Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1675

4E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES POLICY
PROVISIONS

Modifying adoption procedure; requiring permanency progress review
for children in foster care; providing procedures for adoption of children under
guardianship of the commissioner of human services; defining birth match data
and various agency responsibilities; modifying the Minnesota family investment
program (MFIP) transitional standard; repealing the child maltreatment
panel

ARTICLE 2 - SAFE PLACE FOR NEWBORNS

Establishing and providing for a
safe place for newborns give life a chance immunity for hospitals, urgent care
medical services, and licensed ambulance services; modifying legal time allowed
for newborn relinquishment

ARTICLE 3 - ADOPTION ASSISTANCE

Providing
adoption assistance for children under the guardianship of the commissioner of
human services; establishing program administration; specifying assistance
eligibility requirements, benefits, payments, and adoptive parent reporting
responsibilities; specifying circumstances for agreement termination, assignment
and extension of adoption assistance agreement, assistance overpayments, and
appeals and hearings procedure; authorizing an interstate compact on adoption
and medical assistance (MA); providing reimbursement of nonrecurring adoption
expenses, certain agency costs, and purchase of service contracts

ARTICLE 4 -
CHILD PROTECTION

Modifying the duty to ensure placement prevention and family
reunification reasonable efforts statute by adding parental sexual abuse and
predatory offender registration as conditions for defining a child in need of
protection; changing the child protection provisions of the Juvenile Court Act
to the juvenile protection provisions and defining scope of statute; specifying
goals and court jurisdiction; modifying determining parentage; making paternity
establishment hearings public and permitting court- ordered genetic testing;
requiring juvenile treatment screenings to take place in a certain time period;
allowing courts to order evaluations and assessments for parents for
reunification purposes; requiring both parents to be engaged in child case
planning; requiring timely court findings; requiring foster care court
jurisdiction to continue to age 21; modifying findings by requiring
identification of parents and relatives; requiring agency court reports
regarding location of relatives; requiring personalized transition plan
development as directed by the juvenile; allowing voluntary foster care for
children over age 18 and requiring court hearing; establishing permanency
proceedings

ARTICLE 5 - CHILD SUPPORT

Increasing the age maximum under the
definition of American Indian child; requiring hospitals to aid new parents in
completing the recognition of parentage form; clarifying the continuing
exclusive jurisdiction for child support orders provision under the uniform
interstate family support act; modifying certain child care child support
provisions; clarifying continuing exclusive jurisdiction for child support
orders provision under the uniform interstate family support act; requiring the
commissioner to enter into a reciprocal agreement with Bermuda for child support
obligation enforcement pursuant to federal law

ARTICLE 6 - TECHNICAL AND
CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

Making statutory technical and conforming changes;
providing a disposition for children of arrested parents; specifying no
determination of maltreatment for alleged perpetrators under a certain age;
repealing the child maltreatment review panel, the adoption assistance program,
interstate adoption compacts service payments, dispositions for children in need
of protection or services or neglected and in foster care, welfare of children
duties of commissioner, and foster care benefits until age 21

ARTICLE 7 -
CHILD CARE

Modifying child care assistance provisions; clarifying certain
child care assistance program provisions relating to date of eligibility;
modifying the basis for calculation of the parent fee and minimum fee for
certain families; expanding background study requirements for nonlicensed family
child care providers; modifying certain provider and record keeping
requirements; making a child care assistance program rule change

ARTICLE 8 -
SIMPLIFICATION OF MFIP AND DWP

Simplifying the Minnesota family investment
program and diversionary work program (MFIP/DWP); modifying certain provisions
relating to the definition of caregiver, mandatory assistance unit composition,
recertification, cash benefits, injury protection program, and DWP
eligibility

ARTICLE 9 - CONTINUING CARE

Modifying the nursing home bed
certification moratorium by prescribing payment rates for newly approved beds;
modifying the nursing home rate for a relocated facilities in Norman, Wilkin,
and Anoka counties; modifying human services licensing procedures; delaying the
date for new adult foster care license issuance; modifying certain family
support program grant requirements; modifying the consumer report program,
certain personal care assistants program provisions, and reporting requirements;
requiring the commissioner of human services to maintain a centralized database
for collection of common entry point data and lead investigative agency data
including maltreatment reporting; modifying older adult services community
consortia demonstration project provisions, and quality outcome standards
requirements; excepting customized living services; requiring the commissioner
to request all federal approvals and waiver amendments to disability home and
community-based waivers; requiring service providers applying for medical
assistance (MA) for private duty nursing to complete an hourly nursing
determination matrix; repealing rate determinations for nursing facilities,
alternative payment demonstration project provisions, the July 1, 2001 nursing
facility reimbursement system, and voluntary closures planning

