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Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3813

1E Relating to the financing of state government; making supplemental
appropriations and reductions in appropriations for various state
agencies

ARTICLE 1- GENERAL FUND SUMMARY

Summarizing certain general fund
direct appropriations, appropriation reductions and transfers

ARTICLE 2 -
GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying certain duties of school superintendents relating
to reporting requirements for anticipated expenditures and passage rates,
modifying the annual report submittal date; modifying and clarifying certain
school district reciprocity agreement provisions; modifying tuition payment
requirements; authorizing the commissioner of education to enter into an
agreement with a designated authority from an adjoining state to establish
enrollment options programs with an adjoining state, specifying certain
agreement content requirements; providing for pupil accounting, requiring the
commissioner to establish certain procedures relating to applications, the
collection or payment of funds and the collection of data for implementation of
the agreement, specifying certain severance pay exceptions, providing
adjustments for special education tuition payments, establishing an equalizing
factor to assist in determining equity revenue; modifying the general education
transition revenue formula and setting the district transition allowance for
fiscal year 2009 and later, prescribing the tuition reciprocity revenue
transition formula, establishing an equalizing factor to assist in determining
transition revenue; expanding payment of aids to school districts requirements;
establishing an equalizing factor to assist in determining referendum
equalization levy; modifying the referendum revenue ballot language in cases of
renewal of referendum authority; authorizing intermediate school district boards
to borrow money in anticipation of the receipt of federal and state aids and
membership fees and tuition payments from member school districts, specifying
borrowing limitations; requiring enabling resolutions and certain notification
requirements, specifying certain aid reduction for repayment limitations and
certain repayment conditions for school districts and intermediate school
districts; modifying the abatement adjustment aid and excess tax increment
formulas to exclude general education levy and aid; appropriating money to the
department of education for independent school district #239, Rushford-Peterson
for school district flood enrollment impact aid and aid for increased
transportation costs; authorizing the department of education to limit the
participation in the alternative teacher pay program; establishing the
eligibility of independent school district #356, Lancaster for sparsity
adjustment aid; permitting a school district eligible to receive sparsity
revenue to levy to pay for transportation costs; repealing certain provisions
relating to teacher compensation, certain general education aid deductions along
with payments of aids and credits to certain school districts

ARTICLE 3 -
EDUCATION EXCELLENCE

Establishing a state virtual education program for
teachers and student instruction and learning enhancement and improvement;
establishing state measures for academic success, requiring a growth based value
added indicator of student achievement for statewide and local assessments,
defining certain terms, modifying certain statewide testing and reporting system
provisions, modifying certain educational accountability and public reporting
requirements, requiring the commissioner of education to aggregate certain
student performance data, requiring the commissioner to maintain a system for
student academic achievement and growth, modifying certain system component
requirements, specifying certain school district student academic achievement
levels for meeting federally mandated expectations, modifying educational
assessment system requirements, specifying certain duties of the commissioner
relating to establishing a new state growth norm applicable to students in a
particular grade for a particular year, specifying certain application
requirements for the state growth norm to students in grades 4 through 8,
specifying certain student performance reporting requirements, requiring the
commissioner to establish criteria for identifying school and school districts
demonstrating exceptional growth in order to advance educators professional
development and to replicate programs in meeting students diverse learning
needs; providing teacher licensure via portfolio, specifying certain application
content and fee requirements for candidates seeking licensure; modifying basic
alternative teacher compensation aid; requiring teacher institutes to assist
teachers in providing advanced training during summer months to licensed
mathematics and science teachers in the area of content knowledge and effective
instruction practices; authorizing certain school districts to enter into
cooperative agreements to provide pupil transportation upon a majority vote of
the school board; clarifying pupil notification regarding payment and intent to
enroll in online learning, modifying financial arrangements for postsecondary
courses; modifying the online learning program (online learning option act) by
requiring providers to report student progress to enrolling districts;
clarifying online learning standards; appropriating money for a statewide
testing and reporting system, preadvanced placement, advanced placement,
international baccalaureate and concurrent enrollment programs, the educational
planning and assessment system (EPAS) program, college-level examination program
(CLEP); requiring the commissioner to convene groups for implementing a student
growth based value added system for implementation of rigorous coursework
measures relating to student performance and for implementing measures for
assessing students self reported sense of school safety, engagement in school
and the quality of relationships with teachers, administrators and other
students for school report card purposes, specifying certain membership
requirements and duties, requiring reports to the legislature by a certain date;
appropriating money to the department of education, the Minnesota virtual
education program, mathematics and science teacher centers and institutes and
for certain best practice grants

