid, adult with disabilities program aid and school age care revenue

ARTICLE 10 - HIGHER EDUCATION

Providing a summary of higher education appropriations; appropriating money to the office of higher education for a state grant program and to the board of regents of the University of Minnesota for academic programs at Rochester; modifying the definitions of eligible institution and resident student for state grant and child care grant purposes and for participation in the SELF loan program; clarifying the definition of resident student for high school graduate purposes; extending the student grants in aid grant surplus appropriation to 2009; modifying certain student loan provisions; providing for rehabilitation of SELF loans; modifying certain provisions relating to the university of Minnesota Rochester branch

ARTICLE 11 - ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES AND AGRICULTURE

Appropriating money to the department of agriculture for invasive species
control activities livestock compensation, plant pathology and biological
control, second harvest heartland, E85 pump installation, to the board of animal health for elimination of bovine tuberculosis, to the department of natural resources (DNR) for the general, natural resources and game and fish funds for bovine tuberculosis surveillance and diagnosis, harmful invasive species prevention and control, the Minnesota shooting sports education center, canoe routes, emergency deterrent materials assistance, and federal recreation area operation; allowing the board of animal health to test or require bovine or cervidae testing for bovine tuberculosis; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to prescribe and issue temporary state park permits for towed vehicles; exempting Soudan underground mine state park from state park permit
and fee requirements; expanding state park permit fee requirements to include annual state park permit fees for motorcycles; authorizing the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) in cooperation with local units of government and private individuals and groups to mark certain canoe route on the Sauk river; requiring possession of a horse trail pass on state trails, parks, recreation areas and forests; providing for licensing agents and pass issuance requirements; specifying fees; providing for deposit of fees for trail maintenance; authorizing issuance of duplicates passes under certain conditions; modifying conditions for emergency crop protection assistance to include the prevention of disease in wild animals; appropriating money to the general, natural resources, game and fish, and permanent school funds for iron ore cooperative research, minerals cooperative environmental research, the minerals management account, for acceleration of land exchanges, sales, and leases of school trust lands, for identification of aggregate on school trust lands, and for the international wolf center building renovations

ARTICLE 12 - CLEAN WATER LEGACY

Appropriating money to the pollution control agency (PCA), public facilities
authority, the commissioner of agriculture, the board of water and soil
resources (BOWSR) and the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for the protection, restoration and preservation of the quality of surface waters

ARTICLE 13 - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Appropriating money to the department of employment and economic development (DEED) for the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, the biotechnology research partnership between the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Foundation, Advocating Change Together, Cedar Mills wastewater treatment system construction, the Fergus Falls West Central Initiative, Minneapolis summer youth employment, Worthington veterans memorial construction, the department of commerce for the petroleum tank release cleanup fund (petrofund), the housing finance agency (HFA) for mortgage foreclosure prevention, the department of human services for the commission serving deaf and hard of hearing people, the boxing commission, the Minnesota film and TV board for explore Minnesota tourism, and modifying a prior appropriation for workforce development programs for deaf and hard of hearing people; changing the name of the Minnesota film board to the Minnesota film and TV board and modifying the film production jobs program; making money in the contaminated site cleanup and development grant account available until spent; requiring the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to assist small businesses to access federal funds from the federal small business innovation research program and the small business technology transfer program, requiring the implementation of certain fees; removing a fee for monitoring licensing examinations for applicants for certain licensure renewals; establishing the Minnesota boxing commission; specifying certain membership, meeting and licensing requirements; requiring the commission to adopt rules to include standards for the physical examination and condition of boxers, nontraditional fighters and referees and certain rules relating to the conduct of boxing exhibitions, bouts, fights and nontraditional fighting contests and events; specifying certain regulations for boxing contests, tough man contests and nontraditional fighting contests; specifying certain licensure and fees requirements and certain simulcast license requirements; specifying certain insurance requirements; imposing penalties for certain nonlicensed exhibitions; defining certain terms; imposing a gross receipts tax on contests and exhibitions for credit to the Minnesota boxing commission fund

