1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; modifying recovery of money requirements by 
1.3 	adding group residential housing;amending Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 
1.4 	256.019, subdivision 1.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 256.019, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.7 		Subdivision 1.Retention rates. When an assistance recovery amount is collected 
1.8 	and posted by a county agency under the provisions governing public assistance programs 
1.9 	including general assistance medical care, general assistance, group residential housing,
1.10 	and Minnesota supplemental aid, the county may keep one-half of the recovery made by 
1.11 	the county agency using any method other than recoupment. For medical assistance, if 
1.12 	the recovery is made by a county agency using any method other than recoupment, the 
1.13 	county may keep one-half of the nonfederal share of the recovery. For MinnesotaCare, if 
1.14 	the recovery is collected and posted by the county agency, the county may keep one-half 
1.15 	of the nonfederal share of the recovery.
1.16 	This does not apply to recoveries from medical providers or to recoveries begun 
1.17 	by the Department of Human Services' Surveillance and Utilization Review Division, 
1.18 	State Hospital Collections Unit, and the Benefit Recoveries Division or, by the attorney 
1.19 	general's office, or child support collections. In the food stamp or food support program, 
1.20 	the nonfederal share of recoveries in the federal tax offset program only will be divided 
1.21 	equally between the state agency and the involved county agency.