Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1043

E Relating to human services, modifying certain provisions + regulating state
operated services; modifying the authority of the commissioner of +human
services to designate hospitals and regional treatment centers as +special care
units for the mentally ill, mentally retarded or chemically +dependent; changing
the terms state hospital and regional treatment center to state +operated
services, removing certain obsolete language and requiring the +commissioner to
develop and maintain the services and to create and maintain forensic+ services
programs in coordination with counties and other vendors, specifying +certain
authorized or required services and authorizing the commissioner to +establish
policies and procedures, eliminating certain existing services and +personnel
requirements of public institutions and clarifying certain +consultative and
after care services requirements; modifying the provision providing +for
commissioner appointment of a medical director to establish and +maintain the
medical policies of the department and modifying certain duties of +the
director, transferring certain medical staff appointment +responsibilities of
the commissioner to the director; clarifying certain recordkeeping +and
handling requirements for patient or resident money and personal +property;
modifying certain provisions providing for shared service agreements;+ modifying
the definitions of secure treatment facility and employee under the +bloodborne
pathogens program, changing the Minnesota sexual psychopathic +personality
treatment center to the Minnesota sex offender program; modifying the
requirement for the Minnesota extended treatment options program for +persons
with mental retardation to be provided at the Cambridge RTC; +clarifying the
duty of county sheriffs to transport and deliver persons committed by+ the
district court to the care and custody of the commissioner to state +operated
services facilities, removing the specificity for persons with mental
retardation; clarifying the provision providing for the security +hospital in
St. Peter and the authority of the commissioner to transfer certain +persons to
the hospital, requiring the commissioner to establish a written +policy creating
the transfer criteria; clarifying certain civil commitment provisions+ relating
to secure treatment facilities, requiring the court to order persons +committed
as mentally ill, chemically dependent or mentally retarded to the +commissioner
for placement designation purposes; specifying certain internal cross+ reference
deletion and correction instructions to the revisor of statutes; +repealing
certain provisions relating to appointment of a medical director, +state
hospital planning committees, certain reporting and recordkeeping +requirements,
institution inspections and investigations, fire protection, food +products
contracts, hospitals for persons with mental retardation, regional +treatment
centers, previous development of state operated services, the +administrative
structure of the state operated system, certain fees and expenses, +death or
illness notice requirements, the Minnesota security hospital, +commitment before
conviction, supervision of paroled patients, guardianship of inmates,
sterilization of mentally ill persons and rehabilitation facility +boards (ra,
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