ARTICLE 14 - TRANSPORTATION

Appropriating money for transportation purposes; appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to implement a town road sign replacement program including purchase and installation of new signs, authorizing use of appropriation to satisfy local matching requirements; appropriating money to the commissioner of transportation (DOT) and to design and construct a new radio tower in Roseau county; funding bus transit operations, requiring the metropolitan council to conduct a study on the feasibility of the use of light rail transit in the I-394 corridor between downtown Minneapolis and Ridgedale drive in Minnetonka with an alternative extending to Wayzata; purchasing automated external defibrillators for state patrol vehicles

ARTICLE 15 - PUBLIC SAFETY

Appropriating money for public safety purposes; funding certain initiatives sanctioned by the supreme court; providing funds for the board of judicial standards to investigate complaints of judicial misconduct; appropriating money to the board of public defense for costs associated with appellate transcripts, providing money for emergency management relating to hazardous substances; enhancing the predatory offender database an addressing the missing persons and unidentified bodies backlog; providing for a model policy to address law enforcement efforts to find missing adults; expanding operation of the gang strike force and narcotics task force; providing for a safe harbor for sexually exploited youth pilot project grant to Ramsey County; initiating a human trafficking task force plan; providing for legal services for trafficking
victims; implementing a toll free hotline for trafficking victims; providing for a crime victims support grant, allowing Minneapolis to replicate its security collaborative currently functioning in the first district; providing funds to Minneapolis for the purpose of hiring more peace officers; funding current correctional officer positions; providing funding under certain conditions for a mentoring program for children in disadvantaged family situations; funding Peace Officer Standards and Training Board (POST) training audits; providing for the transfer of excess POST Board funds to the general fund, funding technology improvements, reimbursing local governments for peace officer training costs; defining and redefining certain terms relating to hazardous substance, lead agency, security measure, use of inherently safer technology and worst case discharge; providing for general and specific security measures while transporting, storing or general handling of oil or other hazardous substances; providing for a security plan for facilities handling oil and other hazardous substances, specifying completion date of security plan; directing the commissioner of public safety or person designated by the commissioner to review these security plans, providing for assessments and studies to be only accessible to certain groups; providing for a human trafficking study to analyze collected data from the statewide human trafficking assessment, developing a training plan to identify and prosecute traffickers as well as protect the rights of the trafficking victims, developing a public awareness initiative with regard to trafficking and reporting findings to the legislature, assisting victims of trafficking; creating the human trafficking task force, determining duties, membership, officer election, meetings and providing for a specific date of expiration; providing for a toll free hotline for trafficking victims; modifying the current fine disposition structure for Hennepin county; eliminating the fees charged to the county or to the state or governmental subdivision for a case prosecuted in the district court; repealing an obsolete reference to the municipal court system

ARTICLE 16 - STATE GOVERNMENT

Appropriating money for state government purposes and providing certain reductions; providing for the appropriation of funds to the legislature for legislative forums and the international legislators forum, to the governor and lieutenant governor for interagency agreements, to the finance department for Northwest airlines bankruptcy counsel, to the office of enterprise technology, for employee relations, specifically for government shutdown reimbursement, for the establishment of a center for health care purchasing improvement, for veterans affairs, specifically for the soldiers assistance fund, website development, grants to counties, higher education veterans assistance offices, outreach and assistance to underserved veterans and veterans organizations, to the amateur sports commission and for the relocation of the office of administrative hearings to the Stassen building in St. Paul; providing for the establishment of and appropriation for an information and telecommunications account and providing for charge collection; requiring the commissioner of employer relations (DOER) to establish and administer the center for health care purchasing improvement to support state efforts to be a more prudent and efficient purchaser of quality health care services, requiring annual report to the legislature and the governor; establishing the higher education veterans assistance program, directing the commissioner of veterans affairs to coordinate the program, forming a steering committee, directing each campus of the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota state colleges and universities system to provide office space for this program, requiring a report to the legislature, sunset

ARTICLE 17 - HUMAN SERVICES FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Reducing appropriations to the department of human services to reflect forecast changes

