Top Law and Government Legislation regarding 'Disadvantaged' in Minnesota

TICLE 1 - PUBLIC HEALTH Providing for a statewide health improvement program, providing for local community grants, outcomes, technical assistance, oversight and evaluation; requiring the commissioner to submit a biennial report to the legislature on the statewide health improvement program; requiring community health boards and tribal governments to use funds received to develop new programs, expand current programs to reduce the percentage of obese or overweight or who use tobacco; prohibiting funds from being used to supplant current state or local funding to community health boards or tribal governments ARTICLE 2 - HEALTH CARE HOMES Defining certain terms; requiring the commissioners of health and human services to develop and implement standards of certification for health care homes for state health care programs by a certain date; specifying requirements of clinicians certified as health [...]

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TICLE 1 - PUBLIC HEALTH Providing for a statewide health improvement program, specifying goals, providing for local community grants, outcomes, technical assistance, oversight and evaluation; requiring the commissioner to submit a biennial report to the legislature on the statewide health improvement program; requiring community health boards and tribal governments to use funds received to develop new programs, expand current programs to reduce the percentage of obese or overweight or who use tobacco ARTICLE 2 - HEALTH CARE HOMES Requiring the commissioners of health and human services to develop and implement standards of certification for health care homes for state health care programs by a certain date; specifying requirements of clinicians certified as health care homes; providing for alternative models; requiring the commissioners to establish a health care collaborative by a certain [...]

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URTH ENGROSSMENT MFIP provisions modified, child placement and welfare provisions changed, Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children established, child in voluntary foster care for treatment established, and data practices and technical changes made. ARTICLE 1 -- MFIP WORK PARTICIPATION Section 1: Permanent bar to set aside a disqualification language modified. Section 2: Specific powers language modified. Section 3: Eligibility language modified. Section 4: Eligibility for services language added. Section 5: Performance base funds language modified. ARTICLE 2-- CHILD CARE Section 1: Allocation formula language is modified. Section 2: Licensed and legal nonlicensed family child care providers; assistance language is modified. Section 3: Relationship to current law language is modified. Section 4: Child [...]

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TICLE 1 - HEALTH CARE Authorizing licensed physicians and licensed psychologists to make a diagnosis and determination of attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for the purpose of identifying a child with a disability and eligible for and in need of special education instruction and services; requiring the commissioner of health to modify regulations for home care service providers to include certain home care aide tasks; requiring hospitals, clinics and medical facilities to have in place by a certain date a policy for informing a woman of available options for fetal disposition upon miscarriage; permitting graduates of nonaccredited dental programs completing a clinical licensure examination and meeting certain applicant requirements to be granted a limited general dentist license by the board of dentistry; requiring the volunteer health care provider program administrative [...]

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TICLE 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 supports allowance to certain persons eligible [...]

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