1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; appropriating money for tribal and county 
1.3 	reimbursement of costs incurred due to administrative error.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; INSTITUTIONS FOR MENTAL DISEASE 
1.6 	PAYMENTS.
 1.7 	$8,812,000 is appropriated in fiscal year 2021 from the general fund to the commissioner 
1.8 	of human services for reimbursing counties for the commissioner's estimated value of the 
1.9 	statewide county share of costs for which federal funds were claimed, but that were not 
1.10 	eligible for federal funding. The claims were for substance use disorder services provided 
1.11 	in institutions for mental disease, for claims paid between January 1, 2014, and June 30, 
1.12 	2019. The commissioner of human services shall allocate this appropriation between counties 
1.13 	in proportion to each county's estimated county share versus the estimated statewide county 
1.14 	share. Prior to payment of the allocated amount to a county, the county must pay in full any 
1.15 	unpaid consolidated chemical dependency treatment fund invoiced county share. This is a 
1.16 	onetime appropriation.

1.17 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION; CHILDREN'S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES FEDERAL 
1.18 	FOSTER CARE REIMBURSEMENT.
 1.19 	$....... is appropriated in fiscal year 2021 from the general fund to the commissioner of 
1.20 	human services for grants to counties, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, and the White Earth 
1.21 	Band of Chippewa for reimbursing the value of the commissioner's estimate of the county 
1.22 	and tribal share of federal Title IV-E foster care reimbursement claims that have not been 
2.1 	paid due to children's residential facility staff noncompliance with federal enhanced 
2.2 	background study requirements. The commissioner of human services shall allocate grants 
2.3 	based on the actual amount of county and tribe costs for unpaid federal foster care 
2.4 	reimbursement claims between July 1, 2019, and March 1, 2020. This is a onetime 
2.5 	appropriation.

2.6 	Sec. 3. APPROPRIATION; CASH ASSISTANCE OVERPAYMENT RECOVERY.
 2.7 	$....... is appropriated in fiscal year 2021 from the general fund to the commissioner of 
2.8 	human services for grants to counties and tribes for reimbursing counties and tribes for costs 
2.9 	incurred related to repaying cash assistance program participants from whom overpayments 
2.10 	were collected between August 1, 2016, and November 1, 2019. The commissioner of 
2.11 	human services shall allocate grants based on the actual amount of county and tribe costs 
2.12 	incurred related to implementing and assisting with the repayment process. This is a onetime 
2.13 	appropriation.