1998 Minnesota Statutes

     145A.13 Community health services subsidy. 

    Subdivision 1.    Subsidy formula.  The commissioner of 
 health shall distribute a subsidy for the operations of 
 community health boards organized and operating under sections 
 145A.09 to 145A.13. 

    (a) Each city or county eligible for a subsidy under 
 section 145A.09, subdivision 2, shall receive no less for any 
 calendar year than the total community health services subsidy 
 that was allocated for that city or county by the commissioner 
 of health under this section for calendar year 1985. 

    (b) Additional money appropriated for the operations of 
 community health boards organized and operating under sections 
 145A.09 to 145A.13 shall be distributed in proportion to 
 population. 

    Subd. 2.    Local match.  Each community health board 
 that receives a subsidy shall provide local matching money equal 
 to that subsidy during the year for which the subsidy is made, 
 subject to the following provisions: 

    (a) the local matching funds may include local tax levies, 
 gifts, fees for services, and revenues from contracts; 

    (b) when the amount of local matching funds for a community 
 health board is less than the amount specified, the subsidy 
 provided for that community health board under this section 
 shall be reduced proportionally; 

    (c) when a community health board fails to expend the full 
 amount of the subsidy to which it would be entitled in any one 
 year under the provisions of sections 145A.09 to 145A.13, the 
 state commissioner of health may retain the surplus, subject to 
 disbursement to the community health board in the following 
 calendar year if the community health board can demonstrate a 
 need for and ability to expend the surplus for the purposes 
 provided in section 145A.10; and 

    (d) a city organized under the provisions of sections 
 145A.09 to 145A.13 that levies a tax for provision of community 
 health services shall be exempted from any county levy for the 
 same services to the extent of the levy imposed by the city. 

    Subd. 3.    Payment.  When a community health board 
 meets the requirements prescribed in section 145A.09, 
 subdivision 2, the state commissioner of health shall pay the 
 amount of subsidy to the community health board or its designee 
 according to applicable rules from the money appropriated for 
 the purpose and according to the following: 

    (a) the commissioner of health shall make payments for 
 community health services to each community health board or its 
 designee in 12 installments a year; 

    (b) the commissioner shall ensure that the pertinent 
 payment of the allotment for each month is made on the first 
 working day after the end of each month of the calendar year, 
 except for the last month of the calendar year; 

    (c) the commissioner shall ensure that each community 
 health board or its designee receives its payment of the 
 allotment for that month no later than the last working day of 
 that month.  The payment described in this subdivision for 
 services rendered during June, 1985, shall be made on the first 
 working day of July, 1985; and 

    (d) the commissioner shall make payment to a human services 
 board organized and operating under section 145A.09, subdivision 
 5, or to its designee, as prescribed in section 402.02, 
 subdivision 4. 

    HIST: 1976 c 9 s 11; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1983 c 312 art 1 s 19; 
 1985 c 248 s 70; 1Sp1985 c 9 art 2 s 20; 1987 c 309 s 24,25; 
 1989 c 209 art 2 s 19