Relating to state government; making changes to health and human services

ARTICLE 1 - LICENSING

Modifying certain services permitted to be provided by a human services license holder; modifying the bed limit for adult foster care licensees including roomers and boarders and allowing more beds under condition of state rate reduction adoption, specifying conditions and requirement for more beds allowance, allowing commissioner of human services (DHS) to grant use of alternate overnight supervision technology for adult foster care license holders; requiring adult foster care license holders to comply with certain data privacy and security provisions; modifying certain background check requirements relating to adult foster care programs; providing for the commissioner to recover costs for certain required background studies; adjusting certain license holder record keeping requirements relating to background studies initiated through commissioner of human services online system; requiring commissioner to request all federal approvals and waiver amendments to disability home and community-based waivers; repealing medical assistance (MA) services for persons with developmental disabilities adult foster care capacity to serve five persons, certain background study requirements and certain caregiver licensing requirements relating to communicable diseases

ARTICLE 2 - MFIP/CHILD CARE/ADULT SUPPORTS/FRAUD PREVENTION

Modifying certain financial eligibility provisions relating to child care assistance; amending certain child care provider payment requirements; specifying certain uses for child care services grants and family child care technical assistance grants; modifying school readiness service agreements (SRSA) provider and family eligibility, requiring previously selected providers to obtain a rating using a certain instrument according to certain timelines established by the commissioner of human services (DHS); authorizing home visitors to be employment and training service providers for certain Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) participants; expanding the availability of human services agency hearings; clarifying commissioner authority relating to human services fraud prevention investigations; increasing the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) transitional standard, expanding hardship extension criteria for ill or incapacitated participants and hard-to-employ participants, modifying certain Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) employment plan requirements, modifying certain family violence waiver criteria, requiring caregiver development of certain employment, family stabilization services and education plans under certain conditions, modifying Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) employment services participant return to work requirements after having a child, modifying services eligibility criteria for participants of the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) and diversionary work program (DWP), modifying cooperation with services requirements for participants eligible for family stabilization services, modifying certain sanction criteria and specifying certain duties of county agency or employment service providers, modifying Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) work participation cash benefits, defining caseload reduction credit (CRC) and temporary aid to needy families (TANF) participation rate target for performance base funds purposes under the consolidated fund, modifying consolidated fund final allocation adjustments based on performance for counties and tribes, modifying certain diversionary work program employment services referral content requirements, modifying certain eligibility for the diversionary work program (DWP); permitting the extension of adoption assistance agreement until the child reaches a certain age; providing for hearings to determine certain department of human services (DHS) claims; instructing the commissioner of human service to extend payment for certain American Indian child welfare projects; repealing a community living adjustment for certain persons residing in or eligible to reside in group homes

ARTICLE 3 - STATE-OPERATED SERVICES/MINNESOTA SEX OFFENDER PROGRAM

Defining certain terms relating to the care of clients in state facilities; requiring commissioner of human services (DHS) to determine available health coverage from a health plan company for services provided to clients admitted to state-operated community-based programs; requiring commissioner to determine what amount clients served in regional treatment centers and nursing homes are able to pay; modifying financial responsibility of relatives of individuals receiving services from community-based services and regional treatment centers,amending pay schedule of relatives; modifying certain exceptions to financial responsibilities for counties regarding patients in regional treatment centers and state nursing facilities; defining certain terms relating the Minnesota sex offender program; establishing a certain payment process for care and treatment in the Minnesota sex offender program, authorizing commissioner to order the client or guardian to pay for care in certain situations, specifying the state's claim process against the estate of a deceased client, specifying financial liability of county and certain reimbursements to counties for Minnesota sex offender program clients participation; modifying the Minnesota extended treatment options program to serve Minnesotans who have developmental disabilities; authorizing commissioner to develop an array of community-based mental health services for patients committed to the Anoka-Metro regional treatment center; repealing certain procedures for payment of care and treatment in public institutions and an exemption from the statute of limitations for certain claims against a deceased client in a public institution