ARTICLE 18 - HEALTH DEPARTMENT

Authorizing e-health record grants, determining projects to receive grants, directing the commissioner of health to evaluate the program and report findings to the legislature; providing for a state-level statewide methamphetamine coordinator within the department of health, specifying certain duties, requiring a goal summary report to the legislature by a certain date; modifying a prior appropriation for community and family health improvement by eliminating the family planning base reduction for the special projects grants

ARTICLE 19 - HEALTH CARE

Modifying certain counseling requirements for reverse mortgages; creating an exception to the nursing home bed moratorium to license and certify a certain number of relocated beds transferred from an existing state owned facility in Cass county to a new replacement facility located on the Ah-Gwah-Ching campus; providing for an assisted living bill of rights addendum; establishing requirements for assisted living services; limiting use of the term assisted living; specifying procedures for certain home care providers for terminating home care services for assisted living clients and specifying certain written notice requirements; modifying the home care bill of rights for purposes of assisted living; establishing the class F home care provider category; eliminating the class E assisted living programs license; defining arranged home care provider and specifying certain information requirements; defining assisted living and assisted living client; requiring the provision of information on assisted living and the legal rights of assisted living clients; specifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to failure of a housing with services establishment to comply with certain legal requirements; specifying continuation of reimbursements under assisted living service packages under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner to establish an advisory committee for recommendations on the format of a uniform
consumer information guide for use by individual providers of assisted living and requirements for informing assisted living clients of applicable legal rights, specifying certain membership requirements; requiring the commissioner to develop and implement a pay for performance system to provide performance payments to medical groups demonstrating optimum care in serving individuals with chronic diseases enrolled in certain health care programs administered by the commissioner; requiring the commissioner of human services in cooperation with the commissioner of the housing finance agency (HFA) to establish an
information and referral system to inform eligible persons regarding the
availability of reverse mortgages and available state incentives and coordinate necessary training for Senior LinkAge Line employees, mortgage counselors and lenders; requiring the commissioner of human services to establish and administer a prescription drug discount program and to execute a rebate agreement from manufacturers choosing to participate in the program for drugs covered under the medical assistance (MA) program; defining certain terms; specifying certain eligibility and application requirements and procedures; specifying certain procedures for participating pharmacies; requiring commissioner notification of rebate amounts, providing for payments to pharmacies; requiring the commissioner to establish an annual enrollment fee and
switch fee; establishing the Minnesota prescription drug dedicated fund in the state treasury for reimbursement purposes; requiring the board on aging to provide reverse mortgage information; providing limited medical assistance (MA) coverage for individuals eligible for medicare part D; requiring the commissioner to develop and implement an intensive care management pilot program for children, adults and families with complex and chronic medical conditions; providing services for persons using reverse mortgages under the alternative care program; modifying the employee scholarship program for employees of home and community based service providers; modifying certain program criteria, provider selection criteria and funding calculations; prohibiting certain actions relating to recovery of alternative care and certain reverse mortgages
for medical assistance (MA) purposes; requiring the commissioner to develop additional incentive based payments for nursing facilities under certain conditions; prohibiting commissioner approval of applications for planned closures for Cass county; modifying data reporting provisions relating to medical assistance prepayment demonstration project; authorizing the commissioner to contract with medicare approved special needs plans to provide medicaid services; limiting expansion of Minnesota disability health options (MnDHO) projects; authorizing the commissioner to contract with qualified medicare approved special needs plans to provide medical assistance basic health care services to persons with disabilities; authorizing the commissioner to award special hardship grants to nonprofit dental providers with a high proportion of uninsured patients under certain conditions; modifying general
assistance medical care eligibility for certain applicants; modifying the
definition of gross individual or gross family income for self-employed farmers; increasing the cap for inpatient hospitalization benefits for adults;
eliminating the social security number requirement for undocumented noncitizens and nonimmigrants eligible for MinnesotaCare; modifying citizenship requirements; requiring the commissioner to award grants to public or private organizations to provide information on the importance of maintaining insurance coverage and on how to obtain coverage from the MinnesotaCare program in areas of the state with high uninsured populations; modifying general requirements and other health coverage provisions; increasing payment rates to critical access dental providers; increasing provider rates; requiring premiums for military personnel and family members under the MinnesotaCare program to be paid by the
commissioner; establishing a MinnesotaCare option for small employers and specifying certain enrollment requirements; requiring the commissioner of the housing finance agency (HFA) in cooperation with the commissioner of human services to establish the reverse mortgage incentive program; modifying certain carryover funding requirements relating to the board of nursing; providing limited MA coverage for individuals eligible for medicare part D; establishing the pharmacy payment reform advisory committee under the direction of the
commissioner of human services to advise the commissioner and make
recommendations to the legislature on implementation of certain pharmacy reforms, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; authorizing counties overspending under the waived services program for persons with developmental disabilities to delay repayment until a certain date; requiring the commissioner of human services to prove for stakeholder participation relating to proposed changes in the medical assistance program; specifying revisor instructions; repealing a certain provision relating to limited benefits coverage for certain single adults and households without children and a certain rule relating to home care licensure

