Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF0380

Relating to human services; modifying mental health provisions

ARTICLE 1 -
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY

Authorizing the 911 system to include a
referral to mental health crisis teams; requiring the commissioner of public
safety to create a grant process for crisis intervention team training for local
police and sheriff departments; specifying training requirements; providing for
a county jail reentry project to promote public safety, prevent recidivism and
promote successful reintegration of certain individuals into the community,
providing grants to county boards and specifying application requirements;
appropriating money to the commissioner of corrections for the county jail
reentry projects grant program, to the commissioner of human services to fund
discharge planning for offenders with serious and persistent mental illness, to
the supreme court to develop and implement standards for mental health courts
and to the commissioner of public safety for grants to local police departments
for crisis intervention training

ARTICLE 2 - CHILDREN'S MENTAL
HEALTH

Requiring the commissioner of human services to provide early
intervention collaborative services to children at high risk for child
maltreatment, substance abuse, mental illness and serious and violent offending;
certifying foster children eligibility for medical assistance (MA) until age 21;
providing a rate increase for children's therapeutic services and supports under
the medical assistance program; extending foster care benefits up to age
21

ARTICLE 3 - MISCELLANEOUS MENTAL HEALTH

Creating a loan forgiveness
program for individuals employed by a nonprofit
agency providing mental health
services for cultural or ethnic minority clients; authorizing the commissioner
of health to make grants, defining qualified education loan, specifying
eligibility and providing for disbursements; modifying certain suicide
prevention plan requirements; modifying the requirement for licensed
professional clinical counseling by requiring mental health professionals to be
licensed professional clinical counselors (LPCC), making conforming amendments;
modifying standards for intensive residential rehabilitative mental health
services; modifying provider entity standards for crisis stabilization services
purposes; modifying the drug formulary committee membership, requiring vacancy
notice and posting by the commissioner of human services on the web site and
modifying mental illness prescription prior authorization requirements;
modifying general assistance medical care (GAMC) eligibility determination
requirements for individuals in a correctional facility diagnosed with a mental
illness; requiring the commissioner to work with Hennepin county to establish a
mental health fatality review team and resource panel pilot project to review
adult mental health facilities occurring in Hennepin county during or after
contact with law enforcement, courts, or corrections systems, specifying duties,
membership and project requirements, requiring evaluation and reports to the
legislature, governor, attorney general, supreme and district courts and county
board; requiring the commissioner to consult stakeholders for evidence based
practices implementation, to fund up to a certain number of dual diagnosis
programs for high risk adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring
substance abuse problems and to study medical assistance mental health
reimbursement methods that interfere with best practices; appropriating money to
the commissioner of human services for suicide intervention and prevention
grants, dual diagnosis demonstration projects and for the adult mental health
fatality review team pilot to be transferred to Hennepin county and
appropriating money to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the Bridges rental
housing assistance program

ARTICLE 4 - MENTAL HEALTH FUNDING

Modifying and
expanding mental health services funding provisions for medical assistance (MA)
coverage, general assistance medical care (GAMC) and MinnesotaCare; increasing
provider rates for adult rehabilitative mental health services, children's
therapeutic services and support services, community mental health center
services and crisis services; modifying diagnostic assessment reimbursement
rates; modifying payments for mental health services, mental health provider
travel time and mental health telemedicine; allowing reimbursements for
diagnostic assessments; modifying critical access mental health rate increases
for certain services by community mental health center; modifying provisions
relating to general assistance medical mental health coverage to include certain
children's therapeutic services and support, adult rehabilitative mental health
services, or community mental health services; modifying other health care
conditions under the MinnesotaCare program; expanding certain prior provider
rate increases to include certain community mental health center services and
crisis services

ARTICLE 5 - EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT

Requiring the commissioner
of employment and economic development (DEED) to fund special projects to
provide employment support to certain people with mental illness; appropriating
money to the commissioner to fund special projects focused on providing
employment support and for the extended employment serious mental illness
program

ARTICLE 6 - EMPLOYEE RELATIONS; HEALTH INSURANCE
COVERAGE

Modifying health insurance benefit plans under the public employee
insurance program and dependent coverage provisions; expanding probationary
period for mental health services

ARTICLE 7 - EDUCATION-RELATED MENTAL HEALTH
PROVISION

Modifying certain educational based mental health provisions;
expanding legitimate exemptions for compulsive attendance purposes; modifying
certain special education requirements for placement of children with and
without disabilities eligibility for a summer school program; modifying safe
school levy requirements to pay for the costs of mental health crisis
intervention team training for peace officers and sheriffs serving as liaisons;
requiring the commissioner of human services in consultation with the office of
higher education to provide options for higher education student health
insurance programs, requiring report to the legislature; requiring the
commissioner of education to provide grants to school districts to develop a
service delivery system for transition-aged youth and young adults with
emotional or behavioral difficulties; specifying certain program criteria and
funding requirements
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