2E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Requiring the commissioner of public safety to create a grant process for crisis intervention team training for local police and sheriff departments; specifying consultation and training requirements; requiring sheriffs and local corrections to use a mental health screening tool approved by the commissioner of corrections in consultation with the commissioner of human services and local correction staff to identify persons with mental illness; providing for a county jail reentry project to promote public safety, prevent recidivism and promote successful reintegration of individuals identified as having mental illness into the community, specifying grant application and program components; requiring the commissioner of corrections to develop a fair, firm and consistent protocol for inmates to have an opportunity to be released from disciplinary confinement in a timely matter; appropriating money to the commissioner of corrections for the county jail reentry projects grant program, to the commissioner of human services to fund discharge planning for offenders with serious and persistent mental illness, to the supreme court to develop and implement standards for mental health courts and to the commissioner of public safety for grants to local police departments for crisis intervention training

ARTICLE 2 - CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH

Authorizing and providing for children's mental health grants to assist counties, Indian tribes, children's collaboratives and mental health providers in providing services to children with emotional disturbances and their families, specifying certain grant application and reporting requirements; requiring mental health training for child foster care providers; providing intervention collaborative services for high risk children; increasing rates for children's therapeutic services and supports under the medical assistance (MA) children's therapeutic services and supports program; requiring the commissioner of human services to convene a children's mental health work group and to report to the legislature by a certain date; providing for trauma focused evidence based practices grants for eligible organizations; requiring the commissioner to allocate amounts to counties for costs of funding respite care; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services to develop and implement evidence based practice in children's mental health care and treatment, the early intervention collaborative program, for childhood trauma grants and respite care

ARTICLE 3 - MISCELLANEOUS

Creating a loan forgiveness program for individuals employed by a nonprofit agency providing mental health services for cultural or ethnic minority clients; authorizing the commissioner of health to make grants, defining qualified education loan, specifying eligibility and providing for disbursements; requiring county boards to provide or contract for sufficient community support services to meet the needs of adults having an acute episode regardless of insurance status, requiring the community support services program to promote mental health stabilization and increase functioning, defining community support services, requiring the use of all available funding streams and requiring the commissioner to collect data on community support services programs; providing for examiners for state residents admitted to bordering states; requiring the commissioner of human services to make grants to nonprofit organizations to ensure culturally competent mental health services are provided to individuals in the state; making individuals in correctional facilities diagnosed with mental illness eligible for general assistance medical care for a certain period of time from the date of release from confinement; requiring the commissioner of human services to fund a Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) and children's mental health pilot project to measure the effect of children¿s identified mental health needs on MFIP participants ability to obtain and retain employment, specifying certain project components and evaluation requirements; requiring the commissioner to consult stakeholders for evidence based practices implementation; requiring the office of enterprise technology in consultation with the commissioner of human services to provide televideo conferencing under certain conditions, specifying eligibility; requiring the commissioner of human services to fund up to a certain number of dual diagnosis programs for high risk adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse problems; requiring the commissioner of human services to explore in consultation with the office of higher education and provide to the legislature different options for ensuring higher education students carry health insurance; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for community health programs, suicide intervention and prevention grants and culturally competent mental health services grants, to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the Bridges rental housing assistance program, to the commissioner of human services for the MFIP and children's mental health pilot project, to the office of enterprise technology for televideo conferencing and the commissioner of human services for the dual diagnosis demonstration project

ARTICLE 4 - MENTAL HEALTH FUNDING

Modifying and expanding mental health services funding provisions for medical assistance (MA) coverage, general assistance medical care (GAMC) and MinnesotaCare; increasing rates for adult rehabilitative mental health services and children's therapeutic services and support services; modifying diagnostic assessment reimbursement rates; modifying payments for mental health services, mental health provider travel time and mental health telemedicine; allowing reimbursements for diagnostic assessments; modifying provisions relating to general assistance medical mental health coverage; including mental health coverage under certain limited benefits coverage for single adults and households without children; requiring the commissioner of human services to increase certain reimbursement rates; requiring the commissioner of human services to seek federal approval to expand medical assistance to include certain mental health services; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for the funding of mobile mental health crisis services and the implementation of the mental health services outcomes and tracking system and to the commissioner of health to fund the suicide prevention program
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