HF 1160

as introduced - 80th Legislature (1997 - 1998) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to health; requiring the commissioner of 
  1.3             health to conduct an education campaign to prevent 
  1.4             prenatal transmission of HIV and to provide 
  1.5             demonstration grants; clarifying that prenatal HIV 
  1.6             testing and counseling is covered under medical 
  1.7             assistance; requiring sellers of HIV home collection 
  1.8             kits to provide purchasers with specified information; 
  1.9             requiring the commissioner of health to study the HIV 
  1.10            and HBV prevention program; requiring employers of 
  1.11            peace officers and correctional guards to adopt a 
  1.12            protocol for certain emergency medical services 
  1.13            personnel; authorizing testing for HIV or hepatitis B 
  1.14            under certain circumstances; permitting the sale of 
  1.15            ten or fewer unused hypodermic needles or syringes 
  1.16            without a prescription; appropriating money; amending 
  1.17            Minnesota Statutes 1996, sections 144.761, 
  1.18            subdivisions 5 and 7; 144.762, subdivision 2, and by 
  1.19            adding a subdivision; 144.765; 144.767, subdivision 1; 
  1.20            151.40; 152.01, subdivision 18; 256B.0625, subdivision 
  1.21            14; 611A.19, subdivision 1, and by adding a 
  1.22            subdivision; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota 
  1.23            Statutes, chapters 145; 325F. 
  1.24  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.25                             ARTICLE 1
  1.26                    HIV PREVENTION AND EDUCATION
  1.27     Section 1.  [145.9241] [PREVENTION OF PERINATAL 
  1.28  TRANSMISSION OF HIV.] 
  1.29     The commissioner shall conduct a statewide education 
  1.30  campaign to educate pregnant women and health care providers 
  1.31  about the risk of perinatal transmission of HIV and the value of 
  1.32  HIV screening early in pregnancy.  The commissioner shall also 
  1.33  provide demonstration grants to health care providers to allow 
  1.34  these providers to develop procedures for incorporating HIV 
  2.1   awareness and education into prenatal care. 
  2.2      Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 256B.0625, 
  2.3   subdivision 14, is amended to read: 
  2.4      Subd. 14.  [DIAGNOSTIC, SCREENING, AND PREVENTIVE 
  2.5   SERVICES.] (a) Medical assistance covers diagnostic, screening, 
  2.6   and preventive services.  
  2.7      (b) "Preventive services" include services related to 
  2.8   pregnancy, including: 
  2.9      (1) services for those conditions which may complicate a 
  2.10  pregnancy and which may be available to a pregnant woman 
  2.11  determined to be at risk of poor pregnancy outcome; and 
  2.12     (2) prenatal HIV risk assessment, education, counseling, 
  2.13  and testing.  Preventive services available to a woman at risk 
  2.14  of poor pregnancy outcome may differ in an amount, duration, or 
  2.15  scope from those available to other individuals eligible for 
  2.16  medical assistance. 
  2.17     (c) "Screening services" include, but are not limited to, 
  2.18  blood lead tests. 
  2.19     Sec. 3.  [325F.785] [SALES OF HIV HOME COLLECTION KITS.] 
  2.20     Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITION.] For purposes of this section, 
  2.21  "seller" means a person who regularly sells goods at retail to 
  2.22  purchasers. 
  2.23     Subd. 2.  [PROVISION OF INFORMATION REQUIRED.] Effective 
  2.24  January 1, 1998, a seller shall provide each purchaser of an HIV 
  2.25  home collection kit, at the time of purchase, with written 
  2.26  information about the phone numbers for public HIV counseling 
  2.27  and testing sites and the state's HIV hotline. 
  2.28     Sec. 4.  [MATERIALS RELATED TO COUNSELING AND TESTING.] 
  2.29     The commissioner of health shall provide technical 
  2.30  assistance to pharmacies and to sellers related to compliance 
  2.31  with Minnesota Statutes, sections 151.40 and 325F.785.  The 
  2.32  commissioner shall develop printed materials, including the 
  2.33  written information described under Minnesota Statutes, section 
  2.34  325F.785, and shall provide these printed materials at no charge 
  2.35  to pharmacies that sell hypodermic needles or syringes under 
  2.36  Minnesota Statutes, section 151.40 and sellers of HIV home 
  3.1   collection kits under Minnesota Statutes, section 325F.785.  A 
  3.2   pharmacy or seller may request and the commissioner may 
  3.3   authorize use of other methods for providing written information 
  3.4   to purchasers. 
