1E Relating to health care and children and families services

ARTICLE 1 - HEALTH CARE

Expanding postpartum information requirements; defining maternal depression; expanding family home visiting programs goals; 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

ARTICLE 2 - MISCELLANEOUS

Requiring continuing education requirements for health related licensed boards to include parental depression; 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

ARTICLE 3 - APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services to provide mental health consultation services and children's mental health grants and to the commissioner of health for family home visiting programs
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