ARTICLE 4 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Modifying certain provisions relating to health information technology and
infrastructure; defining certain terms; establishing an e-health advisory committee replacing e-health information technology and infrastructure advisory committee; modifying certain criteria hospitals and health care providers must meet when implementing electronic health record systems; requiring commissioner of health to ensure that state implementation meets certain federal requirements; requiring commissioner to ensure coordination of information technology between state, regional and national levels of government; requiring commissioner to coordinate statewide responses to certain ongoing federal changes; authorizing commissioner of human services to apply for federal funding and recommend possible policy change ideas to legislature; requiring commissioner of health to request the submission of data by certain providers, dispensers, group purchasers and electronic data intermediaries regarding the use of health information technology, prohibiting commissioner from collecting
data identifying patients; modifying purpose of electronic health record system revolving account and loan program; modifying eligibility of the program; specifying a process for commissioner of health to make loans to eligible provider groups, defining and modifying definitions to certain terms relating to the electronic prescription drug program, modifying certain requirements for electronic prescribing; requiring commissioner of health to develop a uniform formulary exception document in connection with the electronic prescription drug program, instructing commissioner to identify and outline how best to standardize drug prior authorization request transactions; establishing medication therapy management services for certain enrollees; modifying license fees for hospitals and nursing homes and inspection fees for public pools and spas; modifying the cost of duplicate license fees

