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Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill TextRelating 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 [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to human services; requiring the commissioner of human services to
expand clinical pain and palliative care services coverage for children under
the medical assistance (MA) program; defining certain terms; appropriating money
to the commissioner of human services
(me)
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Secretary of State Ch. 162 03/27/08 Bill Text
HF 3368
SECOND ENGROSSMENT
Filing deadlines set for certain reports, customer payment arrangements
regulated during cold weather periods, and utility payment agreements regulated.
Section 1: Monthly reports language added.
Section 2: Cold weather rule language added.
Section 3: Customers above 50 percent of state median income language added.
Section 4: Payment agreements language added.
SNA 3/26/08
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to human services; modifying the medical assistance (MA) drug formulary
committee membership and requiring vacancy notice and posting by the
commissioner of human services on the web site, limiting term of service;
requiring meeting notices and drugs to be considered to be posted on the web
site prior to a meeting; modifying mental illness prescription prior
authorization requirements
(rt)
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill TextRelating to human servcies; modifying certain family eligibility participant requirements for child care assistance under the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) program; modifying the definition of participant; modifying certain property limitations requirements for vehicles; specifying ineligibility of certain legal noncitizens for MFIP programs; modifying county agency recertification requirements; modifying certain employment services assessments requirements; modifying postsecondary education or training approval requirements; eliminating family stabilization services from allowable expenditures of the MFIP consolidated fund; modifying diversionary work program (DWP) eligibility requirements; repealing a prior repealer relating to MFIP grant treatment of supplemental security income; repealing certain provisions relating to family stabilization services, the work participation bonus, and the Workforce U [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/01/2007 - Received from Senate Bill Text
Continuing care and long-term care provisions modified, electronic meetings
authorized, service standards altered, Medicaid waivers for elderly services
modified, and personal care assistant services modified.
Also tagged in: Administration Department, Chemical Dependency, Children and Minors, Counties, Counties-Human Services, Drugs and Medicine, Family, Health and Health Department, Health-Mental Health, Hospitals and Health Facilities, Human Services and Human Services Department, Insurance-Health, Native Americans, Nursing Homes and Care Facilities, Senior Citizens
Latest Action: 04/30/2007 - Received from Senate Bill Text
Human services technical changes provided.
Also tagged in: Appropriations, Appropriations-Omnibus Bills, Boards, Cities and Towns-Specific, Corrections and Corrections Department, Counties-Specific, Economic Development, Energy, Environment, Health and Health Department, Housing and Housing Finance Agency, Human Services and Human Services Department, Natural Resources Department, Nursing Homes and Care Facilities, Public Safety Department, State Agencies and Departments, State Government-Finance, Transportation and Transportation Department, University of Minnesota, Veterans and Veterans Affairs Department, Water, Water Resources, and Waterways
Latest Action: 04/02/2007 - Received from Senate Bill Text1E Relating to the financing of state government; making onetime appropriations ARTICLE 1 - SUMMARY Providing a summary of appropriations ARTICLE 2 - HUMAN SERVICES Appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for children and economic assistance grants, for grants to counties for child support enforcement programs, for children and community services grants, for grants to counties and tribes affected by reductions in targeted case management federal Medicaid revenue, for other children and economic assistance grants, for children and economic assistance management, administration and operations, for continuing care grants to reimburse the costs of nursing facility sprinkler systems and for state operated services for a grant to Advocating Change Together (ACT) for the remembering with dignity project, to the commissioner of health for the window replacement program and [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Adoption, Appropriations, Appropriations-Omnibus Bills, Chemical Dependency, Children and Minors, Children-Child Care and Facilities, Compensation and Salaries, Counties, Counties-Specific, Disabilities and Access, Family, Health and Health Department, Health-Mental Health, Hospitals and Health Facilities, Human Services and Human Services Department, Insurance-Health, Mortgages and Deeds, Native Americans, Nursing Homes and Care Facilities, State Government-Finance
Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Governor's action Veto Ch. 58 05/08/07 Bill Text
Omnibus health and human services finance bill.