ARTICLE 4 - FACILITIES AND
ACCOUNTING

Modifying the debt service appropriation for school facilities;
expanding the use of bonds for certain educational facilities; increasing
education levy authority for ice arenas; authorizing fund transfers for
independent school districts #411, Balaton; #2580, East Central; #671,
Hills-Beaver Creek: #750, Rocori and #706, Virginia; authorizing the eligibility
of independent school district #623, Roseville for the alternative facilities
bonding and levy program

ARTICLE 5 - NUTRITION

Increasing the K-12 school milk
reimbursement to schools by the commissioner of education; appropriating money
for traditional school breakfast aid and kindergarten milk

ARTICLE 6 - STATE
AGENCIES

Requiring the commissioner of education to create an American Indian
education committee to advise the commissioner; appropriating money for the
outdoor education working group, the administration of the online learning
program, the online learning advisory council, the state advisory board on early
learning, the administration of the school performance report card and the
academic achievement plan; authorizing the establishment of a outdoor education
working group

ARTICLE 7 - LIFELONG LEARNING

Modifying early education
developmental screening aid; modifying the calculation and amounts of certain
adult basic education supplemental service grants; clarifying replacement
revenue for independent school district #2899, Plainview-Elgin-Millville;
appropriating money for health and developmental screening aid; establishing the
office of early learning to coordinate a high quality early childhood system to
make early childhood and child care programs more effective and improve the
educational outcomes of children under the administration of the commissioners
of education, health and human services

ARTICLE 8 - PREKINDERGARTEN THROUGH
GRADE 12 EDUCATION FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

A. GENERAL EDUCATION

Modifying
appropriations for general education aid, referendum tax base
replacement aid,
enrollment options transportation, abatement revenue,
consolidation transition,
nonpublic pupil education aid and nonpublic pupil
transportation

B. EDUCATION
EXCELLENCE

Modifying appropriations for charter school building lease aid,
charter school startup cost aid, integration aid, interdistrict desegregation or
integration transportation grants and tribal contract school aid

C. SPECIAL
PROGRAMS

Modifying appropriations for aid to children with disabilities and
travel aid
for homebased services

D. FACILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY

Modifying
appropriations health and safety revenue, debt service equalization, deferred
maintenance aid and school technology and capital aid grants

E. NUTRITION


Modifying appropriations for school lunch and summer food service replacement
aid

F. EARLY CHILDHOOD AND ADULT PROGRAMS

Modifying appropriations for early
childhood family education (ECFE) aid, school readiness, community education
aid, adults with disabilities program aid and adult basic education aid

ARTICLE
9 - HIGHER EDUCATION

Summarizing higher education appropriations and
appropriation reductions; modifying appropriations to the office of higher
education for interstate tuition reciprocity, the Minnesota college savings plan
and modifying appropriations for agency administration, providing for certain
cancellations and transfers; appropriating money to the board of trustees of the
Minnesota state colleges and universities for the elimination of nonresident
tuition and for reciprocity tuition aid, providing for general reductions;
appropriating money to the regents of the university of Minnesota for global
modeling of health care reforms and economic analysis of health care reform
plans; modifying the assigned family responsibility for a students higher
education attendance cost; modifying the definition of resident student for
purposes of determining eligibility for state financial aid for higher education
to include a spouse or dependent of a resident veteran; clarifying
administrative funding for the teacher education and compensation helps (TEACH)
program grants for nonprofit organizations; modifying the disposition process of
certain surplus property owned my the Minnesota state colleges and universities;
modifying the eligibility of a spouse or a child of a public safety officer
killed in the line of duty to receive educational benefits; modifying certain
appropriations for state grants, the operation and maintenance of certain
programs within the higher education system and providing for transfers to the
Indian scholarship appropriation; requiring the commissioner of health to award
a grant to the university of Minnesota to develop a model to assess the impact
of proposed health care reforms or major health care related legislation on all
sectors of the health care system requiring the commissioner of health to award
a grant to the university of Minnesota to conduct a study and economic analysis
of costs and benefits of various health care reform proposals including an
analysis of the recommendations of the legislative health care access; repealing
the achieve scholarship program