ARTICLE 5 - HEALTH CARE

Requiring sellers of reinsurance meet qualifications of an insurer; permitting health maintenance organizations to contract to provide reinsurance to health insurance or nonprofit health service plan corporations; modifying certain transfers from the commissioner of human services (DHS) to the medical education and research fund; modifying certain human services performance payment provisions; establishing a public assistance reporting information system (PARIS) to determine eligibility for individuals applying for certain public benefits; requiring commissioner to comply with requirements in the American recovery and reinvestment act relating to American Indians; instructing commissioner to include certain areas with eligible but unenrolled children as recipients of outreach grants; requiring charter schools to provide information to each of its students regarding applying for Minnesota health care programs; authorizing commissioner to establish a pilot project to reduce the total cost to the state for dental services provided to enrollees of the state public health care programs by reducing hospital emergency room costs for preventable and nonemergency dental services; reducing payment for fee-for-service admissions made to hospitals for inpatient services before third party liability and spenddown; prohibiting medical assistance (MA) payments for certain hospital-acquired conditions and certain treatments; providing a temporary rate increase for certain hospitals; requiring commissioner to reimburse hospitals for the fee increase in the early hearing detection and intervention program; authorizing commissioner to establish certain performance thresholds for health care providers to become vendors of medical care; modifying the medical assistance (MA) eligibility determination of certain disability requirements; modifying medical assistance (MA) and MinnesotaCare eligibility requirements relating to certain asset limitations for individuals and families and families and children, specifying certain asset disclosure requirements to the local agency at the time of application and at the time of an eligibility redetermination, modifying the reduction of excess assets for eligibility requirements for medical assistance (MA); specifying certain medical assistance (MA) eligibility requirements for the treatment for colorectal cancer; modifying the definition of reasonable expenses incurred for necessary medical or remedial care for institutionalized persons; specifying the prohibition of asset transfers into pooled trusts for institutionalized persons; permitting certain period of ineligibility standards for certain uncompensated transfers on behalf of institutionalized person to be eliminated under certain circumstances; modifying the eligibility for medical assistance (MA) for certain noncitizens; modifying the coverage of certain physicians services under medical assistance (MA); instructing commissioner to establish a dental subcommittee to operate under the health services policy committee; specifying certain limits to medical assistance (MA) coverage for adult dental services; providing for certain dental services for adults covered by medical assistance (MA); modifying coverage of nurse anesthetist services under medical assistance (MA); authorizing medical assistance (MA) coverage of drugs prescribed by physician's assistants under certain circumstances; modifying acquisition costs of certain drugs relating to medical assistance (MA) payment rates; requiring commissioner of human services (DHS) to establish a pilot project under medical assistance (MA) for an intensive medication therapy management program for certain patients with multiple chronic conditions and needing a high number of medications; modifying medical transportation requirements and reimbursements; specifying medical assistance (MA) coverage for ambulance services; establishing commissioner prior authorization of diagnostic imaging services be in order to have it covered by medical assistance (MA); modifying the payment of certain special education services covered under medical assistance (MA); authorizing commissioner to accept data received from the social security administration as and application for medical assistance (MA); clarifying the definition of medical assistance (MA) as it relates to certain claims against estates, specifying what a medical assistance (MA) recipient's estate must include; modifying payment of a claim against an estate of a surviving spouse that did not receive medical assistance (MA), specifying certain controlling provisions related to estates, authorizing intervention of commissioner relating to the recovery of medical assistance (MA); authorizing certain voluntary intergovernmental transfer payments to certain clinics and hospitals, specifying certain duties of commissioner relating to Hennepin county medical center and Regions hospital supplemental payment rate determinations for medical assistance (MA) purposes, contingency provision; authorizing additional medical assistance (MA) payments under certain conditions; requiring reporting of additional certified public expenditures, requiring commissioner of human services (DHS) to reduce a health plan's emergency room utilization rate for medical assistance (MA) and MinnesotaCare enrollees by a certain amount, specifying return of withheld funds, requiring the withhold to continue for a certain amount of time; modifying commissioner annual transfers to the medical education and research fund and capitation rates; modifying certain demonstration projects involving alternative services for elderly and disabled persons; modifying certain facility and provider reimbursement rates for births; reducing medical assistance (MA) reimbursement rates for certain physician and professional services, exceptions; requiring certain reductions for managed care and county-based purchasing plans payments; requiring medical assistance (MA) reimbursement for basic services be reduced by a certain percentage, specifying exceptions; modifying the payment rate for general assistance basic care services and for physician and professional services under medical assistance (MA); extending MinnesotaCare eligibility to certain chiropractic services, to children and families with incomes beyond a certain percentage of federal poverty guidelines, to certain families failing to submit renewal forms and related documentation, to a certain percentage of the federal poverty guidelines, and the premium exemption; expanding certain exemptions to the prohibition on employer-subsidized health care coverage for MinnesotaCare; providing for online MinnesotaCare application, instructing commissioner and local agencies to develop a streamlined application and enrollment process for applicants to medical assistance (MA) and MinnesotaCare; reducing MinnesotaCare payments to managed care plans; establishing annual filing requirements for supplemental needs trusts; modifying the liability of the husband and wife regarding claims involving public institutions, medical assistance (MA), general assistance and county relief of poor; transferring a certain amount of the health care access fund appropriations to the University of Minnesota to commissioner for purposes for a medical assistance (MA) prepayment demonstration project; instructing commissioners of human services (DHS) and health to determine the amount of excess surplus in each health maintenance organization and county based purchasing plan; instructing commissioner of human services (DHS) to reduce the general assistance medical care capitation rate paid by each health maintenance organization and county-based purchasing plan; requiring commissioner to establish an asthma demonstration project for a certain number of American Indian students in certain Minnesota cities; instructing commissioner to develop and provide to the legislature regarding claims and utilization data involving medical assistance (MA) general assistance medical care and MinnesotaCare; establishing a COBRA premium state subsidy for certain qualifying beneficiaries; requiring commissioner to seek necessary federal approval for the elimination of depreciation of self-employed farmers in determining income eligibility for MinnesotaCare; repealing a Minnesota health care programs eligibility renewal notice mailing requirement and an obsolete asset requirement provision for MinnesotaCare

