Session Year 2010, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0001

Relating to the state budget;

ARTICLE 1 - SUMMARY

Voiding 2009 allotment
reductions made by the commissioner of management and budget (MMB)

ARTICLE 2
- CASH FLOW

Balancing proposed general fund spending and anticipated general
fund revenue; modifying certain aids and credits payments to improve cash flow;
modifying certain state payment and liability payment schedules for the
university of Minnesota, state property taxes and sales and use taxes

ARTICLE
3 - E-12 EDUCATION

Adjusting the education aid payment schedule; decreasing
general education aid, educate parents partnership, kindergarten entrance
assessment initiative and intervention and the department of education
appropriation

ARTICLE 4 - E-12 EDUCATION FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Providing a
debt service appropriation; modifying prior appropriations for abatement
revenue, consolidation transition, nonpublic pupil education aid, nonpublic
pupil transportation, charter school building lease aid, charter school startup
aid, integration aid, success for the future, tribal contract schools, regular
and excess special education, travel for home-based services, health and safety
revenue, debt service equalization, alternative facilities bonding aid, deferred
maintenance aid, kindergarten milk, basic system support, multicounty, multitype
library systems, regional library telecommunications aid, school readiness,
early childhood family education aid, health and developmental screening aid,
community education aid, adults with disabilities program aid and adult basic
education aid

ARTICLE 5 - HIGHER EDUCATION

Making reductions in
appropriations in higher education for the office of higher education, the
Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) board of trustees and the
university of Minnesota board of regents

ARTICLE 6 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL
RESOURCES

Making reductions in appropriations for environment and natural
resources for the pollution control agency (PCA) and the department of natural
resources (DNR); modifying a prior transfer to the metropolitan
council

ARTICLE 7 - ENERGY

Modifying certain department of commerce
appropriations for administrative services and market assurance

ARTICLE 8 -
AGRICULTURE

Modifying certain appropriations for protection services,
agricultural marketing and development, administration and financial
assistance

ARTICLE 9 - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Appropriating money to the
department of employment and economic development (DEED); modifying certain
housing finance agency appropriations for housing rehabilitation program rental
housing developments; modifying certain appropriations for the department of
labor and industry labor standards/apprenticeship, the bureau of mediation
services, the Minnesota historical society for education outreach
and
preservation and access

ARTICLE 10 - TRANSPORTATION

Modifying certain
transportation appropriations for multimodal systems
transit improvement
administration, the freight rail service plan and electronic communication for
Roosevelt Tower; modifying certain metropolitan council appropriations for bus
system and rail operations

ARTICLE 11 - PUBLIC SAFETY

Modifying certain
human rights appropriations

ARTICLE 12 - STATE GOVERNMENT

Modifying
certain appropriations for certain expenses of the governor and
lieutenant
governor, the office of enterprise technology for information
technology
security, administration including the government and citizen
services program,
management and budget, revenue including the tax system management program;
authorizing transfers; requiring the MMB commissioner to transfer up to a
certain amount from the health care access fund to the general fund

ARTICLE
13 - AIDS, CREDITS, REFUNDS

Imposing certain 2009 and 2010 aid reductions and
defining certain terms; eliminating the political contributions refund for
contributions after a certain date and before a certain date; modifying the
property tax refund; providing a levy validation and prohibiting special levies
for lost revenues due to aid and credit reimbursement reductions; providing a
refund payment delay for overpayments of corporate franchise tax and sales
tax

ARTICLE 14 - SPECIAL REVENUE FUND

Providing for postsecondary
education board payments by Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) to
the legislative auditor to pay audit expenses for audits requested by the board
of trustees; providing for funds of the attorney general for interagency legal
services; costs for providing copies of data; state surplus property net
proceeds of the sale of surplus state property by the department of
administration for state agencies; providing for money received by the board of
water and soil resources (BWSR); providing for fees received by the department
of natural resources (DNR) for underground storage are credited to an account in
the natural resources fund; providing for federal reimbursements received by the
department of military affairs; providing for guardian ad litem legal fees money
deposited by the commissioner of management and budget for supreme court
guardian ad litem reimbursement; providing for money deposited by the
commissioner of revenue from a county for the contaminated site cleanup and
development grant account in the department of employment and economic
development (DEED); providing for money collected by the commissioner of public
safety in conjunction with the criminal justice data communications network;
providing for fees received by the commissioner of public safety for contract
services by the capitol complex security division; providing for application
fees for the credit enhancement program collected by the public facilities
authority; providing for money received by the commissioner of management
and
budget from county treasurers for tax increment financing (TIF) and
appropriated to the state auditor for reporting and auditing TIF; providing for
a fine above the statutory minimum imposed by a court for violation of the
prostitution solicitation statute and appropriated to the commissioner of public
safety; providing for repayment to the commissioner of management and budget of
public defender costs by persons determined to have ability to pay and
appropriated to the board of public defense; providing for sale of wildlife
lands with proceeds of certain lands sold by the commissioner of administration
to deposited into an account in the natural resources fund and appropriated to
natural resources