  3.5      Sec. 5.  [STUDY OF HIV AND HBV PREVENTION PROGRAM.] 
  3.6      The commissioner of health shall evaluate the effectiveness 
  3.7   of the HIV and HBV prevention program established under 
  3.8   Minnesota Statutes, sections 214.17 to 214.25.  The commissioner 
  3.9   shall evaluate the effectiveness of the program in preventing or 
  3.10  reducing HIV and HBV infection relative to the cost of the 
  3.11  program, and shall compare the effectiveness and cost of the 
  3.12  program to the effectiveness and costs of HIV and HBV prevention 
  3.13  programs in other states.  The commissioner shall present 
  3.14  recommendations to the legislature by January 15, 1998, on 
  3.15  whether the program should be continued, and whether 
  3.16  modifications to the program are necessary if a recommendation 
  3.17  is made to continue the program. 
  3.18     Sec. 6.  [DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR HIV EDUCATION IN 
  3.19  SCHOOLS.] 
  3.20     The commissioner of children, families, and learning shall 
  3.21  establish a demonstration project to provide grants to school 
  3.22  districts to develop effective strategies and programs to 
  3.23  prevent and reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS as required under 
  3.24  Minnesota Statutes, section 121.203.  In selecting school 
  3.25  districts to participate in the demonstration project, the 
  3.26  commissioner shall give first priority to school districts 
  3.27  located outside of the seven-county metropolitan area, and 
  3.28  second priority to school districts in the seven-county 
  3.29  metropolitan area that are located outside of the cities of 
  3.30  Minneapolis and St. Paul.  The commissioner shall issue a 
  3.31  request for proposals by October 1, 1997, and shall select 
  3.32  school districts by December 15, 1997.  The commissioner shall 
  3.33  evaluate the demonstration projects and by June 15, 1999, 
  3.34  develop model programs for school districts to use in 
  3.35  implementing Minnesota Statutes, section 121.203. 
  3.36     Sec. 7.  [APPROPRIATIONS.] 
  4.1      Subdivision 1.  [HIV/AIDS PREVENTION GRANTS.] An additional 
  4.2   $5,160,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  4.3   commissioner of health for the biennium ending June 30, 1999, to 
  4.4   provide funding for HIV/AIDS prevention grants under Minnesota 
  4.5   Statutes, section 145.924.  Of this amount, $160,000 is 
  4.6   appropriated to the commissioner for the biennium for costs 
  4.7   related to administering and monitoring the additional grant 
  4.8   dollars. 
  4.9      Subd. 2.  [CONTROL OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES.] An 
  4.10  additional $650,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  4.11  commissioner of health for the biennium ending June 30, 1999, to 
  4.12  conduct core public health functions related to the prevention 
  4.13  and control of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia.  These 
  4.14  functions include but are not limited to assessing the current 
  4.15  level of screening by health care providers, encouraging and 
  4.16  supporting screening by providers, and developing prevalence 
  4.17  studies and enhanced prevention strategies. 
  4.18     Subd. 3.  [PREVENTION OF PERINATAL TRANSMISSION OF 
  4.19  HIV.] $300,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  4.20  commissioner of health for the biennium ending June 30, 1999, 
  4.21  for activities related to prevention of perinatal transmission 
  4.22  of HIV under section 1.  Of this amount, $125,000 is 
  4.23  appropriated in fiscal year 1998 and $100,000 is appropriated in 
  4.24  fiscal year 1999 to conduct a statewide education campaign for 
  4.25  pregnant women and their health care providers, and $75,000 is 
  4.26  appropriated for the biennium for demonstration grants to 
  4.27  providers to develop procedures for incorporating HIV awareness 
  4.28  and education into perinatal care.  
  4.29     Subd. 4.  [MATERIALS RELATED TO COUNSELING AND 
  4.30  TESTING.] $30,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  4.31  commissioner of health for the biennium ending June 30, 1999, to 
  4.32  implement section 4. 
