Relating to health care and children and families services

ARTICLE 1 - HEALTH CARE

Expanding postpartum depression education and information requirements; defining maternal depression; expanding family home visiting programs goals, requiring the development of practice standards, and modifying report requirements; requiring the commissioner of human services to provide technical assistance to improve maternal depression screening and referral rates for medical assistance (MA) and MinnesotaCare enrollees; modifying certain MA eligibility categories; expanding adult rehabilitative mental health services coverage for parenting; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services to award health care program outreach grants and to fund the incentive program

ARTICLE 2 - MISCELLANEOUS

Expanding the definition of interagency child find systems; requiring continuing education requirements for health related licensed boards to include parental depression; modifying a prior appropriation; requiring the commissioners of human services, health and education to develop a joint plan to reduce the prevalence of parental depression and other serious mental illness and the potential impact of unaddressed parental mental illness on children, legislative report requirement; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services to provide certain mental health consultation services

ARTICLE 3 - CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES

Expanding eligible participants requirements under the child care sliding fee program and the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) child care assistance program; modifying child care rates absent days reimbursement requirements for licensed child care providers and license exempt centers; establishing a task force on low-income families to review the adequacy of state programs and tax policies to support low-income families; appropriating money for school readiness services agreements and MFIP family stabilization services; repealing the MFIP assistance standards family cap
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