Committees Legislation - Minnesota

Relating to state government ARTICLE 1 - CONTINUING CARE Modifying certain targeted case management provisions; authorizing the commissioner of human services to award through a competitive process contracts for grants to public and private agencies to support and assist individuals eligible for publicly funded home and community-based services to access housing; providing for nursing facility rate increases beginning October 1, 2009; providing for calculation of quality add-on for the rate year beginning October 1, 2009; requiring demonstration providers providing nursing home and community-based services to provide relocation service coordination to enrolled persons age 65 and over; expanding general assistance (GA) shelter needy eligibility to self-directed supports option participants and home and community-based waiver recipients living independently, extending the state-funded transitional [...]

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Relating to health care ARTICLE 1 - PUBLIC HEALTH Establishing the public health improvement fund; requiring hospitals by a certain date to contribute a certain percent of net patient revenue to the public health improvement fund; providing for a statewide health improvement program, specifying goals, providing for local community grants, outcomes and a media campaign; requiring the commissioner of health to establish a BMI monitoring program for children and youth; appropriating money to the commissioner of health ARTICLE 2 - HEALTH CARE HOMES Requiring medical assistance (MA) enrollees to select primary care clinics after a certain date; requiring the commissioner of human services to encourage initial health assessments; requiring the commissioner to provide patient education and outreach to MA enrollees; requiring the commissioner to establish health care homes for state health [...]

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Relating to data practices ARTICLE 1 - TEMPORARY CLASSIFICATIONS Modifying applications for temporary classification of government data to include data on individuals; requiring data application website publication and permitting application withdrawal prior to data disposition; allowing responsible authorities to request commissioner of administration approval for new or different data use or dissemination for data temporarily classified; repealing temporary classification contents of application for private or confidential data ARTICLE 2 - MISCELLANEOUS Classifying data on election candidates and applicants to boards, task forces, commissions, committees, advisory groups and other public bodies as private; adding addresses as public data; classifying building plans, blueprints and drawings of state owned facilities and state leased nonstate owned facilities as nonpublic data [...]

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HF 1063 SECOND ENGROSSMENT Omnibus higher education finance bill establishing and amending higher education programs, and appropriating money. ARTICLE 1: HIGHER EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS Section 1: Summary of appropriations language provided. Section 2: Higher education appropriations language provided. Section 3: Minnesota office of higher education language provided. Section 4: Board of trustees of the Minnesota state colleges and universities language provided. Section 5: Board of regents of the University of Minnesota language provided. Section 6: Mayo clinic language provided. Section 7: Department of veterans affairs language provided. Section 8: Center for rural policy and development language provided. Section 9: Financial aid program studies language provided. Section 10: Postsecondary education participation [...]

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1E Relating to motor fuels; modifying the definition of biodiesel fuel and increasing the minimum content of biodiesel fuel in diesel fuel, specifying biodiesel content goals; establishing a panel composed of the commissioners of agriculture, commerce and pollution control agency (PCA) and specifying duties, clarifying minimum content exceptions; requiring the commissioner of agriculture to issue a report annually by a certain date to the legislature regarding the implementation of biodiesel minimum content requirements; requiring the commissioners of finance, commerce and the PCA to develop and submit to the legislature a proposal for eliminating redundant fuel inspections and dedicating petroleum inspection fee revenue to the weights and measures division of the department of commerce; requiring the commissioners of agriculture and commerce to consider and provide recommendations to maximize the performance of biodiesel

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1E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government, appropriating money for general legislative and administrative expenses ARTICLE 1 - STATE GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS Appropriating money to the legislature for general operations and for health care access, to the constitutional officers, to the campaign finance and public disclosure board, to the investment board, to the office of enterprise technology, to the office of administrative hearings, to the commissioner of administration for state facilities, state and community and administrative management services, for matching grants for public television, to the capitol area architectural and planning (CAAP) board, to the commissioner of finance for state financial management and information and management services, to the commissioner of employee relations (DOER), to the commissioner of revenue for tax system and accounts receivable [...]

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