4E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES POLICY PROVISIONS

Modifying adoption procedure; requiring permanency progress review for children in foster care; providing procedures for adoption of children under guardianship of the commissioner of human services; defining birth match data and various agency responsibilities; modifying the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) transitional standard; repealing the child maltreatment panel

ARTICLE 2 - SAFE PLACE FOR NEWBORNS

Establishing and providing for a safe place for newborns give life a chance immunity for hospitals, urgent care medical services, and licensed ambulance services; modifying legal time allowed for newborn relinquishment

ARTICLE 3 - ADOPTION ASSISTANCE

Providing adoption assistance for children under the guardianship of the commissioner of human services; establishing program administration; specifying assistance eligibility requirements, benefits, payments, and adoptive parent reporting responsibilities; specifying circumstances for agreement termination, assignment and extension of adoption assistance agreement, assistance overpayments, and appeals and hearings procedure; authorizing an interstate compact on adoption and medical assistance (MA); providing reimbursement of nonrecurring adoption expenses, certain agency costs, and purchase of service contracts

ARTICLE 4 - CHILD PROTECTION

Modifying the duty to ensure placement prevention and family reunification reasonable efforts statute by adding parental sexual abuse and predatory offender registration as conditions for defining a child in need of protection; changing the child protection provisions of the Juvenile Court Act to the juvenile protection provisions and defining scope of statute; specifying goals and court jurisdiction; modifying determining parentage; making paternity establishment hearings public and permitting court- ordered genetic testing; requiring juvenile treatment screenings to take place in a certain time period; allowing courts to order evaluations and assessments for parents for reunification purposes; requiring both parents to be engaged in child case planning; requiring timely court findings; requiring foster care court jurisdiction to continue to age 21; modifying findings by requiring identification of parents and relatives; requiring agency court reports regarding location of relatives; requiring personalized transition plan development as directed by the juvenile; allowing voluntary foster care for children over age 18 and requiring court hearing; establishing permanency proceedings

ARTICLE 5 - CHILD SUPPORT

Increasing the age maximum under the definition of American Indian child; requiring hospitals to aid new parents in completing the recognition of parentage form; clarifying the continuing exclusive jurisdiction for child support orders provision under the uniform interstate family support act; modifying certain child care child support provisions; clarifying continuing exclusive jurisdiction for child support orders provision under the uniform interstate family support act; requiring the commissioner to enter into a reciprocal agreement with Bermuda for child support obligation enforcement pursuant to federal law

ARTICLE 6 - TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

Making statutory technical and conforming changes; providing a disposition for children of arrested parents; specifying no determination of maltreatment for alleged perpetrators under a certain age; repealing the child maltreatment review panel, the adoption assistance program, interstate adoption compacts service payments, dispositions for children in need of protection or services or neglected and in foster care, welfare of children duties of commissioner, and foster care benefits until age 21

ARTICLE 7 - CHILD CARE

Modifying child care assistance provisions; clarifying certain child care assistance program provisions relating to date of eligibility; modifying the basis for calculation of the parent fee and minimum fee for certain families; expanding background study requirements for nonlicensed family child care providers; modifying certain provider and record keeping requirements; making a child care assistance program rule change

ARTICLE 8 - SIMPLIFICATION OF MFIP AND DWP

Simplifying the Minnesota family investment program and diversionary work program (MFIP/DWP); modifying certain provisions relating to the definition of caregiver, mandatory assistance unit composition, recertification, cash benefits, injury protection program, and DWP eligibility

ARTICLE 9 - CONTINUING CARE

Modifying the nursing home bed certification moratorium by prescribing payment rates for newly approved beds; modifying the nursing home rate for a relocated facilities in Norman, Wilkin, and Anoka counties; modifying human services licensing procedures; delaying the date for new adult foster care license issuance; modifying certain family support program grant requirements; modifying the consumer report program, certain personal care assistants program provisions, and reporting requirements; requiring the commissioner of human services to maintain a centralized database for collection of common entry point data and lead investigative agency data including maltreatment reporting; modifying older adult services community consortia demonstration project provisions, and quality outcome standards requirements; excepting customized living services; requiring the commissioner to request all federal approvals and waiver amendments to disability home and community-based waivers; requiring service providers applying for medical assistance (MA) for private duty nursing to complete an hourly nursing determination matrix; repealing rate determinations for nursing facilities, alternative payment demonstration project provisions, the July 1, 2001 nursing facility reimbursement system, and voluntary closures planning

