3E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - HEALTH CARE

Authorizing licensed physicians, advanced practice nurses and licensed psychologists to make a diagnosis and determination of attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for the purpose of identifying a child with a disability and eligible for and in need of special education instruction and services; requiring the commissioner of health to modify regulations for home care service providers to include certain home care aide tasks; "Grieving Parents Act", requiring hospitals, clinics and medical facilities having custody of a fetus following a miscarriage to provide written notification to the mother of the right to arrange for the burial or cremation of the fetus; permitting graduates of nonaccredited dental programs completing a clinical licensure examination and meeting certain applicant requirements to be granted a limited general dentist license by the board of dentistry; granting the commissioner of human services the authority to join and participate as a member in a legal entity developing and operating a statewide health information exchange; modifying certain medical assistance (MA) provisions; modifying certain eligibility requirements relating to homestead exclusions for individuals residing in a long term care facility; providing home equity limits for medical assistance (MA) payment of long term care services; clarifying asset verification provisions; modifying certain form and statement requirements for the treatment of annuities; expanding MA coverage for certain pregnant women; providing for exchange of long term care partnership policy and addition of a policy rider or endorsements under certain conditions; modifying eligibility for the Minnesota partnership for long term care program; modifying application and request requirements for MA eligibility; modifying medical assistance lien provisions; authorizing the commissioner of human services to enter into certain reciprocal agreements; modifying certain provisions relating to the treatment of income and assets of an institutionalized spouse, defining continuous period of institutionalization; modifying the payment of benefits from an annuity and certain prohibited transfers of assets; creating a cause of action for certain asset transfers, prescribing the process for filing cause of action; requiring the health services policy committee to recommend criteria for centers of excellence medical care aspects verification under certain conditions; modifying the medical assistance preferred drug list; modifying certain pharmacist medication therapy management services in ambulatory care settings and community health worker requirements for medical assistance (MA) and general assistance medical care (GAMC) coverages; revising requirements and procedures for county based purchasing for state health care programs including general assistance medical care (GAMC), medical assistance (MA) prepayment program and other prepaid health care programs in counties administered by the commissioner of human services, prohibiting contractual dispute mediation by a panel with Minnesota council of health plans representation, requiring a contract reprocurement or renewal schedule and a legislative report; modifying provisions relating to MA prepayment demonstration project, expanding service delivery requirements and modifying certain language assistance requirements to be provided for enrollees with limited English language proficiency (LEP) by demonstration providers; modifying dispute resolution mediation panel membership requirements; modifying certain MinnesotaCare enrollment requirements for general assistance medical care purposes; allowing certain claims against an estate; clarifying certain duties of the commissioner of health relating to county based purchasing for single-health plan managed care contracts; requiring a commissioner of human services evaluation regarding the alternative payment system reimbursement methodology for pension costs as a cause for nursing facilities converting from public to private ownership funding shortfalls, requiring a legislative report; requiring the commissioner of human services to study and submit a report to the legislature by a certain date on reducing rate disparities between nursing facilities in various regions of the state; providing a revisor instruction; repealing the exchange for long term care partnership policy addition of policy rider provision under the long term care partnership program and certain provisions relating to the expiration of a waiver of clinical examination for certain dentists and dental hygienists

ARTICLE 2 - MINNESOTA SEX OFFENDER PROGRAM

Providing for the classification of data relating to the preparation of a petition to commit an individual as a sexual psychopathic personality or sexually dangerous person; modifying the Minnesota sex offender program to include housing court-hold ordered persons and secure treatment facility or program residents; authorizing the commissioner of human services to establish, equip, maintain and operate the Minnesota state industries at any sex offender program facility, establishing a revolving fund and providing for disbursements from the fund, authorizing commissioner to borrow from the fund, providing for federal grant fund transfers, providing for patient wages; allowing sex offender treatment participants committed to the commissioner of corrections for incarceration and eligible for supervised release to elect to remain confined in a state correctional facility, specifying a process for election to continue confinement, specifying confinement terms, providing for no right to treatment and authorizing the commissioner of corrections to charge the county of financial responsibility for the costs of confinement and requiring existing appropriations department use for nonconfinement costs; providing for petitions for a reduction in custody of persons committed as mentally ill and dangerous and civil commitments, providing for appeal; requiring the commissioner to provide the judicial appeal panel with victim information, privacy requirement; authorizing county attorney data access in civil commitment proceedings; making conforming changes; requiring the commissioner of human services (DHS) to convene an interested parties working group to develop Minnesota sex offender program standards and guidelines, specifying standards requirements

ARTICLE 3 - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND LICENSING

Expanding commissioner of human services set aside licensure variance
conditions to include the corrections field; eliminating certain commissioner of human services federal fiscal allowances for the foster care program; modifying the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) eligibility provisions by clarifying licensed multiple vehicle loan value county agency determination; increasing the transitional standard and food portions; requiring employment plans or family stabilization services plan development and compliance for hardship extension categories eligibility maintenance; modifying the definition of work activity and specifying certain county notification requirements to participants in unpaid work experience; eliminating the self-employment investment demonstration program (SEID) from the definition of work activity and self employment activities; requiring educational plan school consultation; modifying family violence claim documentation requirements; prohibiting a county or tribe from imposing a residency requirement on families, exception, changing the MFIP funding performance base to be based on county or tribal temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) participation rate; clarifying diversionary work program (DWP) eligibility; modifying the effective date for the expiration of food support benefits;
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