2E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES

Modifying the definition of legal nonlicensed child care provider; clarifying application deadlines; allowing alternative administrative and judicial appeal processes for child maltreatment determinations; modifying the definition of relative for Indian children; specifying a purpose to protect the long-term interests of Indian tribes and Indian children; modifying definitions with regard to Indian children and parentage; defining qualified expert witness relating to out-of-home placement or termination or parental rights relating to an Indian child; specifying a duty to prevent out-of-home placement for Indian children and promote family reunification and active efforts; establishing consideration of the testimony of a qualified expert witness and certain evidentiary requirements relating to Indian child placement; specifying procedure in establishing good cause to deny transfer to a tribal court; authorizing the court to not to follow the order of placement preferences if the court finds good cause; defining Indian child relatives; modifying disclosure requirements in child fatality or near-fatality cases; reinstating subsequent income withholding provisions

ARTICLE 2 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

Requiring unmarked motor vehicles used in general investigation by the department of human services (DHS) alcohol and drug abuse division to be registered and display plates; modifying case manager requirements, and on-site child care for treatment providers; allowing face-to-face chemical dependency services to be provided by two-way interactive video; modifying children's therapeutic services and supports provisions, intensive treatment in foster care, and intensive rehabilitative mental health noncovered services; requiring the commissioner to report on the use of certified peer specialists

ARTICLE 3 - DIRECT CARE AND TREATMENT

Authorizing the commissioner to contract with and receive payment from the federal Indian Health Service for the care and treatment of tribe members who are committed by tribal court order for mental illness, developmental disability, or chemical dependency

ARTICLE 4 - OPERATIONS

Allowing the commissioner to authorize child care providers; requiring on-site recordkeeping; providing an overpayment claim for failure to comply with records access; requiring reporting for part-time attendance; providing limits on receiving public funds; providing voluntary and involuntary receivership for nonresidential alcohol and drug abuse programs; specifying requirements for providing education for chemical dependency programs that serve parents with their children; modifying disinfection provisions for family child care diapering areas; clarifying variance exclusions relating to license holder and household chemical use problems; requiring child foster care license holders and staff to complete mental health training; modifying certain opioid addiction treatment education requirements for providers licensed to provide chemical dependency treatment services, requiring physicians dispensing opioid addiction treatment medication to be enrolled as a Minnesota health care program provider, requiring people who are prescribed high doses of opioid addiction treatment to meet face to face with the prescribing physician, modifying opioid addiction treatment medication unsupervised use authorization authority, clarifying comprehensive assessment deadlines, modifying the opioid addiction treatment prescription monitoring program, requiring chemical dependency programs to report evidence of controlled substance diversion; requiring a first aid trained person and a CPR for infants trained person present at all times; requiring an initial training for all child care providers prior to licensing; allowing shaken infant training to be used with annual training; modifying access to persons served by a program to include access to information; exempting certain supplemental nursing services, personnel agencies, and providers from the background study requirement; specifying conditions for background studies to be transferable; requiring license holders to be responsible for background studies for educational programs; expanding the crime of financial misconduct and specifying prohibited hiring practices and prescribing penalties; establishing and providing for a cultural and ethnic communities leadership council to advise the commissioner on reducing disparities affecting racial and ethnic groups; modifying administrative fraud disqualification hearing to include emergency programs; requiring nonemergency medical transportation providers to document each service occurrence; specifying personal care assistance services mandated service verification; making clarifying changes; imposing criminal penalties for wrongful employment at a child care center; defining trafficking SNAP benefits and prescribing penalties; repealing office of inspector general recoveries for child care assistance program fraud

ARTICLE 5 - HEALTH CARE

Authorizing a medical assistance (MA) recipient of waiver services to use an electronic tablet; requiring the commissioner to amend certain rules

ARTICLE 6 - CONTINUING CARE

Requiring license holders to limit temporary service suspensions to certain situations for home and community-based services; modifying state agency hearings for persons issued notice of service termination and individual disability waiver denial; modifying long-term care counseling options; changing eligibility for nonmedical assistance recipients by requiring United States citizenship or national; modifying services covered under alternative care; specifying alternative care to cover sign language and spoken language interpreter services; requiring overpayment recovery; modifying waiver funding allocation; waiving the fee for persons receiving temporary alternative care services; modifying community first services and supports (CFSS) definitions, defining the person-centered planning process; providing an agency-provider model and evaluation of CFSS services; specifying CFSS agency-provider requirements and policies for complain process and incident response; defining financial management services; modifying participant responsibilities, support services documentation, consultation services, participant protections, rights, and commissioner access and recommendations; requiring the commissioner to develop a plan to implement CFSS licensure; modifying maltreatment of vulnerable adults reporting; requiring the department to come into compliance with the home and community-based settings transition plan for the home and community-based waiver; repealing manual restraints restrictions when implementing for emergency use
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