ARTICLE 10 - TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT PROGRAM

Defining and conforming terms for new telecommunication technologies, modifying and clarifying commissioner of human services duties regarding telecommunications access program administration; authorizing the commissioner of commerce to contract with multiple vendors for telecommunications relay services (TRS); making conforming changes

ARTICLE 11 - COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT AND CASE MANAGEMENT REFORM

Modifying medical in-reach community-based service coordination requirements, the medical assistance (MA) personal care assistance program definitions, covered services, who can conduct assessments, personal care assistance eligibility criteria, long-term care consultation and definitions, certified assessor eligibility requirements, assessor training and certification, the long-term care consultation team, assessment and support planning, transition assistance, alternate payment methodology, case management, requirements for individual care, elderly waiver case management services, screening team duties, and county concurrence; requiring coordinated service and support plans and case management services for home and community-based waiver recipients; making conforming changes; modifying claims against estates filing requirements; requiring a commissioner of human services legislative report relating to recommendations for further case management redesign and study of county and tribal administrative functions

ARTICLE 12 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

Requiring the commissioner of human services to develop a manual of diagnostic codes to be used to define child and adult mental illnesses for the statewide mental health system; removing a children's mental health collaborative requirement for a base level of expenditures continuance; making non-applicable the statute of limitations limiting commissioner power to recover cost of care; modifying commissioner authority regarding federal revenue enhancement for the family services collaborative; requiring the commissioner to conduct a comprehensive terminology audit relating to individuals with disabilities and report to the legislature

ARTICLE 13 - HEALTH CARE

Excluding from the medical assistance (MA) asset limitations for individuals and families certain American Indian owned assets and premiums payment; modifying a period of ineligibility elimination condition for long-term care services; requiring the commissioner of human services to publish a list of active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients in the MA formulary; regulating over-the-counter dispensation quantity; modifying pharmacist license requirements for MA reimbursement; removing the eyeglasses cost-sharing allowance; adding a co-payment and deductible exception for fee-for-service payments subject to volume purchase through competitive bidding; modifying the managed care withhold for emergency room utilization rate reduction; allowing the commissioner to contract with demonstration providers and current or former sponsors of qualified Medicare approved special needs plans; modifying managed care plan rate setting performance withholds provisions; modifying the content requirement of MA liens; repealing protections for American Indians

ARTICLE 14 - TECHNICAL

Making technical changes relating to the nursing home beds moratorium certification

ARTICLE 15 - DATA PRACTICES

Modifying welfare data disclosure provisions and licensing denial and disqualification data treatment; allowing human services licensing data, services for developmental disabilities, and human services background studies to be shared with certain other departments; modifying law enforcement data provisions

ARTICLE 16 - LICENSING

Exempting school-age children child care from human services licensing; modifying licensing , data practices, licensing application, grant of license, residential facility education program completion, application denial, license suspension, revocation, or fine, swimming pools, family day care and group family day care providers, crib safety requirements, provider eligibility payments from the chemical dependency consolidated treatment fund, independent living assistance for youth, and the maltreatment of minors; modifying provisions relating to the human services background studies act, human services background studies, and human services hearings; repealing a certain rule

ARTICLE 17 - PROGRAM INTEGRITY

Establishing provisions relating to human services licensing public funding reimbursement; requiring attendance records for publicly funded child care services; specifying monitoring provisions for applicants or license holders receiving public funds compliance; establishing compliance officers for individuals on medical assistance (MA)

ARTICLE 18 - STATEWIDE PROVIDER ENROLLMENT, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, AND PAYMENT METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Requiring department of human services license holders to retain records in a manner allowing for commissioner review and specifying electronic record keeping requirements; requiring state medical assistance (MA) hearings to be consolidated; establishing additional standards and procedures for home and community-based services; defining emergency and incident for services for persons with developmental disabilities, requiring annual reports, license holder policies and procedures knowledge by consumer, specifying protection-related rights modifications, requiring license holders to justify locked doors, modifying staff orientation, subcontractor policies, and procedures copies availability requirements, prohibiting license holder acceptance of consumer powers-of-attorney designation; Home and Community-Based Services Standards (HCBS) standards; providing standards for home and community-based services, defining terms, specifying applicability and effect of regulations, service recipient rights, health services, protection standards, service needs, record requirements, staffing standards, and policies and procedures; establishing payment requirements and methodology and development
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