1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; establishing a method to determine reimbursement of 
1.3 	nursing facility Public Employees Retirement Association costs; appropriating 
1.4 	money;amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 256B.434, by adding a 
1.5 	subdivision.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 256B.434, is amended by adding a 
1.8 	subdivision to read:
1.9 		Subd. 19.Payment of Public Employees Retirement Association costs. Nursing 
1.10 	facilities that participate in the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) shall 
1.11 	have the component of their payment rate associated with the costs of PERA determined 
1.12 	for each rate year. Effective for rate years beginning on and after October 1, 2007, the 
1.13 	commissioner shall determine the portion of the payment rate in effect on September 30 
1.14 	each year and shall subtract that amount from the payment rate to be effective on the 
1.15 	following October 1. The portion that shall be deemed to be included in the September 30, 
1.16 	2007, rate that is associated with PERA costs shall be the allowed costs in the facility's 
1.17 	base for determining rates under this section, divided by the resident days reported for that 
1.18 	year. The commissioner shall add to the payment rate to be effective on October 1 each 
1.19 	year an amount equal to the reported costs associated with PERA, for the year ended on 
1.20 	the most recent September 30 for which data is available, divided by total resident days 
1.21 	for that year, as reported by the facility and audited under section 256B.441.

1.22 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 1.23 	$....... is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of human services 
1.24 	for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007, for the purposes of section 1.