1997 Minnesota Statutes

     256B.0916 Expansion of home and community-based services.

    (a) The commissioner shall expand availability of home and 
 community-based services for persons with mental retardation and 
 related conditions to the extent allowed by federal law and 
 regulation and shall assist counties in transferring persons 
 from semi-independent living services to home and 
 community-based services.  The commissioner may transfer funds 
 from the state semi-independent living services account 
 available under section 252.275, subdivision 8, and state 
 community social services aids available under section 256E.15 
 to the medical assistance account to pay for the nonfederal 
 share of nonresidential and residential home and community-based 
 services authorized under section 256B.092 for persons 
 transferring from semi-independent living services. 

    (b) Upon federal approval, county boards are not 
 responsible for funding semi-independent living services as a 
 social service for those persons who have transferred to the 
 home and community-based waiver program as a result of the 
 expansion under this subdivision.  The county responsibility for 
 those persons transferred shall be assumed under section 
 256B.092.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 252.275, 
 the commissioner shall continue to allocate funds under that 
 section for semi-independent living services and county boards 
 shall continue to fund services under sections 256E.06 and 
 256E.14 for those persons who cannot access home and 
 community-based services under section 256B.092. 

    (c) Eighty percent of the state funds made available to the 
 commissioner under section 252.275 as a result of persons 
 transferring from the semi-independent living services program 
 to the home and community-based services program shall be used 
 to fund additional persons in the semi-independent living 
 services program. 

    HIST: 1Sp1993 c 1 art 4 s 8