  4.33     Subd. 5.  [STUDY OF HIV AND HBV PREVENTION 
  4.34  PROGRAM.] $25,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  4.35  commissioner of health for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, 
  4.36  to implement section 5. 
  5.1      Subd. 6.  [DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR HIV EDUCATION IN 
  5.2   SCHOOLS.] $600,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  5.3   commissioner of children, families, and learning for the 
  5.4   biennium ending June 30, 1999, to implement section 6. 
  5.5                              ARTICLE 2
  5.6                     TESTING AND OTHER PROVISIONS
  5.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 144.761, 
  5.8   subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
  5.9      Subd. 5.  [EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL.] 
  5.10  "Emergency medical services personnel" means: 
  5.11     (1) individuals employed to provide prehospital emergency 
  5.12  medical services; 
  5.13     (2) persons employed as licensed police officers under 
  5.14  section 626.84, subdivision 1, and correctional guards, 
  5.15  including security guards at the Minnesota security hospital, 
  5.16  employed by the state or a local unit of government, who 
  5.17  experience a significant exposure in the performance of their 
  5.18  duties; 
  5.19     (3) firefighters, paramedics, emergency medical 
  5.20  technicians, licensed nurses, rescue squad personnel, or other 
  5.21  individuals who serve as employees or volunteers of an ambulance 
  5.22  service as defined by sections 144.801 to 144.8091, who provide 
  5.23  prehospital emergency medical services; 
  5.24     (4) crime lab personnel receiving a significant exposure 
  5.25  while involved in a criminal investigation; and 
  5.26     (5) correctional guards, including security guards at the 
  5.27  Minnesota security hospital, employed by the state or a local 
  5.28  unit of government who experience a significant exposure to an 
  5.29  inmate who is transported to a facility for emergency medical 
  5.30  care; and 
  5.31     (6) other persons who render emergency care or assistance 
  5.32  at the scene of an emergency, or while an injured person is 
  5.33  being transported to receive medical care, and who would qualify 
  5.34  for immunity from liability under the good samaritan law, 
  5.35  section 604A.01. 
  5.36     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 144.761, 
  6.1   subdivision 7, is amended to read: 
  6.2      Subd. 7.  [SIGNIFICANT EXPOSURE.] "Significant exposure" 
  6.3   means: 
  6.4      (1) contact, in a manner supported by contemporary 
  6.5   epidemiological research as a significant method of HIV or 
  6.6   hepatitis B transmission, of the broken skin or mucous membrane 
  6.7   of emergency medical services personnel with a patient's blood, 
  6.8   amniotic fluid, pericardial fluid, peritoneal fluid, pleural 
  6.9   fluid, synovial fluid, cerebrospinal fluid, semen, vaginal 
  6.10  secretions, or bodily fluids grossly contaminated with blood; 
  6.11     (2) a needle stick, scalpel or instrument wound, or other 
  6.12  wound inflicted by an object that is contaminated with blood, 
  6.13  and that is capable of cutting or puncturing the skin of 
  6.14  emergency medical services personnel; or 
  6.15     (3) an exposure that occurs by any other method of 
  6.16  transmission recognized by contemporary epidemiological 
  6.17  standards as a significant exposure. 
  6.18     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 144.762, 
  6.19  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  6.20     Subd. 2.  [REQUIREMENTS FOR PROTOCOL.] The postexposure 
  6.21  notification protocol must include the following: 
  6.22     (1) a method for emergency medical services personnel to 
  6.23  notify the facility that they may have experienced a significant 
  6.24  exposure from a patient that was transported to the facility.  
  6.25  The facility shall provide to the emergency medical services 
  6.26  personnel a significant exposure report form to be completed by 
  6.27  the emergency medical services personnel in a timely fashion; 
  6.28     (2) a process to investigate and determine whether a 
  6.29  significant exposure has occurred.  This investigation must be 
  6.30  completed within 72 hours of receipt of the exposure report, or 
  6.31  within a time period that will enable the patient to benefit 
  6.32  from contemporary standards of care for reducing the risk of 
  6.33  infection; 
  6.34     (3) if there has been a significant exposure, a process to 
  6.35  determine whether the patient has hepatitis B or HIV infection; 
  6.36     (4) if the patient has an infectious disease that could be 
  7.1   transmitted by the type of exposure that occurred, or, if it is 
  7.2   not possible to determine what disease the patient may have, a 
  7.3   process for making recommendations for appropriate counseling 
  7.4   and testing to the emergency medical services personnel; 
  7.5      (5) compliance with applicable state and federal laws 
  7.6   relating to data practices, confidentiality, informed consent, 
  7.7   and the patient bill of rights; and 
  7.8      (6) a process for providing counseling for the patient to 
  7.9   be tested and for the emergency medical services personnel 
  7.10  filing the exposure report. 