ARTICLE 10 - ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL
RESOURCES

Providing a summary of appropriations by fund; reducing certain
prior
appropriations to the pollution control agency for water, multi media
and
administration, commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for the lands
and
minerals budget and iron ore cooperative agreements, water resource
management, parks and recreation and fish and wildlife management, ecological
services, enforcement budget and for operations support, board of water and soil
resources (BOWSR) for cost sharing contract for native buffers, county
cooperative weed management programs, drainage assistance program and
rehabilitation, erosion and sediment control projects, and to the metropolitan
council for metropolitan area regional parks maintenance and operation;
appropriating money to the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) for forest,
trails and waterways management and modifying prior appropriation requirements;
providing for expedited exchanges of public land involving the state and
governmental subdivisions of the state; specifying classes of land involved in
expedited exchanges; providing for the determination of the valuation of land;
requiring examination of title by involved parties; requiring unanimous approval
of the land exchange board; providing for the conveyance process; requiring
deeds to include a reverter under certain conditions; specifying status for
certain classes of land; modifying restrictions and penalties for wildlife
feeding within a certain area of the infected cattle herd; establishing the
outdoor heritage fund and creating the forest fragmentation and consolidation
account and the conservation partners account within the fund, providing for
allocation of expenditures; creating the Lessard-Heritage enhancement council,
specifying membership requirements, requiring the governor to appoint an outdoor
heritage fund citizen selection committee and specifying certain duties of the
committee; requiring the council to adopt a strategic plan; specifying council
duties and administration; providing for open meetings; modifying certain
environmental quality board assessment requirements; providing a process for
designating star lakes and rivers; providing for application and eligibility;
requiring a comprehensive lake or river management plan; creating the star lake
board as a nonprofit corporation, specifying powers and duties, specifying board
membership; modifying certain water use permit processing fees; providing for
the authority of county, statutory or home rule charter cities and towns to
erect star lake or river signs, specifying sign standards, specifying first
meeting and deadline for appointment requirements; modifying certain forest
management appropriations; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR)
to complete rulemaking to update rules on structures in public waters and permit
requirements

ARTICLE 11 - ENERGY

Summarizing energy appropriations and
appropriations reductions; modifying appropriations for commerce, energy and
telecommunications purposes; modifying appropriations to the public utilities
commission; providing for direction to conform state economic development
policies with state environmental policy; defining the term green economy to
include certain products and processes, methods, technologies or services;
requiring the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) and the
job skills partnership board to cooperate to promote job training to complement
green economy business development; requiring the commissioner to analyze all
state grant and loan programs and develop a program to optimize green economy
growth and report to the legislature by a certain date; creating the green
economy transformation task force to advise and assist the governor and
legislature regarding activities to transform the economy of the state and
develop a statewide action plan; specifying membership and duties, sunset
provision; requiring a statewide action plan to be presented to the legislature
and the governor by a certain date

ARTICLE 12 - AGRICULTURE

Summarizing
agriculture appropriations and appropriation reductions; modifying
appropriations for livestock investment grants, ethanol producer payments;
appropriating money to the board of animal health for a grant to the North
Central Research Center at Grand Rapids for a study of bovine tuberculosis and
for payments for cattle owners to remove cattle herds located within the bovine
tuberculosis management zone; establishing a livestock investment grant program,
defining certain terms, specifying eligibility for the program, specifying
commissioner of agriculture review process for certification of eligible
applicants; defining bovine tuberculosis management zone, providing for the
buyout of certain cattle by the board of animal health, requiring the board to
conduct a risk assessment for cattle continuing to be located within the bovine
tuberculosis management zone, providing fencing cost sharing assistance to
certain cattle producers, granting the board of animal health the authority to
control tuberculosis and the movement of cattle, bison and farmed cervidae
within and between tuberculosis zones in the state, providing for the
designation of zones, specifying the authority of the board to control cattle,
bison and farmed cervidae within modified accredited zones, requiring the
commissioner of agriculture to collect a bovine tuberculosis control assessment
for each head of cattle

ARTICLE 13 - VETERANS AFFAIRS

Summarizing veterans
affairs appropriations and appropriations reductions; modifying appropriations
to the department of veterans affairs for soldiers assistance, the LinkVet
linkage line, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) outreach and education, additional state veterans case workers for
comprehensive individual assistance, a northern Minnesota veterans cemetery, the
Minnesota assistance council for homelessness assistance, state navigator
positions, the veterans claims office for outreach and training and for a female
veterans service officer/coordinator position, the Minnesota ambulance
association to implement a veterans paramedic apprenticeship program, for
veterans affairs marketing and for a veterans homes strategic planning study;
appropriating money in the world war II memorial donation match account after
state construction costs payment to the commissioner of veterans affairs for
veterans and families services and programs; specifying uses of money
appropriated to the department of veterans affairs from the support our troops
account

