2E Creating the Minnesota responds medical reserve corps under the local public health act; adding volunteer protections for the Minnesota responds medical reserve corps volunteers; requiring a board of health receiving funding for emergency preparedness or pandemic influenza planning to participate in planning for emergency use of volunteer health professionals through the Minnesota responds medical reserve corps program of the department of health; authorizing and providing for certain written mutual aid agreements for deployment of paid employees and volunteers with other boards of health, other political subdivisions or tribal governments; authorizing the commissioner of health to accept grants for the emergency system for the advanced registration of volunteer health professionals and maintain a registry of volunteers; providing procedures for requests to the commissioner for health volunteers; providing for the status of volunteer health practitioners licensed in other states; modifying the definition of employee for workers compensation purposes; providing for interstate assistance by the national guard and specifying certain requirements for status of employment and workers compensation benefits; specifying employment limitations; authorizing local governments to provide interstate assistance under certain conditions
(Ch. 202, 2008)