Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                        CHAPTER 120-S.F.No. 858 
           An act relating to health; authorizing community 
          health boards to establish community-based health 
          promotion teams; prescribing duties; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 145A.10, by adding a 
          subdivision. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 145A.14, is 
amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
    Subd. 4.  [HEALTH PROMOTION TEAM.] (a) The community 
health board may establish a community-based health promotion 
team made up of representatives of business and industry, public 
health, labor, voluntary agencies, hospitals, medical clinics, 
churches, media, schools, civic groups, local government and 
elected officials, nursing homes, consumers, and others as 
appropriate. 
    (b) A community-based health promotion team shall: 
    (1) collect and summarize community health data relating to 
behavioral risk factors such as smoking, consumption of 
alcoholic beverages, and poor nutrition habits; 
    (2) identify, rank, and prioritize lifestyle-based health 
problems; 
    (3) develop strategies to address health promotion 
concerns; 
    (4) implement a five-year health promotion plan that 
includes an annual evaluation component and establish a 
mechanism for program maintenance following completion of the 
plan; 
    (5) design and implement a "healthy messages" media plan; 
and 
    (6) seek grants and other funding from foundations, 
educational institutions, and other nonprofit entities. 
    (c) Within the limit of available appropriations, the 
commissioner may grant money to a community health board to 
enable the board to establish a community-based health promotion 
team.  The commissioner shall monitor the activities of teams 
under this section and report to the legislature by January 1, 
1991, on the teams' operation and progress. 
    Presented to the governor May 12, 1989 
    Signed by the governor May 15, 1989, 9:56 a.m.