ARTICLE 14 - MILITARY AFFAIRS

Summarizing military affairs
appropriations and appropriations reductions; modifying appropriations to the
department of military affairs for the guard and reserve program employer
support state enhancement (ESGR), recertifying national guard medics biannual
bonus payments, state navigator positions and a study of the national guard
youth challenge program; appropriating money in the "support our troops" account
equally to the departments of military affairs and veterans affairs, permitting
department of military affairs expenditures on grants to family readiness groups
and permitting department of veterans affairs expenditures on grants to veterans
service organizations and outreach to underserved veterans; authorizing the
adjutant general to sell timber on the camp Ripley military field training
center land, requiring deposit of proceeds and appropriation for camp Ripley
timber resources management; authorizing the adjutant general to establish and
administer a state enhancement to the federal employer support of guard and
reserve (ESGR) program, requiring policy and guidelines development, authorizing
the adjutant general to establish a program to provide a recertification bonus
to recertifying emergency medical technicians (EMT) national guard members,
specifying eligibility; requiring the adjutant general and the department of
military affairs to study participation by the Minnesota national guard youth
challenge program, specifying components of study, requiring a report to the
legislature by a certain date

ARTICLE 15 - ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Summarizing
economic development appropriations and appropriations reductions; instructing
the commissioner of commerce to transfer money from certain funds into the
general fund, modifying appropriations to the commissioner of employment and
economic development (DEED) for business and community development, for a major
economic design nanotechnology project and workforce development, to Explore
Minnesota tourism for the Minnesota film and TV board, to the housing finance
agency, to the Minnesota historical society for the sesquicentennial commission
and to the board of arts; requiring certain fund transfers and cancellations;
modifying certain filing fee and refund requirements under regulation of
securities provisions; authorizing the commissioner of employment and economic
development to make infrastructure grants counties or county regional rail
authorities; establishing a military reservist economic injury loan program,
authorizing the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to
make onetime interest free loans up to a certain amount to eligible borrowers
sustaining substantial economic injury as a result of the call to active service
of an essential employee, requiring use of a revolving loan account and
expedited rules adoption process, extending state dislocated worker program
benefits to certain veterans, adding an unemployment insurance benefits tax
calculation exception for employers in cases of military reservist replacement
worker lay off; requiring institutions to provide for grant funded project
summary results dissemination; allowing the job skills partnership board to use
a portion of funds to collect and disseminate activities information and
requiring the board to plan for statewide information dissemination; authorizing
the Minnesota film and TV board to make reimbursements to for film production
under certain conditions; modifying certain duties of the iron range resources
and rehabilitation board; requiring the public facilities authority to make
funds available for wastewater infrastructures based on pollution control agency
(PCA) priority list ranking and requiring funds reservation upon applicant
federal commitment receipt or PCA plan submission, increasing public facilities
authority grant funding, establishing and providing for a credit enhanced bond
program to provide governmental unit loans through governmental units general
obligation bonds purchased for purpose of project financing, requiring the
authority to obtain funds to make loans through revenue bonds issuance payable
from loan repayments pledged to the bonds, establishing a fund and accounts;
permitting revenue bond issuance by the authority, specifying a bonding limit;
providing for an increase in assistance to an individual or a family to prevent
mortgage foreclosure; authorizing and providing for nonprofit housing bonds and
appropriating money to pay the debt service, establishing the nonprofit housing
bond account, increasing the bond fund debt ceiling; modifying city gas
distribution procedure in the city of Nashwauk; forgiving loan repayments on a
loan to the city of St. Paul to finance the St. Paul RiverCentre after a certain
number of years of payment; modifying a certain loan repayment provision by the
Upper Red Lake business loan program; modifying certain Itasca county
infrastructure appropriations; establishing an expiration date for an
appropriation to Minnesota Technology, Inc.; providing for taconite production
tax distributions for the Hibbing economic development authority and St. Louis
county school district #2142 for consolidation study purposes; defining economic
hardship and specifying notice and payment requirements; providing for
additional unemployment insurance benefits to workers laid off from the
Ainsworth Lumber Company in the city of Cook, specifying certain notice and
eligibility requirements

ARTICLE 16 - TRANSPORTATION

Summarizing
transportation appropriations and appropriation reductions; modifying
appropriations for the state roads, for certain transfers from the rail service
improvement account, for a security coordinator for the republican national
convention and to the university of Minnesota for a value capture study;
modifying the fee amount charged for vehicle title transfer, modifying deposit
of fee