ARTICLE 15 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Modifying certain
department of human services appropriations relating to agency management and
financial operations, children and economic assistance grants including child
support enforcement grants, children's services grants, American Indian child
welfare projects, child and community services grants, general assistance
grants, emergency general assistance, Minnesota supplemental aid grants,
emergency Minnesota supplemental aid funds and group residential housing grants,
basic health care grants including medical assistance basic health care grants
for families and children, medical assistance basic health care grants for the
elderly and disabled, delaying hospital and nonhospital fee-for-service
payments, general assistance grants, health care management and administration,
including the incentive program and outreach grants and base adjustment,
continuing care grants including aging and adult services grants, medical
assistance long-term care facilities grants, medical assistance long-term care
waivers and home care grants, adult mental health grants, deaf and
hard-of-hearing grants, chemical dependency entitlement and nonentitlement
grants, other continuing care grants, providing certain delays, continuing care
management including county maintenance of effort and adult mental health
state-operated services; modifying certain department of health appropriations
for community and family health promotion, policy quality and compliance, health
protection, administrative support services; modifying payments for substance
abuse treatments and health
protection appropriations for pentachlorophenol and
the PFC citizens advisory group; reducing the personal care assistant paid hour
maximum; prohibiting nursing facility operating payment rate adjustments;
increasing the commissioner withholding for managed care plan payments; further
reducing the payment rate for physician and professional services; prohibiting
critical access dental services payments; further reducing the basic care
services reimbursement for medical assistance (MA) and general assistance
medical care (GAMC); requiring the commissioner of human services (DHS) to
decrease the group residential housing (GRH) supplementary service
rate

ARTICLE 16 - HEALTH CARE

Requiring review and evaluation of all
department of human services (DHS) studies; allowing long-term hospital to be
rebased; changing nonemergency medical transportation level of need
determination to annual; expanding medical assistance (MA) eligibility to
certain adults without children; requiring commissioner approval for certain
physical and occupational therapy services and speech language pathology and
audiology services beyond certain thresholds; limiting chiropractic services
payments; modifying medical assistance (MA) coverage for medication
(prescription) therapy management services by allowing services via two-way
interactive video in regional areas lacking pharmacists under certain
conditions; requiring oral language interpreter used by health care providers to
be listed in the registry; allowing the commissioner to set medical supplies
reimbursement rates below the medicare payment rate; reducing the MA co-payment
for hospital-based emergency room non-emergency visits; clarifying the schedule
for MA reimbursement; authorizing a health care delivery systems demonstration
project to develop and test alternative and innovative health care delivery
systems and establishing a pilot project in Hennepin and Ramsey counties;
requiring commissioner of human services to reduce a health plan's emergency
room utilization rate for state health care program enrollees; requiring
actuarial soundness for managed care plans rate payments; requiring an
additional payment rate reduction for physician and professional services,
specifying exceptions; requiring medicare principles of reimbursement for state
operated dental clinic payments; requiring commissioner designation of critical
access dental providers and the commissioner to classify physical and
occupational therapy and speech language pathology and related services as basic
care services; providing a medicare payment limit; specifying coverage and
duration for GAMC covered services; modifying GAMC payment rates and contact
under certain conditions; modifying MinnesotaCare co-payments and
reimbursements; permitting volunteer firefighters and ambulance attendants to
enroll in MinnesotaCare at full cost; requiring the commissioner to withhold an
additional amount for managed care or county-based purchasing plan payments;
providing MA coverage for asthma environmental assessments and education;
extending the temporary hospital uncompensated care pool coverage for certain
people; requiring the commissioner to offer certain contract terms for a
coordinated care delivery system; requiring hospitals to allocated an initial
amount and specifying and reducing amounts; requiring submission of a Medicaid
state plan amendment and waiver to receive federal fund participation for
certain adults without children; repealing certain provisions contingent upon
other enactments

ARTICLE 17 - CONTINUING CARE

Changing housing with
services registration information and contract contents disclosure requirements;
requiring a uniform consumer information guide for residents and requiring
ombudsman for long-term care contact information upon termination of lease
notification; specifying medicare information disclosure in the uniform consumer
information guide; changing the computation method for the parental contribution
for children with disabilities services MA; authorizing a legislative report
from the Minnesota State Council on Disability, the Minnesota Consortium for
Citizens with Disabilities and the Arc of Minnesota regarding effectiveness of
state programs serving people with disabilities; modifying Senior LinkAge Line
information requirements; requiring notice regarding asset requirements in
certain circumstances with regard to MA for employed persons with disabilities
(MA-EPD) asset limits; decreasing the hour maximum for which personal care
assistants may be paid; providing a rate reduction for customized living and
24-hour customized living; prohibiting operating payment rate adjustments;
ceasing enrollment and operation of the Minnesota disability health options
(MnDHO) program; requiring the commissioner to consider a review of the
definition of home and community services and appropriate settings for persons
with disabilities housing options; requiring the commissioner to seek federal
financial participation for eligible activity related to certain grants to
Advocating Change Together (ACT) for a self-advocacy network; increasing the
daily rate for a Clearwater county intermediate care facility for the
developmentally disabled (ICF/MR)

