Legislative Session number- 89

Bill Name: SF1356

2E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CHILDREN AND FAMILY
SERVICES

Modifying the definition of legal nonlicensed child care provider;
clarifying application deadlines; allowing alternative administrative and
judicial appeal processes for child maltreatment determinations; modifying the
definition of relative for Indian children; specifying a purpose to protect the
long-term interests of Indian tribes and Indian children; modifying definitions
with regard to Indian children and parentage; defining qualified expert witness
relating to out-of-home placement or termination or parental rights relating to
an Indian child; specifying a duty to prevent out-of-home placement for Indian
children and promote family reunification and active efforts; establishing
consideration of the testimony of a qualified expert witness and certain
evidentiary requirements relating to Indian child placement; specifying
procedure in establishing good cause to deny transfer to a tribal court;
authorizing the court to not to follow the order of placement preferences if the
court finds good cause; defining Indian child relatives; modifying disclosure
requirements in child fatality or near-fatality cases; reinstating subsequent
income withholding provisions

ARTICLE 2 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
SERVICES

Requiring unmarked motor vehicles used in general investigation by
the department of human services (DHS) alcohol and drug abuse division to be
registered and display plates; modifying case manager requirements, and on-site
child care for treatment providers; allowing face-to-face chemical dependency
services to be provided by two-way interactive video; modifying children's
therapeutic services and supports provisions, intensive treatment in foster
care, and intensive rehabilitative mental health noncovered services; requiring
the commissioner to report on the use of certified peer specialists

ARTICLE 3
- DIRECT CARE AND TREATMENT

Authorizing the commissioner to contract with and
receive payment from the federal Indian Health Service for the care and
treatment of tribe members who are committed by tribal court order for mental
illness, developmental disability, or chemical dependency

ARTICLE 4 -
OPERATIONS

Allowing the commissioner to authorize child care providers;
requiring on-site recordkeeping; providing an overpayment claim for failure to
comply with records access; requiring reporting for part-time attendance;
providing limits on receiving public funds; providing voluntary and involuntary
receivership for nonresidential alcohol and drug abuse programs; specifying
requirements for providing education for chemical dependency programs that serve
parents with their children; modifying disinfection provisions for family child
care diapering areas; clarifying variance exclusions relating to license holder
and household chemical use problems; requiring child foster care license holders
and staff to complete mental health training; modifying certain opioid addiction
treatment education requirements for providers licensed to provide chemical
dependency treatment services, requiring physicians dispensing opioid addiction
treatment medication to be enrolled as a Minnesota health care program provider,
requiring people who are prescribed high doses of opioid addiction treatment to
meet face to face with the prescribing physician, modifying opioid addiction
treatment medication unsupervised use authorization authority, clarifying
comprehensive assessment deadlines, modifying the opioid addiction treatment
prescription monitoring program, requiring chemical dependency programs to
report evidence of controlled substance diversion; requiring a first aid trained
person and a CPR for infants trained person present at all times; requiring an
initial training for all child care providers prior to licensing; allowing
shaken infant training to be used with annual training; modifying access to
persons served by a program to include access to information; exempting certain
supplemental nursing services, personnel agencies, and providers from the
background study requirement; specifying conditions for background studies to be
transferable; requiring license holders to be responsible for background studies
for educational programs; expanding the crime of financial misconduct and
specifying prohibited hiring practices and prescribing penalties; establishing
and providing for a cultural and ethnic communities leadership council to advise
the commissioner on reducing disparities affecting racial and ethnic groups;
modifying administrative fraud disqualification hearing to include emergency
programs; requiring nonemergency medical transportation providers to document
each service occurrence; specifying personal care assistance services mandated
service verification; making clarifying changes; imposing criminal penalties for
wrongful employment at a child care center; defining trafficking SNAP benefits
and prescribing penalties; repealing office of inspector general recoveries for
child care assistance program fraud

ARTICLE 5 - HEALTH CARE

Authorizing a
medical assistance (MA) recipient of waiver services to use an electronic
tablet; requiring the commissioner to amend certain rules

ARTICLE 6 -
CONTINUING CARE

Requiring license holders to limit temporary service
suspensions to certain situations for home and community-based services;
modifying state agency hearings for persons issued notice of service termination
and individual disability waiver denial; modifying long-term care counseling
options; changing eligibility for nonmedical assistance recipients by requiring
United States citizenship or national; modifying services covered under
alternative care; specifying alternative care to cover sign language and spoken
language interpreter services; requiring overpayment recovery; modifying waiver
funding allocation; waiving the fee for persons receiving temporary alternative
care services; modifying community first services and supports (CFSS)
definitions, defining the person-centered planning process; providing an
agency-provider model and evaluation of CFSS services; specifying CFSS
agency-provider requirements and policies for complain process and incident
response; defining financial management services; modifying participant
responsibilities, support services documentation, consultation services,
participant protections, rights, and commissioner access and recommendations;
requiring the commissioner to develop a plan to implement CFSS licensure;
modifying maltreatment of vulnerable adults reporting; requiring the department
to come into compliance with the home and community-based settings transition
plan for the home and community-based waiver; repealing manual restraints
restrictions when implementing for emergency use
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