ARTICLE 20 - HEALTH CARE FEDERAL COMPLIANCE

Requiring health insurers as a condition of doing business in the state to
comply with requirements of the federal deficit reduction act of 2005; modifying a provision relating to medical assistance payments under nursing home admission contracts; modifying the definition of private health care coverage under medical assistance (MA); providing for a homestead equity limit for MA eligible individuals under certain conditions; providing for the treatment of continuing care retirement and life care community entrance fees as an available asset under certain conditions; requiring disclosure of individuals and spouses interests in annuities for MA purposes; modifying provisions relating to the long term care partnership program; modifying medical assistance eligibility;
providing for long term care partnership policy inflation protection;
eliminating total asset protection policies provisions; modifying compliance with federal law provisions; modifying certain provisions relating to limitations on estate recovery; specifying certain long term care partnership program implementation requirements; specifying limitations on liens; providing for burden of proof; providing for the payment of benefits from an annuity to the commissioner of human services; modifying prohibited transfers provisions, treating the purchase of annuities by or on behalf of an individual applying for long term care services as the disposal of an asset for less than fair market value under certain conditions; providing for a period of ineligibility for noncompensated transfers and for multiple fractional transfers of assets;
authorizing and providing for an undue hardship waiver request under certain conditions; requiring citizens and nationals of the United States to cooperate in obtaining satisfactory documentary evidence of citizenship or nationality as required by the federal deficit reduction act of 2005; requiring MA payment of a nonemergency emergency room facility component to be reduced to the payment level of the appropriate outpatient clinic facility component; repealing provisions relating to certain long term care partnership definitions and total asset protection

ARTICLE 21 - QUALIFIED LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE REGULATORY CHANGES

Authorizing the commissioner of commerce to extend the limitation periods relating to specific age categories in specific policy forms upon finding extensions are in the best interest of the public; modifying the mandatory format; providing for the death of the insured; providing for the use of level premium; providing an exception for authorized limitations and exclusions for expenses for services or items available or paid to another long term care insurance or health insurance policy; modifying certain required question provisions; requiring agents to list all other health insurance polices sold to applicants and still in force or sold within a certain period of time and no longer in force; requiring life insurance policies; defining claim; modifying reporting requirements; excluding life insurance policies from minimum loss ratio; providing for the nonforfeiture benefit requirement for group long term care insurance policy; modifying standards for marketing requirements; requiring and providing for the development and use of suitability standards, specifying procedures, requiring annual reports to the commissioner of commerce; requiring
the commissioner to approve insurer and producer training requirements in accordance with NAIC long term care insurance model act provisions