ARTICLE 17 - PUBLIC SAFETY

Summarizing public safety appropriations and
appropriations reductions; modifying appropriations for public safety purposes
including emergency management, criminal apprehension, alcohol and gambling
enforcement and the office of justice programs; providing for general agency
operation reductions; reducing certain appropriations relating to human rights
and corrections including to correctional institutions and for certain community
services and operations support; modifying certain transfers and allocation in
the fire safety account; modifying transfers from the peace officer standards
and training (POST) board to the general fund

ARTICLE 18 -
JUDICIARY

Summarizing judiciary appropriations and appropriations reductions,
modifying appropriations to the supreme court, court of appeals, district courts
and the board of public defense; modifying the surcharge on license tab
violations for collection by district court administrators, modifying the
disbursement of surcharges by the commissioner of finance; authorizing the
judicial branch to accept electronic fund transfer, permitting the judiciary to
impose a convenience fee on transactions, specifying the access to electronic
fund transfer data; repealing a certain provision permitting payment of
correctional fees by a credit card

ARTICLE 19 - STATE GOVERNMENT

Summarizing
state government appropriations and appropriations reductions; modifying
appropriations to the legislature including the senate, house of representatives
and the legislative coordinating commission and canceling a balance carried
forward to the general fund; modifying appropriations to the governor, to the
state auditor, to the attorney general, to the secretary of state, to the office
of enterprise technology and authorizing transfers to the general fund, to the
department of administration including state facilities services, state and
community services, administrative management services, and providing for
transfers to the general fund, to the finance department including state
financial management and information and management services, to the departments
of employee relations and revenue; establishing tax debtor data match system,
defining certain terms, specifying the commissioner of revenue process for
providing data, specifying access to certain data, permitting financial
institutions to charge the commissioner fees for providing certain information,
establishing penalty for financial institutions who fail to respond to written
requests for information, specifying debtor confidentiality and financial
institution immunity, providing for civil action for unauthorized disclosure by
a financial institution; modifying the number of and duties of certain deputy
and assistant commissioners; authorizing and providing for state employees to be
granted leave from work for blood donation purposes, providing for no effect on
vacation, sick and other leave, requiring employee to provide notice;
authorizing employers to grant employee leave for blood donation purposes;
requiring the commissioner of transportation (DOT) to appoint a deputy
commissioner/chief engineer requiring the deputy/chief engineer to be a licensed
professional engineer; establishing a statewide licensing system surcharge;
providing for certain appropriations, budget reserve cash flow, professional and
technical contracts and nonessential travel reductions by the commissioner of
finance; repealing an appropriation to the Minnesota amateur sports
commission

ARTICLE 20 - HEALTH CARE

Emergency medical services regulatory
board service credit value clarification; authorizing the commissioner of health
to approve and implement additional projects with one or more county based
purchasing plans; modifying beneficiary and medical assistance eligibility for
the Minnesota partnership for long term care program; expanding the role of the
health services policy committee; modifying the payment rates for drug
acquisitions; modifying the medical assistance (MA) co-payments for certain
people; amending the MA reimbursement collection process; authorizing the
commissioner of human services to withhold an additional amount for prepaid
medical assistance and general assistance medical care programs; reducing the
total payment for fee for services made to hospitals for outpatient hospital
facilities before third party liability and spenddown; requiring the
commissioner to identify certain unnecessary and ineffective health care
services and report to the legislature by a certain date; authorizing the
commissioner of human services in consultation with the commissioner of health
to determine the excess surplus and administrative costs of each health
maintenance organization (HMO) and county based purchasing plan

ARTICLE 21 -
MINNESOTA SEX OFFENDER PROGRAM (MSOP)

Authorizing the commissioner of human
services to establish, equip, maintain and operate the Minnesota state
industries at any sex offender program facility, establishing a revolving fund
and providing for disbursements from the fund, authorizing commissioner to
borrow from the fund, providing for federal grant fund transfers, providing for
patient wages; providing for petitions for a reduction in custody of persons
committee as mentally ill and dangerous; modifying the definition of vulnerable
adult; instructing the commissioner of human services to convene a working group
to develop standards and guidelines for the operations of the Minnesota sex
offender program

