Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF1278

Relating to health

ARTICLE 1 - PREGNANT WOMEN AND PARENT
SUPPORT

"Minnesota Pregnant Women and Parent Support Act"; prohibiting health
plan imposition of policy waiting periods for prenatal and maternity health
insurance benefits, defining policy waiting period; eliminating pregnancy as a
preexisting condition; establishing a parenting support grant program under the
direction of the office of higher education for public or private postsecondary
institutions, specifying certain duties of the office; establishing an
informational hotline on available pregnancy, adoption and parental support
agencies; requiring information on alpha-fetoprotein testing for pregnant women
when providing counseling under certain conditions; requiring adoption referral
information to be provided by an organization, agency, clinic or health care
center receiving state funding; requiring maternity group homes receiving
federal funding to provide adoption and parenting skills counseling to
residents; establishing an adoption tax credit, limitations; repealing a certain
provision relating to Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) family
caps

ARTICLE 2 - APPROPRIATIONS

Appropriating money to commissioner of
health to establish and operate the toll-free telephone number, to commissioner
of public safety for crime victim assistance grants for battered women shelters
and to the office of higher education for child care and parenting support
grants
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