Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF1966

E Relating to health; extending the expiration date of the medical education
research and advisory committee; limiting the responsibility of health insurers
to provide major medical coverage to applicants for new unqualified policies
under the Minnesota comprehensive health insurance act (MCHA), imposing a
lifetime benefit limit; defining uniform explanation of benefits document and
uniform remittance advice report and modifying certain uniform billing
requirements under the health care administrative simplification act;
prescribing standards for Minnesota uniform health care reimbursement documents;
providing an exception from the health care identification card requirement;
extending the expiration date of the medical education and research trust fund
advisory committee and shortening the life of the health care consumer advisory
board; requiring health plan companies executive compensation disclosure to the
commissioner of health in lieu of the board; providing for the allocation of
federal maternal and child health block grant money to community health boards,
requiring review by the maternal and child health advisory task force and
modifying certain authorized uses of the money; clarifying the registration
requirement for speech language pathologists and audiologists and modifying
certain training requirements, providing for temporary registration of certain
applicants; expanding the exclusions from the definition of unlicensed mental
health practitioner, prohibiting the practitioners from bartering for services
with clients and requiring practitioners subject to investigation to sign a
release authorizing the commissioner of health to obtain certain data; modifying
the definition of accredited school or educational program and certain core
functions and practice requirements of alcohol and drug counselors, modifying
certain duties of the commissioner, providing temporary practice requirements,
modifying certain licensure qualification requirements and grounds for
disciplinary action and clarifying certain background check requirements;
modifying certain requirements for certification of hearing aid dispensers and
certain authority of trainees, providing for reciprocal certification and
restricting the dispensing of hearing instruments to minors; repealing certain
provisions providing for allocation of maternal and child health block grants to
community health services areas and specifying certain additional licensing
requirements for alcohol and drug counselors (mk, ja)