  7.11     Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 144.762, is 
  7.12  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  7.13     Subd. 2a.  [PROTOCOL FOR PEACE OFFICERS AND CORRECTIONAL 
  7.14  GUARDS.] Employers of peace officers and correctional guards 
  7.15  shall adopt a postexposure notification protocol for emergency 
  7.16  medical services personnel, as defined in section 144.761, 
  7.17  subdivision 5, clause (2), who have experienced a significant 
  7.18  exposure in a case where a patient was not transported to an 
  7.19  emergency medical services agency.  The protocol must include 
  7.20  the following: 
  7.21     (1) a method for the emergency medical services personnel 
  7.22  to notify the facility that they may have experienced a 
  7.23  significant exposure in the performance of their duties; 
  7.24     (2) a method for the employer to notify the patient that an 
  7.25  emergency medical services personnel has presented notice in 
  7.26  accordance with the protocol provided in clause (1); and 
  7.27     (3) a process for transferring the emergency medical 
  7.28  services personnel and the patient to an emergency medical 
  7.29  services agency, or for bringing a qualified representative and 
  7.30  the services of an emergency medical services agency to the 
  7.31  facility in which the patient is being held for an assessment in 
  7.32  accordance with the protocol provided in subdivisions 1 and 2. 
  7.33     Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 144.765, is 
  7.34  amended to read: 
  7.35     144.765 [PATIENT'S RIGHT TO REFUSE TESTING.] 
  7.36     (a) Upon notification of a significant exposure, the 
  8.1   facility shall ask the patient to consent to blood testing to 
  8.2   determine the presence of the HIV virus or the hepatitis B 
  8.3   virus.  The patient shall be informed that the test results 
  8.4   without personally identifying information will be reported to 
  8.5   the emergency medical services personnel.  If the patient has 
  8.6   been charged with a criminal offense, the patient shall have 
  8.7   legal counsel present when asked to consent to blood testing and 
  8.8   during counseling. 
  8.9      (b) The patient shall be informed of the right to refuse to 
  8.10  be tested.  If the patient refuses to be tested, the patient's 
  8.11  refusal will be forwarded to the emergency medical services 
  8.12  agency and to the emergency medical services personnel.  The 
  8.13  right to refuse a blood test under the circumstances described 
  8.14  in this section does not apply to a prisoner who is in the 
  8.15  custody or under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of 
  8.16  corrections or a local correctional authority as a result of a 
  8.17  criminal conviction. 
  8.18     Sec. 6.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 144.767, 
  8.19  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  8.20     Subdivision 1.  [REPORT TO EMPLOYER.] Results of tests 
  8.21  conducted under this section shall be reported by the facility 
  8.22  to a designated agent of the emergency medical services agency 
  8.23  that employs or uses the emergency medical services personnel 
  8.24  and to the emergency medical services personnel who report the 
  8.25  significant exposure.  The test results shall be reported 
  8.26  without personally identifying information and may not be used 
  8.27  as evidence in any criminal prosecution. 
  8.28     Sec. 7.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 151.40, is 
  8.29  amended to read: 
