1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health care; awarding a grant to train community health care workers 
1.3 	in advanced care directives; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE WORKERS' ADVANCED CARE 
1.6 	DIRECTIVE TRAINING GRANT.
 1.7 	(a) The commissioner of health shall award a grant to a consortium of stakeholders 
1.8 	to create an initiative to train community health care workers as advanced care facilitators 
1.9 	in order to facilitate respectful, culturally competent conversations on advanced care 
1.10 	directives in communities of color.
1.11 	(b) The grant shall be awarded to a consortium that includes Healthforce Minnesota 
1.12 	at Winona State University, a statewide advanced care planning resource organization with 
1.13 	expertise in coordinating community-based strategies, and the Minnesota Community 
1.14 	Health Care Workers Alliance.
1.15 	(c) The grant shall be used to:
1.16 	(1) train up to 30 community health care workers at a one-day facilitator training 
1.17 	conducted by the Twin Cities Medical Society. Training must focus on critical barriers 
1.18 	related to culture, language, and other factors and build essential skills to be used in the 
1.19 	area of advanced care planning by community health care workers as part of patient 
1.20 	education services;
1.21 	(2) conduct a survey of the community health care workers who complete the 
1.22 	training to identify the effectiveness of the training; and
2.1 	(3) prepare a report on the effectiveness of the training, including lessons learned 
2.2 	and recommendations on how to improve the current curriculum for community health 
2.3 	care workers to be shared with interested stakeholders.

2.4 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 2.5 	$14,000 in fiscal year 2017 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
2.6 	commissioner of health for the community health care workers' advanced care directive 
2.7 	training grant program. This is a onetime appropriation.