<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 256B.431, subdivision 35.<br/>
<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:<br/>
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<a id="bill.0.1.0"></a><a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 256B.431, subdivision 35, is amended to <br/>
<a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>read:<br/>
<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var>    Subd. 35. <b>Exclusion of raw food cost adjustment.</b> For rate years beginning on <br/>
<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>or after July 1, 2001, in calculating a nursing facility's operating cost per diem for the <br/>
<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>purposes of constructing comparing to an array, determining a median, or otherwise <br/>
<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>performing a other statistical measure of nursing facility payment rates to be used to <br/>
<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>determine future rate increases adjustments under this section, section 
         <statute_ref>256B.434</statute_ref>, or any <br/>
<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>other section, the commissioner shall exclude adjustments for raw food costs under <br/>
<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>subdivision 2b, paragraph (h), that are related to providing special diets based on religious <br/>
<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>beliefs. <br/>