Also tagged in: Administration Department, Appropriations, Appropriations-Omnibus Bills, Boards, Buildings and Building Codes, Commerce Department, Councils, Courts-Specific, Economic Development, Employment and Economic Development Department, Governmental Operations-State, Historic Sites and Historical Societies, Housing and Housing Finance Agency, Labor, Employment, and Labor and Industry Department, Military and Military Affairs Department, Native Americans, Occupations and Professions, Popular Names, State Government-Finance, Workers Compensation
Latest Action: 05/08/2007 - Governor's action Veto Ch. 55 05/07/07 Bill Text3E Relating to the organization, operation and financing of state government ARTICLE 1 - JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING AND MINNESOTA HERITAGE APPROPRIATIONS SUMMARY Appropriating money for jobs and economic development purposes; appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for business and community development, for grants for rural policy and development center at St. Peter, for women's business development programs, university enterprise laboratories (UEL) bioscience development activities, the redevelopment grant program, for DEED small businesses department services and a technology and commercialization unit, for the small community wastewater treatment program, small business growth program, bioscience business development programs, the urban challenge grant program, the bioscience business marketing program, and the nanotechnology development fund program [...] show full description
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Latest Legislation - View All
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Repealing the requirement for school districts to provide information to
students on the availability of health care coverage through Minnesota health
care programs outreach
(je)
Latest Action: 03/19/2008 - Withdrawn and re-referred to Finance Bill Text
Increasing the maximum reimbursement rates for special transportation
services under medical assistance (MA)
(je)
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Prohibiting the commissioner of human services from using brokers or
coordinators for dispatching nonemergency or emergency medical transportation
services and disbursements of volunteer and recipient mileage and parking
reimbursements under medical assistance (MA)
(je)
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Comm rpt: To pass as amend & re-ref to State and Local Government Operations and Oversight Bill Text
1E Requiring the commissioner of human services to establish a child care
advisory task force for reviewing child care assistance laws, rules and policies
and to remove barriers facing families applying for and receiving child care
assistance, specifying membership and duties; requiring recommendations to the
legislature by a certain date; sunset provision
(ra)
Latest Action: 03/11/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to the housing finance agency (HFA); requiring providers or
organizations receiving homeless program state funding to impose certain
consistent homeless programs standards on clients and requiring consistency in
program guidelines; requiring the interagency task force on homelessness in
consultation with the Minnesota coalition for the homeless, homeless advocates,
certain homeless or formerly homeless people, representatives of public or
private providers of emergency shelter, transitional, supportive and permanent
affordable housing, representatives of homeless youth serving agencies and youth
outreach programs and interested members of the public to establish certain
standards; requiring agency and departments to implement the standards by a
certain date
(je)
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Comm rpt: To pass and re-referred to Finance Bill Text
Appropriating money to the commissioner of employment and economic development
(DEED) for a grant to Workforce Development, Inc. for a pilot project to provide
demand driven employment and training services to welfare recipients and other
economically disadvantaged populations in Mower, Freeborn, Dodge and Steele
counties
(je)
Latest Action: 03/12/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to human services; providing a medical assistance (MA) rate increase
for nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities for persons with mental
retardation or related conditions (ICF/MR) and certain home and community based
waivered services providers; modifying the income tax rate schedule; providing
for inflation adjustment of the brackets; creating the long term care payment
rate account; appropriating money to commissioner of human services from the
long term care payment rate account to fund long term care provider rate
increases
(je)
Latest Action: 03/15/2007 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Relating to property taxes; requiring certain low income rental housing to
participate in the crime free multihousing program offered through the city
police or county sheriff in order to receive a reduced property tax class 4d
rate; specifying certain certification, compliance and notification requirements
(je)
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Providing early childhood family education program (ECFE) incentives to programs
successfully reaching out to at risk (high risk) children and demonstrating
collaboration with other ECFE programs and organizations serving at risk
children, specifying a percentage, appropriating money to the commissioner of
education for collaboration incentives
(rt)
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Introduction and first reading Bill Text
Requiring delivered heating fuel vendors to offer certain residential heating
fuel customers monthly payment agreements (cold weather protection) during
certain months, specifying requirements
(rt)
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