ARTICLE 22 - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

Establishing the work participation rate enhancement program (WORK PREP) under the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) as the state TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) program to serve families failing to make significant progress within MFIP due to certain barriers to employment and to stabilize and improve the lives of families at risk of long term welfare dependency; eliminating certain subsidy restrictions under child care assistance; establishing a provider rate differential for accreditation; requiring the commissioner of human services to provide a domestic violence informational brochure providing information about the existence of domestic violence waivers for eligible public assistance applicants; modifying the asset limit for food stamps; prohibiting the commissioner from moving programs or activities funded with MFIP or TANF maintenance of effort funds to other funding sources unless specifically approved by law; prohibiting the commissioner from spending TANF funds except as pursuant to a direction appropriation enacted by the legislature; providing for the treatment of MFIP expenditures to or on behalf of minor children; temporarily suspending the MFIP penalty; encouraging job counselors to allow participants anticipating in work activities to also participate in employment and training activities to meet federal hourly participation rates; modifying employment while attending postsecondary education requirements;
specifying certain eligibility requirements for MFIP or diversionary work program participants; requiring participation in family stabilization services by all caregivers; requiring county agencies to provide the services through a case management model, requiring the assignment of case managers to participating families within a certain number of days after receipt of MFIP financial assistance; requiring case managers to recommend and county agencies to establish and modify as necessary family stabilization plans, specifying certain plan content and completion requirements, requiring modification under certain conditions; specifying certain participant family stabilization plan cooperation and compliance requirements, providing for the imposition of sanctions for failure to comply; providing for a work participation bonus for participants exiting DWP or terminating MFIP cash assistance with earnings, specifying certain eligibility requirements; providing for use of the MFIP consolidated
fund to provide services to work program participants and increasing the
allocation percentage to counties and tribes, additional allocations to be
determined by the commissioner based on available funds; expanding child care assistance eligibility to program participants; requiring the commissioner of human services to develop specialized curriculum to train department, county agency and social service agency staff in performing and complying with certain postadoption search services guidelines; requiring commissioner to adopt rules; imposing an annual
federal collections fee for IV-D services under marriage dissolution maintenance and support payments provisions; modifying the child care assistance parent fee schedule; repealing provisions relating to the MFIP consolidated fund report requirement, child care provider absent days provision and performance base funds provisions

ARTICLE 23 - MENTAL HEALTH AND CHEMICAL HEALTH

Establishing mental health service delivery and finance reform, specifying
certain duties of the commissioner of human services relating to design and implementation of reforms, requiring report to the legislature by a certain date, specifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to regional projects for coordination of care; requiring country maintenance of effort; modifying certain duties of county boards relating to mental health services; authorizing and providing for children's mental health grants; modifying county portion for cost of care paid provisions; providing an additional exception for state operated community behavioral health hospitals; requiring mandatory reporting of use of opium by pregnant women for civil commitment and child maltreatment purposes; expanding chemical use assessments requirements relating to persons arrested outside of home county, the contacting of probation officers under certain conditions, and financial conflicts of interest by assessors; specifying certain duties of the commissioner of health relating to chemical
health; modifying mental health case management provisions; adding certified psychiatric nurse practitioner to medical assistance (MA) coverage; modifying certain provider qualification provisions; modifying mental health case management and rates; adding crisis assistance under covered service for MA; increasing certain critical access mental health rates; modifying general assistance medical coverages; modifying certain MinnesotaCare provisions relating to covered health services, limited benefits coverage for certain single adults and households without children and management care; requiring the commissioner of human services to establish pilot projects in Ramsey and Hennepin counties to provide mental health programs for certain unsheltered individuals; requiring report to the legislature by a certain date for recommendations on changing the consolidated chemical dependency treatment fund
and the feasibility of posting treatment program peer reviews at an online
location for client placements purposes and requiring the presentation of a plan for improving the availability of community based substance abuse treatment and other issues related to improving chemical health; revisor of statutes instruction; repealing certain provisions relating to duties of the county board residential and community support programs, residential services for children with severed emotional disturbance quality measures, federal earnings, maintenance of effort and reports and sanctions, and maintenance of effort for certain mental health services

ARTICLE 24 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to and modifying and transferring certain appropriations to the commissioner of human services for children and economic assistance grants and management, health care grants, health care management, continuing care grants, continuing care management, state operated services, to the commissioner of health for health protection, pandemic influenza preparedness, HIV/AIDS prevention and policy compliance and quality, to the veterans nursing homes board, to health related licensing boards including the board of chiropractic
examiners, board of dentistry, board of medical practice, board of physical
therapy and emergency medical services board; providing for the appropriation of food stamp bonus awards to the commissioner of human services; authorizing the commissioner of human services to accept additional funding from other that state funds; by the central collection unit to be deposited in the state systems account; providing for the sunset of uncodified language; repealing the effective date for the medical education endowment fund
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