1.1A bill for an act1.2relating to human services; modifying a nursing facility rate provision; amending 1.3Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 256B.431, subdivision 35.1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:1.5    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 256B.431, subdivision 35, is amended to 1.6read:1.7    Subd. 35. Exclusion of raw food cost adjustment. For rate years beginning on 1.8or after July 1, 2001, in calculating a nursing facility's operating cost per diem for the 1.9purposes of constructing comparing to an array, determining a median, or otherwise 1.10performing a other statistical measure of nursing facility payment rates to be used to 1.11determine future rate increasesadjustments under this section, section 
         256B.434, or any 1.12other section, the commissioner shall exclude adjustments for raw food costs under 1.13subdivision 2b, paragraph (h), that are related to providing special diets based on religious 1.14beliefs.