ARTICLE 6 - TECHNICAL

Making certain technical corrections

ARTICLE 7 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

Modifying the requirement for licensed professional clinical counseling by requiring mental health professionals to be licensed professional clinical counselors (LPCC), making conforming amendments; requiring commissioner of human services (DHS) to monitor certain drug and alcohol treatment procedures and data collection; specifying local agency duties regarding chemical dependency services; authorizing commissioner to enter into agreements with eligible vendors who provide chemical dependency treatment; modifying certain agreements the state has with American Indians regarding chemical dependency services; requiring commissioner to publish maximum rates for vendors of the consolidated chemical dependency treatment fund by a certain date; instructing commissioner to develop a recommendation for legislation developing a new rate methodology for the consolidated chemical dependency treatment fund; modifying standards for intensive residential rehabilitative mental health services; modifying provider entity standards for crisis stabilization services purposes; including licensed mental health professional counselors as a qualified provider under medical assistance (MA) under certain conditions; modifying date medical assistance (MA) will begin to cover treatment for foster care services; modifying certain services excluded from medical assistance (MA); permitting commissioner to approve a crisis response provider based on an alternative plan in certain situations; clarifying the meaning of qualified professional as it relates to licensed professional clinical counseling; creating an autism spectrum disorder task force, specifying membership, requirements and duties, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; establishing a state-county chemical health care home pilot project to redesign the structural relationship between the state and counties to promote greater accountability, productivity and results in the delivery of state chemical dependency services, specifying certain requirements of the pilot project, requiring a report to legislature

ARTICLE 8 - CONTINUING CARE

Modifying certain provisions relating to nursing home resident reimbursement classification; modifying approval of certain exceptions to the moratorium on certification of nursing home beds; modifying certain interpretation and enforcement of the home care bill of rights; imposing a moratorium on the issuing of certain licenses to certain child and adult foster care providers, establishing a community residential setting license for certain foster care providers; authorizing commissioner of human services (DHS) to establish payment rates for day training and habilitation services; permitting commissioner to consider clients who work within and benefit from habilitation programs employees for federal tax purposes; modifying the state medical review team process by requiring commissioner of human services (DHS) applicant assistance with medical assistance (MA) disability determination documentation; establishing interagency data exchange between the department of health and the ombudsmen for mental health and developmental disabilities; modifying the department of human services (DHS) consumer support grant program; authorizing certain long-term care options counseling and certain additional consumer information and assistance options for older Minnesotans; referring certain medical assistance (MA) applicants without apparent eligibility or disabilities to the state medical review team of commissioner for disability determination; modifying medical assistance coverage for home health services, private duty nursing, and personal care assistance services; modifying certain home care services covered under medical assistance (MA), defining certain terms, specifying covered and noncovered services, authorizing certain exceptions to commissioner authorization requirements, requiring certain home care providers to refer certain recipients to medicare providers, requiring commissioner to establish a quality assurance process for program integrity and provide oversight for enrolled providers; modifying certain authorization and review procedures of home care services; modifying certain home health agency services and private duty nursing services; amending certain assessment and authorization procedures for personal care assistant services; modifying certain self-directed budget requirements in relation to self-directed supports, providing for enrollment and evaluation requirements for utilizing the self directed supports option; establishing a personal care assistance program, defining certain terms, specifying covered and noncovered services, providing for assessments for personal care assistance services and instructing the assessor to provide service, support planning and referrals based on the assessments, specifying contents of a service plan and personal care assistance care plan, requiring personal care assistance plan have communication with the recipients physician, defining responsible party, specifying the duties of the responsible party and delegation authority, specifying certain personal care assistant