  8.30     151.40 [POSSESSION AND SALE OF HYPODERMIC SYRINGES AND 
  8.31  NEEDLES.] 
  8.32     Subdivision 1.  [GENERALLY.] Except as otherwise provided 
  8.33  in subdivision 2, it shall be is unlawful for any person to 
  8.34  possess, control, manufacture, sell, furnish, dispense, or 
  8.35  otherwise dispose of hypodermic syringes or needles or any 
  8.36  instrument or implement which can be adapted for subcutaneous 
  9.1   injections, except by the following persons when acting in the 
  9.2   course of their practice or employment: licensed practitioners, 
  9.3   registered pharmacies and their employees or agents, licensed 
  9.4   pharmacists, licensed doctors of veterinary medicine or their 
  9.5   assistants, registered nurses, registered medical technologists, 
  9.6   medical interns, licensed drug wholesalers, their employees or 
  9.7   agents, licensed hospitals, licensed nursing homes, bona fide 
  9.8   hospitals where animals are treated, licensed morticians, 
  9.9   syringe and needle manufacturers, their dealers and agents, 
  9.10  persons engaged in animal husbandry, clinical laboratories, 
  9.11  persons engaged in bona fide research or education or industrial 
  9.12  use of hypodermic syringes and needles provided such persons 
  9.13  cannot use hypodermic syringes and needles for the 
  9.14  administration of drugs to human beings unless such drugs are 
  9.15  prescribed, dispensed, and administered by a person lawfully 
  9.16  authorized to do so, persons who administer drugs pursuant to an 
  9.17  order or direction of a licensed doctor of medicine or of a 
  9.18  licensed doctor of osteopathy duly licensed to practice medicine.
  9.19     Subd. 2.  [SALES OF LIMITED QUANTITIES OF CLEAN NEEDLES AND 
  9.20  SYRINGES.] (a) A registered pharmacy or its agent or a licensed 
  9.21  pharmacist may sell, without a prescription, unused hypodermic 
  9.22  needles and syringes in quantities of ten or fewer, provided 
  9.23  that the pharmacy or pharmacist complies with all of the 
  9.24  requirements of this subdivision. 
  9.25     (b) At any location where hypodermic needles and syringes 
  9.26  are kept for retail sale under this subdivision, the needles and 
  9.27  syringes shall be stored in a manner that makes them available 
  9.28  only to authorized personnel and not openly available to 
  9.29  customers. 
  9.30     (c) No registered pharmacy or licensed pharmacist may 
  9.31  advertise to the public the availability for retail sale, 
  9.32  without a prescription, of hypodermic needles or syringes in 
  9.33  quantities of ten or fewer. 
  9.34     (d) A registered pharmacy or licensed pharmacist that sells 
  9.35  hypodermic needles or syringes under this section shall give the 
  9.36  purchaser the materials developed by the commissioner of health 
 10.1   under article 1, section 4. 
 10.2      Sec. 8.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 152.01, 
 10.3   subdivision 18, is amended to read: 
 10.4      Subd. 18.  [DRUG PARAPHERNALIA.] (a) Except as otherwise 
 10.5   provided in paragraph (b), "drug paraphernalia" means all 
 10.6   equipment, products, and materials of any kind, except those 
 10.7   items used in conjunction with permitted uses of controlled 
 10.8   substances under this chapter or the Uniform Controlled 
 10.9   Substances Act, which are knowingly or intentionally used 
 10.10  primarily in (1) manufacturing a controlled substance, (2) 
 10.11  injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into 
 10.12  the human body a controlled substance, (3) testing the strength, 
 10.13  effectiveness, or purity of a controlled substance, or (4) 
 10.14  enhancing the effect of a controlled substance.  
 10.15     (b) "Drug paraphernalia" does not include the possession, 
 10.16  manufacture, delivery, or sale of unused hypodermic needles or 
 10.17  syringes in quantities of ten or fewer in accordance with 
 10.18  section 151.40, subdivision 2. 
 10.19     Sec. 9.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 611A.19, 
 10.20  subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
 10.21     Subdivision 1.  [TESTING ON REQUEST OF VICTIM.] (a) Upon 
 10.22  the request or with the consent of the victim, the prosecutor 
 10.23  shall make a motion in camera and the sentencing court shall 
 10.24  issue an order requiring an adult convicted of or a juvenile 
 10.25  adjudicated delinquent for violating section 609.342 (criminal 
 10.26  sexual conduct in the first degree), 609.343 (criminal sexual 
 10.27  conduct in the second degree), 609.344 (criminal sexual conduct 
 10.28  in the third degree), 609.345 (criminal sexual conduct in the 
 10.29  fourth degree), or any other violent crime, as defined in 
 10.30  section 609.152, to submit to testing to determine the presence 
 10.31  of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody if:  
 10.32     (1) the crime involved sexual penetration, however slight, 
 10.33  as defined in section 609.341, subdivision 12, and evidence 
 10.34  exists that the victim was exposed to or had contact with the 
 10.35  offender's semen or blood during the commission of the crime in 
 10.36  a manner supported by contemporary epidemiological research as a 
 11.1   significant method of HIV transmission; or 
 11.2      (2) evidence exists that the broken skin or mucous membrane 
 11.3   of the victim was exposed to or had contact with the offender's 
 11.4   semen or blood during the commission of the crime in a manner 
 11.5   which has been demonstrated epidemiologically to transmit the 
 11.6   human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) supported by contemporary 
 11.7   epidemiological research as a significant method of HIV 
 11.8   transmission.  
