Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF2087

1E Relating to health and human services

ARTICLE 1 - HEALTH
DEPARTMENT

Modifying the electronic drug prior authorization request
accessibility deadline; providing an exemption for using a licensed well
contractor; requiring a notice to be provided with certain mammogram results;
providing an exemption for dental cone beam computerized tomography from
diagnostic imaging requirements; requiring hospitals to participate in the
Minnesota stroke registry program; requiring the commissioner of health to
assess and report on the quality of care for ST elevation myocardial infarction
response and treatment; allowing home care correction order e-mail delivery;
modifying certain investigation and enforcement provisions for home care
providers; modifying licensing and compliance monitoring requirements; requiring
dementia care training for all housing with services establishments; specifying
certain requirements for managers of housing with services establishments;
requiring emergency planning for housing with services establishments; requiring
the commissioner of human services to implement certain evaluation and reporting
requirements

ARTICLE 2 - PUBLIC HEALTH

Making changes to the local public
health system; modifying the organization, the powers and duties of the board of
health; modifying the adoption of local ordinances; modifying certain powers and
duties of the commissioner of health in relation to local public health systems
and the delegation of certain powers and duties; clarifying certain assessment
of costs and tax levy authority; modifying provisions relating to local public
health grants; repealing certain obsolete provisions

ARTICLE 3 - HEALTH
CARE

Modifying department of human services medical assistance (MA) provider
enrollment for certain supplies; prohibiting prior authorization requirements
for certain MA covered dental services; establishing a health care homes
advisory committee; repealing certain reports and obsolete rules; requiring the
commissioner to seek federal authority to amend the state Medicaid
plan

ARTICLE 4 - CONTINUING CARE

Changing the MA complex private duty
nursing definition to be home care nursing; making changes to requirements for
personal care assistants and designation of a common entry point; changing the
bond requirement for certain providers; adding adult day services to the MA
essential community supports program; modifying provisions relating to
continuing care; making changes to requirements for personal care assistants
modifying a provider rate increase, making certain technical changes

ARTICLE
5 - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Modifying child age classifications; modifying
family child care training requirements; clarifying requirements for safe sleep
spaces for infants in licensed child care; preventing children in foster care
from being exposed to secondhand smoke; modifying the reporting of maltreatment
of minors provisions; requiring compliance with department of human services
guidelines for screening child maltreatment reports; requiring county retention
of certain information to identify repeated reports of maltreatment of the same
child

ARTICLE 6 - HEALTH-RELATED BOARDS

Clarifying regulation of
complementary and alternative health care practices by licensed or registered
health care practitioners; modifying the scope and practice for chiropractors;
modifying provisions relating to licensure of occupational therapists; modifying
and clarifying certain provisions of the athletic trainers practice act;
modifying designation of athletic training regulations; modifying certain
provisions of the athletic trainers advisory council; modifying and clarifying
certain athletic training activities; modifying registration requirements;
clarifying continuing education approval requirements, certain discipline
reporting requirements, and applicability; modifying the definition of certified
doula; requiring licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) supervisors to
meet administrative rule requirements; modifying the requirements of conversion
from licensed professional counselor to LPCC; modifying the pharmacy practice
protocol for administering vaccines; modifying provisions relating to licensure
of podiatrists; requiring an employer of a person licensed or regulated by a
health licensing board to report health care professionals diverting narcotics
or controlled substances and providing exceptions; repealing certain inclusions
in chiropractic practice, certain definitions relating to chiropractic practice
and rehabilitative therapy application, physical agent modalities provisions,
and registration and disciplinary process provisions relating to athletic
trainers

ARTICLE 7 - CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

Requiring commissioner of
human services approval of adult foster care homes serving people with mental
illness training curriculum and requiring a testing component and professional
training; specifying circumstances under which a person can receive neuroleptic
medication without judicial review; making culturally specific substance use
disorder programs eligible for higher chemical dependency treatment payment
rates for vendor eligibility purposes; defining culturally specific program;
authorizing the commissioner of human services to create a pilot program to
respond to issues related to commitment

ARTICLE 8 -
MISCELLANEOUS

Modifying certain provisions relating to the use or sale of
tobacco products to include reference to e-cigarettes (electronic cigarettes)
containing nicotine; modifying the definition of smoking, tobacco products
prohibitions in public schools, municipal license of tobacco, tobacco related
devices and similar products, ban on self service sale of packs and exceptions,
effect on local ordinance, and sale of tobacco and tobacco delivery products to
children; allowing opticians, optometrists, physicians, and eyeglass retailers
to make new prescription eyeglasses using a prescription from old lenses under
certain circumstances; regulating pharmacy benefit managers maximum allowable
cost pricing; providing that the American Indian advisory, alcohol and other
drug abuse, and American Indian child welfare advisory councils and the state
traumatic brain injury program advisory committee do not expire; limiting
tanning equipment to persons 18 years or older; modifying local social services
agency member selection to be by the county board of commissioners; providing
for the registration of automatic external defibrillators (AED); repealing a
commissioner of human services review and evaluation on ongoing studies
requirement, certain tanning facilities requirements, and the autism spectrum
disorder task force
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