ARTICLE 22 - CHILDREN AND FAMLIY SERVICES

Modifying certain
powers of the commissioner of human services relating to foster care; defining
child support, arrears and maintenance; modifying provisions relating to
assignment of support and maintenance rights; modifying provisions relating to
distribution of child support; making certain technical modifications to
Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) provisions; modifying the MFIP
transitional standard; modifying the eligibility maintenance procedure for
hardship extensions; eliminating the self-employment investment demonstration
program (SEID) from the definition of work activity; modifying certain family
violence waiver criteria provisions; clarifying the eligibility for the
consolidated fund, modifying the effective date for the expiration of cash
support benefits; prohibiting a county or tribe from imposing a residency
requirement on families, exception; modifying the MFIP work participation
program; modifying performance based funds allocation for counties and tribes;
modifying provisions relating to child support order payments to public
agencies; clarifying payer of funds responsibilities relating to paid amounts;
modifying the temporary aid for needy families (TANF) supported work for MFIP
participants appropriation; modifying the appropriation for prekindergarten
exploratory projects; increasing the long term homelessness appropriation;
repealing provisions relating to child support distribution and an MFIP family
cap

ARTICLE 23 - CONTINUING CARE

Modifying certain targeted case management
provisions; authorizing the commissioner of human services to award through a
competitive process contracts for grants to public and private agencies to
support and assist individuals eligible for publicly funded home and
community-based services to access housing; modifying the rate year structure
for ICF/MR rate increases; requiring demonstration providers providing nursing
home and community-based services to provide relocation service coordination to
enrolled persons age 65 and over; expanding general assistance (GA) shelter
needy eligibility to self-directed supports option participants and home and
community-based waiver recipients living independently, extending the
state-funded transitional supports allowance to certain persons eligible for
shelter needy funding; requiring counties overspending in calendar year 2004 and
2005 under the waivered services program for persons with developmental
disabilities to pay back overspending by a certain date; modifying the month
provider rate increases go into effect

ARTICLE 24 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
FORECAST ADJUSTMENTS

Providing for a summary of appropriations and
appropriation reductions; providing for the department of human services
forecast adjustment; reducing appropriations for children and economic
assistance grants, basic health care grants and continuing care grants

ARTICLE
25 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS

Summarizing health and human
services appropriations and appropriations reductions; modifying human services
appropriations for agency management financial operations; revenue and
pass-through revenue expenditures including for TANF maintenance of effort (MOE)
purposes, working family credit expenditures claimed as TANF/MOE and additional
working family credit expenditures to be claimed for TANF/MOE; for children and
economic assistance grants including MFIP/DWP grants, support services grants
including supported work, basic sliding fee child care assistance grants
including the child care and development fund unexpended balance, child care
development grants, children's services grants, children and community services
grants, Minnesota supplemental aid grants, group residential housing grants and
other children's and economic assistance grants; for auto repairs and purchases;
for basic health care grants such as MinnesotaCare grants, medical assistance
(MA) basic health care grants for families and children including implementing
hospital payment delay, third party liability activities, fee for service
payment reductions as well as limiting administrative costs, MA basic health
care grants to the elderly and disabled including the development of the
Minnesota disability health options rate setting methodology, general assistance
medical care grants and other health care grants including a transfer from the
MinnesotaCare outreach grants special revenue account to the general fund;
continuing care grants including aging and adult services grants, MA long-term
care facility grants including a delay in the long term care provider rate
adjustment, MA long term care waivers and home care grants including personal
care services, limiting the caseload growth in the traumatic brain injury (TBI)
and community alternatives for disabled individuals (CADI) waivers, mental
health grants with funding usage specifications; deaf and hard-of-hearing
grants, chemical dependency entitlement grants including transferring funds from
the chemical dependency treatment fund special revenue account to the general
fund; chemical dependency nonentitlement grants and other continuing care grants
including housing access grants, developmental disability semi-independent
living services grants and developmental disability family support grants; for
state operated services including withholding county past due receivables, an
internet-based resource chemical dependency treatment program, community
behavioral hospitals dealing with mental health services and sex offender
services and per diem rates for the Minnesota sex offender program; modifying
health department appropriations including items relating to community and
family health such as the Minnesota ENABL program; for policy, quality and
compliance grants; for health protection; for minority and multicultural health
and for administrative support services; modifying appropriations to the
veterans home board; modifying appropriations to certain health related boards
including the board of nursing home administrators and the board of marriage and
family therapy; modifying appropriations to the emergency medical services board
for the longevity award and incentive program; modifying the appropriation to
the medical education and research cost (MERC) program for federal compliance;
modifying an appropriation to the veterans nursing home board for repair and
betterment activities; establishing a sunset date for certain uncodified
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