HF 3578

1st Engrossment - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to employment; establishing a pilot project to encourage the licensure
of foreign-trained health care professionals in Minnesota; appropriating money
for a pilot program to encourage the licensure of foreign-trained health care
professionals.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1. new text begin PILOT PROJECT; LICENSURE OF FOREIGN-TRAINED HEALTH
CARE PROFESSIONALS.
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new text begin The commissioner of employment and economic development must conduct a
pilot project to encourage the licensure in Minnesota of foreign-trained health care
professionals, including physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, veterinarians, and other
allied health care professionals. The commissioner must work with local workforce boards
to award grants to foreign-trained health care professionals that are sufficient to cover the
actual costs of taking a course intended to prepare health care professionals for required
licensing examinations and the fee for taking required licensing examinations. When
awarding grants, the commissioner must consider whether the recipient??a??a??s training involves
a medical specialty that is in demand in one or more Minnesota communities. The
commissioner also must establish additional criteria for the award of grants. The program
will begin on July 1, 2006, and end on June 30, 2007. The commissioner must submit
a report evaluating the effectiveness of the pilot program to the legislative committees
with jurisdiction over employment by October 1, 2007.
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Sec. 2. new text begin APPROPRIATION.
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new text begin $....... is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of employment and
economic development for a pilot project to encourage the licensure of foreign-trained
health care professionals.
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