requirements, prescribing documentation of provided personal care assistance, establishing qualifications and duties of a qualified professional, defining flexible use, specifying medical assistance (MA) payments for shared personal care assistance services, instructing commissioner to provide a rate system for shared personal care assistance services, permitting the recipient of personal care assistance services to use a fiscal intermediary to assist the recipient in the paying and accounting for medically necessary services, specifying certain requirements and duties and prescribing administration of the personal care assistance choice option, specifying certain requirements for enrollment of personal assistance provider agencies, providing for the annual review for personal care providers, specifying certain enrollment requirements for certain terminated personal care assistance provider agencies, specifying certain general duties of a personal care assistance provider agency, requiring personal care assistance provider agencies to comply with background studies, requiring agencies to comply with certain communicable disease prevention policies and procedures and ventilator training requirements, specifying certain agency required documentation, instructing commissioner, counties and personal care assistance providers to provide transitional assistance to comply with certain new requirements, requiring service change notices to individuals affected by the changes in services; modifying certain long-term care consultation services provisions and alternative care program provisions; modifying certain provisions concerning the Medicaid waiver for elderly services; modifying distribution of funding for home and community based waiver services; establishing essential community supports grants within the Seniors Agenda for Independent Living (SAIL) Projects; establishing a new residential support services to serve persons with developmental disabilities (DD); requiring commissioner to establish statewide priorities for individuals on the waiting list for developmental disabilities (DD) waiver services; instructing commissioner to impose foster care rate limits; modifying certain post-PERA pension costs for certain nursing facilities; modifying the calculation of certain nursing facilities planned closure rate adjustments; modifying the phase-in and implementation of rebased operating payment rates for nursing facilities; requiring commissioner to generate statewide priorities for individuals on certain waivered services waiting lists; modifying single bed payments for medical assistance recipients; modifying assessment and reassessment procedures of recipients of home and community-based service waivers for the disabled; establishing certain provider qualifications for home and community-based waivers providing services to seniors and individuals with disabilities, requiring the commissioner provide rate setting methodologies; modifying certain intermediate care facility for developmental disabilities (ICF/MR) service contract requirements for medical assistance (MA) purposes; providing for ICF/MR rate decreases for certain facilities; modifying certain managed care plans relating to dental access grant prepayment demonstration projects; establishing certain special needs that would enable certain people to receive supplemental aid who do not qualify according to the state standards of assistance; designating health department responsibility for assessing and investigating home care provider child maltreatment; clarifying department of health responsibility for residential facilities federally certified as intermediate care facilities serving persons with development disabilities (DD); instructing the commissioner to develop alternative services to personal care assistance for persons with mental health and other behavioral challenges; requiring commissioner to give notice of upcoming changes; modifying certain COLA compensation requirements for certain providers; requiring commissioner to decrease grants, allocations, reimbursement rates, or rate limits by a certain amount by a certain date; requiring report to legislature regarding the changes to the personal care assistance program; instructing commissioner to consult with certain individuals and groups to develop a single set of standards governing services for people with disabilities receiving services under the home and community-based waiver services program; requiring the commissioner to consult with certain groups and individuals to develop a common service menu for community-based waiver programs; instructing commissioner to consult with certain groups and individuals to monitor progress of certain provisions in the intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities (DD) report; requiring commissioner to consult with certain groups and individuals to maximize the availability of affordable housing for persons with disabilities or who need care assistance; specifying revisor instruction; repealing certain provisions relating to certain county responsibility for nonfederal medical assistance costs, county nursing home payment rate adjustments, the quality assurance commission, personal care assistant services, and the medicare maximization program

