Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF1340

4E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - DATA PRACTICES

Modifying certain
investigative data provisions; modifying certain licensing data
provisions

ARTICLE 2 - LICENSING

Modifying training requirements and
safety inspections for family child care providers; requiring legal nonlicensed
child care providers to complete first aid and CPR training which includes CPR
for infants and children; clarifying that a site director who does not have an
ownership interest in the program is not considered a controlling individual;
requiring applicants for licensure to provide the applicant's taxpayer
identification number and federal employer identification number, if the
applicant has employees, and the business name or assumed name registered with
the secretary of state; providing that the commissioner must be allowed to have
access to personnel records of current and former staff and information related
to staff work experience, training, or educational requirements when this
information is relevant to inspections or investigations; requiring immediate
temporary license suspension for operation pending a revocation order appeal or
certain new violations identification; requiring the commissioner to issue a
final order in the event a temporary immediate suspension is withdrawn;
requiring revenue recapture rules apply to licensing contested case hearings;
establishing time frames when a license holder has timely appealed a licensing
sanction, exceptions; authorizing the commissioner to use certain procedures to
keep disqualified individuals away from individuals receiving services at a
licenseholder's home; requiring the request for reconsideration of a
disqualification to be submitted timely before the disqualification can be
included in the contested case hearing; providing that if an applicant or
controlling individual who was denied a license becomes affiliated with a
subsequent application within two years of the license denial, then the
subsequent application must be denied; requiring family child care license
holders to perform monthly safety inspections of mesh-sided or fabric-sided play
yards, pack and plays, or playpens used by or accessible to any child in care;
requiring license holders to perform safety inspections, at least monthly, of
every portable or rigid crib used by or accessible to any child in care;
requiring at least one caregiver to have CPR training that includes CPR
techniques for infants and children; establishing that license holders serving
vulnerable adults must have policies and procedures in place to complete an
internal review within 30 days of a report of alleged or suspected maltreatment;
requiring documentation of the review, and allows the commissioner immediate
access to the review; requiring license holders, except for family child care
and child foster care, to have policies and procedures in place to complete an
internal review within 30 days of a report of alleged or suspected maltreatment;
requiring documentation of the review, and allows the commissioner immediate
access to the review

ARTICLE 3 - FINANCIAL FRAUD AND ABUSE
INVESTIGATION

Allowing the department of human services offices of special
investigations and inspector general and the executive staff of the Minnesota
sex offender program to drive unmarked vehicles when performing official duties;
allowing unmarked vehicles for department of human services investigations
including county fraud prevention investigations; requiring the commissioner of
public safety to provide the commissioner of human services with certain
photographs or electronic images; extending authorized data use to public
assistance fraud investigations

ARTICLE 4 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL
HEALTH

Allowing the commissioner to establish higher rates for chemical
dependency treatment programs that provide on site child care during hours of
treatment activity or arrange for off site child care at a licensed child care
center or family child care home

ARTICLE 5 - BACKGROUND STUDIES

Modifying
the human services background study act; requiring the use of NETStudy for
background studies; expanding certain information and data practices
requirements to include law enforcement agencies; expanding review requirements;
modifying certain disqualification and fair hearing provisions; authorizing the
commissioner of health to appoint members to an advisory task force to develop
strategies to integrate refugee and asylee physicians into the Minnesota health
care delivery system
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