 11.9      (b) When the court orders an offender to submit to testing 
 11.10  under paragraph (a), the court shall order that the test be 
 11.11  performed by an appropriate health professional who is trained 
 11.12  to provide the counseling described in section 144.763, and that 
 11.13  no reference to the test, the motion requesting the test, the 
 11.14  test order, or the test results may appear in the criminal 
 11.15  record or be maintained in any record of the court or court 
 11.16  services.  
 11.17     Sec. 10.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 611A.19, is 
 11.18  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
 11.19     Subd. 1a.  [TESTING ON REQUEST OF VICTIM; CHARGED 
 11.20  OFFENDERS.] Upon the request or with the consent of the victim, 
 11.21  if: 
 11.22     (1) an adult is charged with or a juvenile is petitioned 
 11.23  for violating a law listed in subdivision 1, paragraph (a); and 
 11.24     (2) the violation involved the conditions described in 
 11.25  subdivision 1, paragraph (a), clause (1) or (2); 
 11.26  then the prosecutor may make a motion and the court may issue an 
 11.27  order requiring the offender to be deemed a "patient" and 
 11.28  subject to testing and the victim deemed an "emergency medical 
 11.29  services personnel" and provided services in accordance with 
 11.30  sections 144.761 to 144.7691.  The prosecutor's motion shall be 
 11.31  made in camera and may be made at the offender's first 
 11.32  appearance or at any later time during the proceedings.  
 11.33     Sec. 11.  [APPROPRIATIONS.] 
 11.34     Subdivision 1.  [COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONS.] (a) $200,000 
 11.35  is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of 
 11.36  corrections for the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 1999.  The 
 12.1   commissioner shall use this appropriation, in cooperation with 
 12.2   the commissioners of health and public safety, to provide 
 12.3   education and training to peace officers, correctional 
 12.4   employees, and other criminal justice personnel on early 
 12.5   intervention and reduction of possible HIV seroconversion for 
 12.6   persons who experience a significant exposure, as defined in 
 12.7   Minnesota Statutes, section 144.761.  Of this amount, not less 
 12.8   than $125,000 shall be awarded as grants to professional and 
 12.9   nonprofit service providers to provide the education and 
 12.10  training services. 
 12.11     (b) $250,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
 12.12  commissioner of corrections for the fiscal biennium ending June 
 12.13  30, 1999.  The commissioner shall use this appropriation, in 
 12.14  cooperation with the commissioner of health and the attorney 
 12.15  general, to provide education and training to county attorneys, 
 12.16  public defenders, victim advocates, and shelters on early 
 12.17  intervention and reduction of possible HIV seroconversion for 
 12.18  victims of serious crimes that involve possible HIV exposure.  
 12.19  Of this amount, not less than $150,000 shall be awarded as 
 12.20  grants to professional and nonprofit service providers to 
 12.21  provide the education and training services. 
 12.22     Subd. 2.  [COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH.] $150,000 is 
 12.23  appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of health 
 12.24  for the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 1999, to be used to 
 12.25  evaluate the effects of sections 7 and 8.  The commissioner 
 12.26  shall submit an interim evaluation report to the legislature by 
 12.27  January 15, 2000, and a final report by January 15, 2002. 
 12.28     Subd. 3.  [COMMISSIONER OF HUMAN SERVICES.] $25,000 is 
 12.29  appointed from the general fund to the commissioner of human 
 12.30  services for the biennium ending June 30, 1999, to be used to 
 12.31  reimburse health care providers for counseling, testing, and 
 12.32  early intervention services provided to crime victims who 
 12.33  request the services. 
 12.34     Sec. 12.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
 12.35     Sections 9 and 10 are effective January 1, 1998.  Sections 
 12.36  7 and 8 are effective July 1, 1998.