ARTICLE 9 - STATE-COUNTY RESULTS, ACCOUNTABILITY AND SERVICE DELIVERY REFORM ACT

Establishing the State-County Results, Accountability and Service Delivery Reform Act; defining certain terms; establishing a steering committee on performance and outcome reforms to develop a uniform process to establish and review performance and outcome standards for all essential human services based on the current level of resources available and to develop appropriate reporting measures and a uniform accountability process for responding to a county or human service authority failure to make adequate progress on achieving performance measures; specifying composition of steering committee; establishing commissioner power to impose certain remedies to meet certain performance outcomes, specifying certain remedies and required conditions prior to imposing remedies; establishing the State-County Results, Accountability and Service Delivery Redesign Council, specifying council membership and duties; authorizing counties to establish a service delivery authority to redesign the delivery of some or all essential services, specifying process of establishing a service delivery authority, establishing duties of a service delivery authority; appropriating money

ARTICLE 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Modifying certain health department fees relating to well permits for property owners, annual registration fees for facilities with ionizing radiation-producing equipment, inspection fees for public pools and spas; requiring and authorizing the issuance of licenses for childrens camps; defining and modifying the definition of certain terms relating to the lead poisoning prevention act; modifying certain licensing provisions for lead firms and professionals; requiring that certain rules regulating lead work standards and methods comply with the toxic substances control act; amending certain lead related licensure provisions and training course requirements; modifying certain lead reduction grantee requirements related to the lead abatement program; requiring commissioner of health to contract with a nonprofit organization to provide support services for families with children who are deaf or have a hearing loss; defining and modifying definitions of certain terms concerning the certification of environmental laboratories; modifying authorization and rules, establishing standards and adjusting certain fees for the certification of environmental laboratories; authorizing commissioner of health to accredit certain laboratories that test samples under certain programs, specifying certain laboratories out of this state pay additional fees, specifying required application procedure for laboratory accreditation, establishing fee payment and refund policy as it relates to laboratory accreditation, establishing accreditation implementation standards and effective date, establishing accreditation issuance and annual renewal procedure, providing for enforcement of the certification of environmental laboratories under the Health Enforcement Consolidation Act of 1993; modifying certain fees for the dispensing of hearing instruments; defining youth camp, requiring youth camps to be licensed, providing for the renewal of youth camp licenses, modifying food manager certification, imposing certain fees for youth camps, establishing certain youth camp posting requirements, modifying certain exemptions; defining special event recreational camping area, modifying license renewal and fee assessment procedure for manufactured home parks and recreational camping areas, establishing fees for special event camping areas, modifying certain department of health plan review application procedures for manufactured home parks and recreational camping areas, specifying certain rules for special event camping areas; establishing a colorectal cancer screening demonstration project to provide screening to uninsured and underinsured women and men, specifying certain medical assistance (MA) eligibility requirements for the treatment for colorectal cancer, requiring commissioner of health to provide grants to the Hennepin county medical center and MeritCare Bemidji for a colorectal screening demonstration project, specifying certain services and applicant eligibility requirements, requiring commissioner of health in consultation with the university of Minnesota school of public health to evaluate the demonstration project and make certain recommendations, requiring report to the legislature by a certain date; requiring commissioner to report to the legislature regarding the exposure pathways for perfluorochemicals; requiring commissioner to provide a grant to the Hennepin county medical center for a one-year feasibility pilot project for cancer surveillance; specifying commissioner prioritize smoking cessation in certain communities; authorizing commissioner of public safety along with the Minnesota ambulance association to create the parameters of the medical response unit reimbursement pilot program; instructing commissioner of health to review proposed regulations on body art technicians and establishments; providing for apportionment of the costs incurred by the health department from conducting investigations into unlicensed hearing aid dispensers; repealing certain provisions including prohibiting department of health from collecting fees from state and local governments concerning well borings, repealing the position of interim lead control worker from the lead poisoning prevention act, repealing the primary license and the annual license provisions in relation to manufactured home parks and camping areas

ARTICLE 11 - HEALTH-RELATED FEES

Modifying certain health-related license fees; modifying certain provisions relating to schedule II and III controlled substances prescription electronic reporting system and data access; repealing certain social worker fee reduction provisions

ARTICLE 12 - FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Adjusting appropriations to the department of human services (DHS) including revenue and pass through grants, children and economic assistance grants, Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) and diversionary work program (DWP) grants, Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) child care assistance grants, general assistance grants, Minnesota supplemental aid grants, group residential housing grants, basic healthcare grants, MinnesotaCare health care access, medical assistance basic health care, families and children, medical assistance basic health care; elderly and disabled, general assistance medical care, continuing care grants, medical assistance long-term care facilities, medical assistance long-term care waivers and chemical dependency entitlement grants