ARTICLE 10 -
TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT PROGRAM

Defining and conforming terms for new
telecommunication technologies, modifying and clarifying commissioner of human
services duties regarding telecommunications access program administration;
authorizing the commissioner of commerce to contract with multiple vendors for
telecommunications relay services (TRS); making conforming changes

ARTICLE 11
- COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT AND CASE MANAGEMENT REFORM

Modifying medical
in-reach community-based service coordination requirements, the medical
assistance (MA) personal care assistance program definitions, covered services,
who can conduct assessments, personal care assistance eligibility criteria,
long-term care consultation and definitions, certified assessor eligibility
requirements, assessor training and certification, the long-term care
consultation team, assessment and support planning, transition assistance,
alternate payment methodology, case management, requirements for individual
care, elderly waiver case management services, screening team duties, and county
concurrence; requiring coordinated service and support plans and case management
services for home and community-based waiver recipients; making conforming
changes; modifying claims against estates filing requirements; requiring a
commissioner of human services legislative report relating to recommendations
for further case management redesign and study of county and tribal
administrative functions

ARTICLE 12 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

Requiring
the commissioner of human services to develop a manual of diagnostic codes to be
used to define child and adult mental illnesses for the statewide mental health
system; removing a children's mental health collaborative requirement for a base
level of expenditures continuance; making non-applicable the statute of
limitations limiting commissioner power to recover cost of care; modifying
commissioner authority regarding federal revenue enhancement for the family
services collaborative; requiring the commissioner to conduct a comprehensive
terminology audit relating to individuals with disabilities and report to the
legislature

ARTICLE 13 - HEALTH CARE

Excluding from the medical assistance
(MA) asset limitations for individuals and families certain American Indian
owned assets and premiums payment; modifying a period of ineligibility
elimination condition for long-term care services; requiring the commissioner of
human services to publish a list of active pharmaceutical ingredients and
excipients in the MA formulary; regulating over-the-counter dispensation
quantity; modifying pharmacist license requirements for MA reimbursement;
removing the eyeglasses cost-sharing allowance; adding a co-payment and
deductible exception for fee-for-service payments subject to volume purchase
through competitive bidding; modifying the managed care withhold for emergency
room utilization rate reduction; allowing the commissioner to contract with
demonstration providers and current or former sponsors of qualified Medicare
approved special needs plans; modifying managed care plan rate setting
performance withholds provisions; modifying the content requirement of MA liens;
repealing protections for American Indians

ARTICLE 14 - TECHNICAL

Making
technical changes relating to the nursing home beds moratorium
certification

ARTICLE 15 - DATA PRACTICES

Modifying welfare data
disclosure provisions and licensing denial and disqualification data treatment;
allowing human services licensing data, services for developmental disabilities,
and human services background studies to be shared with certain other
departments; modifying law enforcement data provisions

ARTICLE 16 -
LICENSING

Exempting school-age children child care from human services
licensing; modifying licensing , data practices, licensing application, grant of
license, residential facility education program completion, application denial,
license suspension, revocation, or fine, swimming pools, family day care and
group family day care providers, crib safety requirements, provider eligibility
payments from the chemical dependency consolidated treatment fund, independent
living assistance for youth, and the maltreatment of minors; modifying
provisions relating to the human services background studies act, human services
background studies, and human services hearings; repealing a certain
rule

ARTICLE 17 - PROGRAM INTEGRITY

Establishing provisions relating to
human services licensing public funding reimbursement; requiring attendance
records for publicly funded child care services; specifying monitoring
provisions for applicants or license holders receiving public funds compliance;
establishing compliance officers for individuals on medical assistance
(MA)

ARTICLE 18 - STATEWIDE PROVIDER ENROLLMENT, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, AND
PAYMENT METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Requiring department of human services
license holders to retain records in a manner allowing for commissioner review
and specifying electronic record keeping requirements; requiring state medical
assistance (MA) hearings to be consolidated; establishing additional standards
and procedures for home and community-based services; defining emergency and
incident for services for persons with developmental disabilities, requiring
annual reports, license holder policies and procedures knowledge by consumer,
specifying protection-related rights modifications, requiring license holders to
justify locked doors, modifying staff orientation, subcontractor policies, and
procedures copies availability requirements, prohibiting license holder
acceptance of consumer powers-of-attorney designation; Home and Community-Based
Services Standards (HCBS) standards; providing standards for home and
community-based services, defining terms, specifying applicability and effect of
regulations, service recipient rights, health services, protection standards,
service needs, record requirements, staffing standards, and policies and
procedures; establishing payment requirements and methodology and
development
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