ARTICLE 18 - CHILDREN AND FAMILY
SERVICES

Eliminating the food stamp asset limit; modifying the Minnesota
family investment program (MFIP) qualification for hard-to-employ participants
and reducing the work participation cash benefit; increasing the group
residential housing supplemental rate for a provider in Mahnomen County for a
certain time period

ARTICLE 19 - MISCELLANEOUS

Providing health plan
coverage for private duty nursing services; establishing a couples on the brink
project; expanding and modifying the controlled substances prescription
electronic reporting system and clarifying funding options; establishing a
chemical and mental health services transformation advisory task force;
requiring commissioner of human services (DHS) legislature notification of
changes in the state-operated services programs and requiring legislative
approval for certain closures; establishing a state-operated services account;
changing the chemical dependency treatment allocation, the administrative
adjustment, division of costs, allocation of collections; authorizing the
commissioner to approve and implement chemical health care pilot projects;
increasing the marriage license application fee and changing the disposition of
fees collected to provide for the couples on the brink project; requiring the
chemical and mental health services transformation advisory task force to
recommend metro area community-based services; requiring a Minnesota management
and budget (MMB) legislative report on human services fiscal notes; requiring
the board of pharmacy to study prescription drug waste reduction and the issue
of controlled substances diversion from veterinary practice; requiring data
collection on health disparities by the commissioners of health and human
services

ARTICLE 20 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Collecting data on individuals
with major traumatic injury; requiring reporting of certain health maintenance
organization (HMO) administrative expense data; establishing the advisory group
on administrative expenses; specifying certain duties and membership
requirements; sunset provision; prohibiting data collecting on individuals
regarding lawful firearm ownership or data; establishing a certified birth
record surcharge; requiring the commissioner to designate six levels of trauma
hospitals and two levels of pediatric trauma hospitals, classifying data on
individuals as private, establishing a trauma registry, modifying trauma
advisory council membership; establishing a licensure requirement for birth
centers, providing temporary licensing; requiring the commissioner to revise
clinical and case management guidelines to include recommendations for elevated
blood lead levels in children; allowing state health plans and county-based
purchasing plans to complete an inventory of existing data collection and
reporting requirements and submit; providing hospital and clinic vendor
accreditation simplification; providing an open application process for health
information exchange; transferring emergency medical services regulatory board
powers and duties with regard to comprehensive advanced life-support educational
program to the commissioner of health; repealing the trauma registry

ARTICLE
21 - PUBLIC HEALTH

Modifying base fees for recreational camping areas and
youth camps; specifying use of a portion of the Academic Health Center's MERC
funds for a program to assist internationally trained physicians committed to
serve in underserved areas; requiring the commissioner of human Services to seek
a federal waiver to increase the eligibility requirement for the supplemental
nutrition assistance program

ARTICLE 22 - HEALTH CARE REFORM

Requiring the
commissioner of commerce and the Minnesota comprehensive health association to
coordinate efforts to obtain federal funds for the implementation of the federal
high-risk pool in Minnesota; requiring the commissioner of human services to
implement the coordination of care for enrollees with chronic conditions through
a health care home in compliance with federal requirements to ensure federal
funding; requiring the commissioner to seek participation in available
demonstration projects under federal health care reform; establishing a health
care reform task force; requiring the state to apply for any available planning
grants for establishing a health exchange

ARTICLE 23 - HUMAN SERVICES
FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Adjusting appropriations for fiscal years 2010 and 2011
to recognize forecast adjustments

ARTICLE 24 - HUMAN SERVICES CONTINGENT
APPROPRIATIONS

Providing a variety of appropriations contingent on extension
of enhanced
federal Medicaid match; incrementing policy changes necessary to
satisfy enhanced match requirements

ARTICLE 25 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
APPROPRIATIONS

Summarizing health and human services appropriations, by fund;
appropriating money for health and human services, the health-related boards and
the department of veterans affairs; providing for certain base adjustments,
funding reductions, fund transfers, carryforwards, reimbursements and payment
rates; specifying poverty guidelines; requiring the commissioner human services
(DHS) to manage certain program growth; authorizing the volunteer health care
provider program administrative services unit to prorate payments or limit
participation due to insurance cost overrun; expanding temporary assistance to
needy families/maintenance of effort (TANF/MOE) qualifying expenditures to
education credit; modifying working family credit expenditures to be claimed for
TANF/MOE, the TANF appropriation for the Minnesota family investment program
(MFIP), transition year child care, and the TANF summer youth program wage
subsidies for MFIP youth and caregivers; eliminating the TANF fund base
increase; requiring certain general fund reimbursements; providing for TANF
summer food programs; increasing fraud prevention grant funding for counties,
volunteer health care provider program funding and general assistance medical
care (GAMC) funding; modifying payments for substance abuse treatment;
specifying an expiration date for uncodified language
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