Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0888

Relating to state government

ARTICLE 1 - HUMAN SERVICES
APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services (DHS)
for information system projects and systems continuity, management and
operations, revenue and pass through expenditures, children and economic
assistance, MFIP/DWP and support services, various child care, adoption
assistance, children and community services, general assistance (GA) and
emergency general assistance, Minnesota supplemental and emergency supplemental
aids, group residential, children and economic assistance, basic health care,
MinnesotaCare, general assistance medical care (GAMC) and other health care,
continuing care, alternative care, medical assistance (MA), mental health, deaf
and hard of hearing, various chemical dependency and continuing care grants,
targeted case management temporary funding, medical assistance (MA), physician
directed care coordination, health care policy administration, senior health
options reimbursement, utilization review and mental health, sex offender,
security hospital and METO services; requiring the commissioner to expend TANF
funds according to federal regulations and allowing working family credit
expenditures to be claimed for TANF maintenance of effort (MOE), appropriating
money from TANF funds to the commissioner for the Minnesota family investment
plan (MFIP) for child care; increasing dental access grants prepayment
demonstration project capitation payments; authorizing gift acceptance, certain
transfers and transferring certain amounts from the health care access fund to
the general fund; canceling a TANF prior appropriation; providing for certain
general fund base adjustments, food stamps bonus award spending authority, child
support payment center, financial institution data match and payment,
MinnesotaCare federal receipts and funding, new nursing facility reimbursement
system delay, long term care consultation funding increase and transition to new
licensure; appropriating money for (DHS) administrative, financial and
operations expenses; appropriating money to the commissioner of health for
community and family health promotion, TANF, MN ENABL, loan forgiveness, fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder (FAS), policy, quality and compliance, health care
access survey, MERC, health information technology, health insurance exchange,
health protection, pandemic influenza preparedness, minority and multicultural
health, TANF and disease surveillance; appropriating money to the veterans
nursing homes board for repair and betterment, to the health related and
emergency medical services boards, to the council on disability and to the
ombudsmen for mental health and developmental disabilities and families;
authorizing certain (DHS) transfers; prohibiting use of indirect cost
allocations to fund programs; sunsetting uncodified language

ARTICLE 2 - CHILD
CARE

Modifying child care programs financial eligibility and rates provisions;
authorizing and providing for school readiness service agreements (SRSA) and
funding

ARTICLE 3 - CHILDREN AND FAMILY

Modifying child care programs
eligibility to include Minnesota family investment plan (MFIP) applicants;
expanding commissioner of human services (DHS) powers to include program
assistance recipient verification at recertification; modifying DHS MFIP
administration to include and add certain federal regulation and standards;
modifying MFIP expenditures treatment, county application assistance
requirements and procedures, eligibility recertification, case review, hardship
extensions, sanctions, work activity definition, employment and training county
duties, employment plan requirements, English as a second language (ESL)
requirements, performance based funding and county quarterly comparison
reporting; requiring MFIP specialized employment and providing for community
service work experience employment and injury protection; making conforming
amendments; repealing MFIP provisions relating to ineligibility for state funded
programs, hardship extensions, sanctions, community work experience and injury
protection for work experience participants

ARTICLE 4 - LICENSING

Modifying
department of human services unlicensed emergency relative placement (foster
care) county and private agencies licensing responsibilities, background study
requirements, disqualifications, reconsiderations and commissioner notice;
establishing adoption background study requirements and child foster care and
tribal organizations background studies, modifying adoption home study
requirements

ARTICLE 5 - HEALTH CARE

Modifying authorized health care access
fund transfers, certain medical assistance (MA) reimbursements and MA and
MinnesotaCare dental provider payments; removing the sunset for the council on
disability

ARTICLE 6 - CONTINUING CARE

Modifying human services licensing
provisions and services for developmental disabilities; modifying certain
definitions, applicability, consumer protection, staffing, service and
management standards and family support program under services for developmental
disabilities, consumer information and assistance senior linkage requirements;
modifying MA covered services, long term care consultation services, medicaid
waiver for elderly services, nursing facility alternative payment demonstration
project, quality profiles requirements and value based reimbursement,
intermediate care facility for mental retardation (ICF/MR) payment rates,
general assistance (GA) covered services; providing a single grant program for
deaf blind persons services; requiring the commissioner of human services to
conduct a study of housing with services establishments and home care providers
to assess spend down impact on public expenditures; requiring the commissioner
to increase community service provider reimbursement rates or limits by a
certain percentage, specifying purpose

ARTICLE 7 - HEALTH INSURANCE

Modifying
commissioner of human services powers, certain medical assistance (MA)
eligibility and covered services and certain MinnesotaCare eligibility and
commissioner powers and duties; establishing a new MinnesotaCare sliding fee
scale premium schedule for children

ARTICLE 8 - MENTAL HEALTH

Modifying
alcohol and drug counselor licensure exception provisions; requiring and
providing for the commissioner of human services (DHS) to undertake mental
health service delivery and finance reform; clarifying county board
responsibility and liability under children¿s mental health act and public
institutions provisions; providing for children¿s mental health grants, medical
assistance (MA) coverage of intensive mental health outpatient treatment
(dialectical behavioral therapy or DBT) and MA coverage of mental health case
management; modifying MA covered services, children¿s therapeutic services and
supports, children with severe emotional disturbance payment rates, dental
access grants prepayment demonstration project, critical access mental health
rate increase special payments, general assistance (GA), MinnesotaCare mental
health care responsibilities and compulsive gambling assessment provisions;
specifying instructions to the revisor of statues; repealing a certain agency
rule

ARTICLE 9 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Allowing public assistance data to be
shared for MinnesotaCare enrollment and premium collection purposes; "Minnesota
Health Insurance Exchange"; providing for greater individual choice of health
insurance products, specifying organization, operation and requirements,
requiring referral of all MinnesotaCare applicants, assigning responsibility for
MinnesotaCare premiums collection; modifying Minnesota comprehensive health
insurance (MCHA) provisions, medical education full time equivalent (FTE)
enrollment and funds distribution, diagnostic laboratory services, infant test
for heritable and congenital disorders, interconnected electronic health record
grants, housing with services registration, audiologist examination,
occupational therapists licensure, hearing instrument dispensing and well fees,
hearing instrument dispensing requirements; requiring grants for projects
increasing mental health access for underserved populations; establishing
mortuary science fees and increasing a certain filing fee; establishing
MinnesotaCare II to subsidize private market health plans purchase for
MinnesotaCare eligible children; providing a MinnesotaCare premium reduction for
children and adults meeting preventive care goals; repealing a certain agency
rule; repealing a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder appropriation transfer
(rt)