1E Relating to health and human services

ARTICLE 1 - HEALTH DEPARTMENT

Modifying the electronic drug prior authorization request accessibility deadline; providing an exemption for using a licensed well contractor; requiring a notice to be provided with certain mammogram results; providing an exemption for dental cone beam computerized tomography from diagnostic imaging requirements; requiring hospitals to participate in the Minnesota stroke registry program; requiring the commissioner of health to assess and report on the quality of care for ST elevation myocardial infarction response and treatment; allowing home care correction order e-mail delivery; modifying certain investigation and enforcement provisions for home care providers; modifying licensing and compliance monitoring requirements; requiring dementia care training for all housing with services establishments; specifying certain requirements for managers of housing with services establishments; requiring emergency planning for housing with services establishments; requiring the commissioner of human services to implement certain evaluation and reporting requirements

ARTICLE 2 - PUBLIC HEALTH

Making changes to the local public health system; modifying the organization, the powers and duties of the board of health; modifying the adoption of local ordinances; modifying certain powers and duties of the commissioner of health in relation to local public health systems and the delegation of certain powers and duties; clarifying certain assessment of costs and tax levy authority; modifying provisions relating to local public health grants; repealing certain obsolete provisions

ARTICLE 3 - HEALTH CARE

Modifying department of human services medical assistance (MA) provider enrollment for certain supplies; prohibiting prior authorization requirements for certain MA covered dental services; establishing a health care homes advisory committee; repealing certain reports and obsolete rules; requiring the commissioner to seek federal authority to amend the state Medicaid plan

ARTICLE 4 - CONTINUING CARE

Changing the MA complex private duty nursing definition to be home care nursing; making changes to requirements for personal care assistants and designation of a common entry point; changing the bond requirement for certain providers; adding adult day services to the MA essential community supports program; modifying provisions relating to continuing care; making changes to requirements for personal care assistants modifying a provider rate increase, making certain technical changes

ARTICLE 5 - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Modifying child age classifications; modifying family child care training requirements; clarifying requirements for safe sleep spaces for infants in licensed child care; preventing children in foster care from being exposed to secondhand smoke; modifying the reporting of maltreatment of minors provisions; requiring compliance with department of human services guidelines for screening child maltreatment reports; requiring county retention of certain information to identify repeated reports of maltreatment of the same child

ARTICLE 6 - HEALTH-RELATED BOARDS

Clarifying regulation of complementary and alternative health care practices by licensed or registered health care practitioners; modifying the scope and practice for chiropractors; modifying provisions relating to licensure of occupational therapists; modifying and clarifying certain provisions of the athletic trainers practice act; modifying designation of athletic training regulations; modifying certain provisions of the athletic trainers advisory council; modifying and clarifying certain athletic training activities; modifying registration requirements; clarifying continuing education approval requirements, certain discipline reporting requirements, and applicability; modifying the definition of certified doula; requiring licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) supervisors to meet administrative rule requirements; modifying the requirements of conversion from licensed professional counselor to LPCC; modifying the pharmacy practice protocol for administering vaccines; modifying provisions relating to licensure of podiatrists; requiring an employer of a person licensed or regulated by a health licensing board to report health care professionals diverting narcotics or controlled substances and providing exceptions; repealing certain inclusions in chiropractic practice, certain definitions relating to chiropractic practice and rehabilitative therapy application, physical agent modalities provisions, and registration and disciplinary process provisions relating to athletic trainers

ARTICLE 7 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

Requiring commissioner of human services approval of adult foster care homes serving people with mental illness training curriculum and requiring a testing component and professional training; specifying circumstances under which a person can receive neuroleptic medication without judicial review; making culturally specific substance use disorder programs eligible for higher chemical dependency treatment payment rates for vendor eligibility purposes; defining culturally specific program; authorizing the commissioner of human services to create a pilot program to respond to issues related to commitment

ARTICLE 8 - MISCELLANEOUS

Modifying certain provisions relating to the use or sale of tobacco products to include reference to e-cigarettes (electronic cigarettes) containing nicotine; modifying the definition of smoking, tobacco products prohibitions in public schools, municipal license of tobacco, tobacco related devices and similar products, ban on self service sale of packs and exceptions, effect on local ordinance, and sale of tobacco and tobacco delivery products to children; allowing opticians, optometrists, physicians, and eyeglass retailers to make new prescription eyeglasses using a prescription from old lenses under certain circumstances; regulating pharmacy benefit managers maximum allowable cost pricing; providing that the American Indian advisory, alcohol and other drug abuse, and American Indian child welfare advisory councils and the state traumatic brain injury program advisory committee do not expire; limiting tanning equipment to persons 18 years or older; modifying local social services agency member selection to be by the county board of commissioners; providing for the registration of automatic external defibrillators (AED); repealing a commissioner of human services review and evaluation on ongoing studies requirement, certain tanning facilities requirements, and the autism spectrum disorder task force
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