1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; authorizing the licensure of four intermediate care 
1.3 	facilities for persons with developmental disabilities to replace one larger facility; 
1.4 	establishing a transition period rate; establishing the payment rate for the new 
1.5 	facilities; appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota 
1.6 	Statutes, chapter 252.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. [252.295] LICENSING EXCEPTION.
1.9 	(a) Notwithstanding section 252.294, the commissioner may license four six-bed, 
1.10 	level B intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities to replace a 
1.11 	32-bed facility in Brooklyn Park. The new facilities must be located in Hennepin County.
1.12 	(b) Notwithstanding section 256B.5012:
1.13 	(1) one of the new facilities must serve persons who require 24-hour nursing care 
1.14 	and are unable to leave the facility to receive day training and habilitation services. The 
1.15 	payment rate at this facility is $475.77;
1.16 	(2) one of the new facilities must serve persons who require 24-hour nursing care 
1.17 	and are able to leave the facility to receive day training and habilitation services. The 
1.18 	payment rate at this facility is $402.95;
1.19 	(3) two of the facilities must serve persons who require substantial nursing care and 
1.20 	are able to leave the facility to receive day training and habilitation services. The payment 
1.21 	rate at these facilities is $343.64; and
1.22 	(4) the existing facility must have a payment rate of $495.21 effective April 1, 
1.23 	2008, to December 31, 2008, subject to the rate adjustment provisions in Minnesota 
1.24 	Rules, part 9553.0041, subpart 13. 
2.1 	(c) The payment rates in paragraph (b), clauses (1) to (3), are effective until state 
2.2 	rate-setting adjustments occur in 2009 or until October 1, 2009, whichever occurs first.

2.3 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 2.4 	$....... is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of human services 
2.5 	for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007, for the purposes of section 1.