ARTICLE 13 - APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the department of human services (DHS) for system projects; transferring money from the HealthMatch account, certain nonfederal share department transfers; specifying certain reporting requirements for certain allowable temporary aid for needy families (TANF)/maintenance of effort (MOE) block grant activities; permitting commissioner of human services (DHS) to claim a certain amount of working family credit expenditures as temporary aid to needy families (TANF)/maintenance of effort (MOE); specifying certain amounts of temporary aid for needy families (TANF) fund amounts transfer to the federal child care and development fund; instructing commissioner to apply for and claim the allowable federal matching funds for state expenditures on behalf of family stabilization services; specifying certain funds available to the food support administration under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to be appropriated to commissioner for implementing food support benefit increases, increased eligibility determinations and outreach; establishing the availability of temporary aid for needy families (TANF) contingency funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and requiring commissioner to request funds to meet certain requirements, specifying amounts spent for agency management purposes such as financial operations, legal and regulatory operations, management operations including base level funding modification and information technology operations, for revenue and pass-through revenue expenditures, for children and economic assistance grants such as Minnesota family investment program (MFIP)/diversionary work program (DWP) grants, support services grants; modifying the appropriation to the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) consolidated fund; authorizing commissioner to apply for temporary aid for needy families (TANF) emergency fund grants for subsidized employment activities; specifying amount spent for supported work for Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) recipients, specifying base level funding modification; specifying amounts allocated for integrated services program funding, to the temporary aid for needy families (TANF) emergency fund, for Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) child care assistance grants, basic sliding fee child care assistance grants including base level funding modification, school readiness service agreements, calendar year 2010 basic sliding fee child care assistance grants, child care development grants including family, friend and neighbor grants and quality rating systems, statewide child-care provider training, coaching, consultation and supports, a voluntary quality rating system, child support enforcement grants, children's services grants with base modification including privatized adoption grants, adoption assistance incentive grants, adoption assistance and relative custody assistance, children and community services grants including a targeted case management temporary funding adjustment, general assistance grants including the setting of a general assistance standard and for emergency general assistance, Minnesota supplemental aid funds, group residential housing grants, children's mental health grants and other children and economic assistance grants including fraud prevention grants, homeless youth funds, supportive housing services, community action grants with a base modification; appropriating funds from the federal government for existing programs such as emergency food and shelter programs, homeless prevention, commodity assistance programs and senior nutrition programs, children and economic assistance management including the children and economic assistance administration with base modification, school readiness service agreements and children and economic assistance operations, basic health care grants including MinnesotaCare grants, medical assistance (MA) basic health care grants-families and children to be put towards medical education research costs, a newborn screening fee and a local share payment modification, medical assistance basic health care grants the elderly and disabled, general assistance medical care grants (vetoed) and other grants including a community-based health care demonstration project, health care management with base funding modification including health care operations with health care access fund base funding modification, continuing care grants including aging and adult service grants with general fund base modification, alternative care grants including a general fund base adjustment, medical assistance grants; long-term care facilities, medical assistance long-term care waivers and home care grants, mental health grants, deaf and hard-of-hearing grants, chemical dependency entitlement grants, chemical dependency nonentitlement grants including a general fund base modification and other continuing care grants including a general fund base modification, continuing care management including a general fund base modification, state operated services including adult mental health services with a general fund base modification, Minnesota security hospital and Minnesota extended treatment option services and for Minnesota sex offender services; appropriating money to commissioner of health for community and family health promotion purposes including towards a newborn screening fee, support services for families with children who are deaf of have hearing loss, for local public health grants, colorectal screening, a feasibility pilot project for cancer surveillance, WIC program management information systems and temporary aid for needy families (TANF) appropriations including home visiting and nutritional services, decreasing racial and ethnic disparities in infant mortality rates, and the family home visiting grant program, providing for a general fund base adjustment, for policy quality and compliance including a community-based health care demonstration project, medical education and research cost federal compliance, autism clinical research and specifying a general fund base modification and for health protection and administrative support services; appropriating money to health related boards such as the boards of chiropractic examiners, dentistry, dietetic and nutrition practice, marriage and family therapy, medical practice, nursing, and nursing home administrators, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, podiatry, psychology, social work, veterinary medicine and behavioral health and therapy; appropriating money to the emergency medical services board including the longevity award and incentive program, the health professional services program and the comprehensive advanced life-support educational (CALS) program; appropriating money to the department of veterans affairs for a veterans paramedic apprenticeship program; appropriating money to department of public safety for a medical response unit reimbursement pilot program; appropriating money to council on disability; appropriating money to the ombudsman for mental health and developmental disabilities and to the ombudsperson for families; providing a second year grant to A Circle of Women for program services; prioritizing federal emergency services shelter grant funds for certain specific purposes; permitting commissioner of human services (DHS) to transfer certain unencumbered appropriation balances; modifying certain appropriations; instructing commissioners health and human services (DHS) to not use indirect costs to fund programs; specifying the expiration of uncodified language
(Ch. 79, 2009 - line item veto)