Relating to human services; modifying mental health provisions

ARTICLE 1 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY

Authorizing the 911 system to include a referral to mental health crisis teams; requiring the commissioner of public safety to create a grant process for crisis intervention team training for local police and sheriff departments; specifying training requirements; providing for a county jail reentry project to promote public safety, prevent recidivism and promote successful reintegration of certain individuals into the community, providing grants to county boards and specifying application requirements; 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

Requiring the commissioner of human services to provide early intervention collaborative services to children at high risk for child maltreatment, substance abuse, mental illness and serious and violent offending; certifying foster children eligibility for medical assistance (MA) until age 21; providing a rate increase for children's therapeutic services and supports under the medical assistance program; extending foster care benefits up to age 21

ARTICLE 3 - MISCELLANEOUS MENTAL HEALTH

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; modifying certain suicide prevention plan requirements; modifying the requirement for licensed professional clinical counseling by requiring mental health professionals to be licensed professional clinical counselors (LPCC), making conforming amendments; modifying standards for intensive residential rehabilitative mental health services; modifying provider entity standards for crisis stabilization services purposes; modifying the drug formulary committee membership, requiring vacancy notice and posting by the commissioner of human services on the web site and modifying mental illness prescription prior authorization requirements; modifying general assistance medical care (GAMC) eligibility determination requirements for individuals in a correctional facility diagnosed with a mental illness; requiring the commissioner to work with Hennepin county to establish a mental health fatality review team and resource panel pilot project to review adult mental health facilities occurring in Hennepin county during or after contact with law enforcement, courts, or corrections systems, specifying duties, membership and project requirements, requiring evaluation and reports to the legislature, governor, attorney general, supreme and district courts and county board; requiring the commissioner to consult stakeholders for evidence based practices implementation, 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 and to study medical assistance mental health reimbursement methods that interfere with best practices; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for suicide intervention and prevention grants, dual diagnosis demonstration projects and for the adult mental health fatality review team pilot to be transferred to Hennepin county and appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the Bridges rental housing assistance program

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 provider rates for adult rehabilitative mental health services, children's therapeutic services and support services, community mental health center services and crisis 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 critical access mental health rate increases for certain services by community mental health center; modifying provisions relating to general assistance medical mental health coverage to include certain children's therapeutic services and support, adult rehabilitative mental health services, or community mental health services; modifying other health care conditions under the MinnesotaCare program; expanding certain prior provider rate increases to include certain community mental health center services and crisis services

ARTICLE 5 - EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT

Requiring the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to fund special projects to provide employment support to certain people with mental illness; appropriating money to the commissioner to fund special projects focused on providing employment support and for the extended employment serious mental illness program

ARTICLE 6 - EMPLOYEE RELATIONS; HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE

Modifying health insurance benefit plans under the public employee insurance program and dependent coverage provisions; expanding probationary period for mental health services

ARTICLE 7 - EDUCATION-RELATED MENTAL HEALTH PROVISION

Modifying certain educational based mental health provisions; expanding legitimate exemptions for compulsive attendance purposes; modifying certain special education requirements for placement of children with and without disabilities eligibility for a summer school program; modifying safe school levy requirements to pay for the costs of mental health crisis intervention team training for peace officers and sheriffs serving as liaisons; requiring the commissioner of human services in consultation with the office of higher education to provide options for higher education student health insurance programs, requiring report to the legislature; requiring the commissioner of education to provide grants to school districts to develop a service delivery system for transition-aged youth and young adults with emotional or behavioral difficulties; specifying certain program criteria and funding requirements
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