1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to education; providing for interagency 
  1.3             services for children with disabilities; providing for 
  1.4             a report on certain rules of the state board of 
  1.5             education and the commissioner of human services; 
  1.6             establishing a training program; appropriating money; 
  1.7             amending Minnesota Statutes 1994, sections 120.17, by 
  1.8             adding a subdivision; 121.8355, subdivision 2; and 
  1.9             124.323, subdivision 2. 
  1.10  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.11     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 120.17, is 
  1.12  amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  1.13     Subd. 3d.  [INTERAGENCY SERVICES.] If at the time of 
  1.14  initial referral for an educational assessment, or a 
  1.15  reassessment, the school district determines that a child with 
  1.16  disabilities who is age 5 through 22 may be eligible for 
  1.17  interagency services, the district shall request that the county 
  1.18  of residence provide a representative to the first individual 
  1.19  education plan team meeting following the assessment or 
  1.20  reassessment.  The district may request to have a county 
  1.21  representative attend other individual education plan team 
  1.22  meetings when it is necessary to facilitate coordination between 
  1.23  district and county provided services.  Upon request from a 
  1.24  school district, the resident county shall provide a 
  1.25  representative to assist the individual education plan team in 
  1.26  determining the child's eligibility for existing health, mental 
  1.27  health, or other support services administered or provided by 
  2.1   the county.  The individual education plan team and the county 
  2.2   representative shall develop a multiagency plan of care for an 
  2.3   eligible child and the child's family to coordinate services 
  2.4   required under the child's individual education plan with county 
  2.5   services.  The multiagency plan of care shall include 
  2.6   appropriate family information with the consent of the family, a 
  2.7   description of how services will be coordinated between the 
  2.8   district and county, a description of case management 
  2.9   responsibilities and services, and a description of activities 
  2.10  for obtaining third-party payment for eligible services, 
  2.11  including medical assistance payments. 
  2.12     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 121.8355, 
  2.13  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  2.14     Subd. 2.  [DUTIES.] (a) Each collaborative shall: 
  2.15     (1) establish, with assistance from families and service 
  2.16  providers, clear goals for addressing the health, developmental, 
  2.17  educational, and family-related needs of children and youth and 
  2.18  use outcome-based indicators to measure progress toward 
  2.19  achieving those goals; 
  2.20     (2) establish a comprehensive planning process that 
  2.21  involves all sectors of the community, identifies local needs, 
  2.22  and surveys existing local programs; 
  2.23     (3) integrate service funding sources so that children and 
  2.24  their families obtain services from providers best able to 
  2.25  anticipate and meet their needs; 
  2.26     (4) coordinate families' services to avoid duplicative and 
  2.27  overlapping assessment and intake procedures; 
  2.28     (5) focus primarily on family-centered services; 
  2.29     (6) encourage parents and volunteers to actively 
  2.30  participate by using flexible scheduling and actively recruiting 
  2.31  volunteers; 
  2.32     (7) provide services in locations that are readily 
  2.33  accessible to children and families; 
  2.34     (8) use new or reallocated funds to improve or enhance 
  2.35  services provided to children and their families; 
  2.36     (9) identify federal, state, and local institutional 
  3.1   barriers to coordinating services and suggest ways to remove 
  3.2   these barriers; and 
  3.3      (10) design and implement an integrated local service 
  3.4   delivery system for children and their families that coordinates 
  3.5   services across agencies and is client centered.  The delivery 
  3.6   system shall provide a continuum of services for children birth 
  3.7   to age 18, or birth through age 22 for individuals with 
  3.8   disabilities.  The collaborative shall describe the community 
  3.9   plan for serving pregnant women and children from birth to age 
  3.10  six. 
  3.11     (b) The outcome-based indicators developed in paragraph 
  3.12  (a), clause (1), may include the number of low birth weight 
  3.13  babies, the infant mortality rate, the number of children who 
  3.14  are adequately immunized and healthy, require out-of-home 
  3.15  placement or long-term special education services, and the 
  3.16  number of minor parents. 
  3.17     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 124.323, 
  3.18  subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  3.19     Subd. 2.  [EXCESS COST AID.] (a) For fiscal years 1995 and 
  3.20  ~~later fiscal years~~ 1996, a district's special education excess 
  3.21  cost aid equals the product of: 
  3.22     (1) 70 percent of the difference between (i) the district's 
  3.23  unreimbursed special education cost per actual pupil unit and 
  3.24  (ii) six percent of the district's general revenue per actual 
  3.25  pupil unit, times 
  3.26     (2) the district's actual pupil units for that year. 
  3.27     (b) For fiscal year 1997 and later fiscal years, a 
  3.28  district's special education excess cost aid equals the product 
  3.29  of: 
  3.30     (1) 100 percent of the difference between: 
  3.31     (i) the district's unreimbursed special education cost per 
  3.32  actual pupil unit; and 
  3.33     (ii) six percent of the district's general revenue per 
  3.34  actual pupil unit, times 
  3.35     (2) the district's actual pupil units for that year. 
  3.36     Sec. 4.  [COMMISSIONERS' DUTIES.] 
  4.1      Subdivision 1.  [ALIGNMENT OF RULES.] The commissioners of 
  4.2   education and human services shall review current state rules 
  4.3   and statutes concerning the disability definitions, eligibility 
  4.4   criteria, assessment and diagnostic practices, licensing of 
  4.5   service providers, aversive and deprivation procedures, and case 
  4.6   management procedures for programs and services for children 
  4.7   with disabilities provided by the education and human services 
  4.8   systems.  The commissioners shall report to the education and 
  4.9   health and human services committees of the legislature by 
  4.10  February 15, 1996, on recommendations for modifying state rules 
  4.11  and statutes and applying for necessary federal waivers to 
  4.12  improve service delivery and promote integration and 
  4.13  collaboration between the education and human services systems.  
  4.14  The commissioners shall include state and local program 
  4.15  administrators and service providers in the process for 
  4.16  reviewing the state statutes and rules. 
  4.17     Subd. 2.  [LOCAL TRAINING PROGRAMS.] The commissioners of 
  4.18  education and human services shall jointly develop and implement 
  4.19  a training program for local staff in school districts and 
  4.20  county human services and social services agencies who work with 
  4.21  children with disabilities and their families.  Implementation 
  4.22  of the training program shall begin no later than January 15, 
  4.23  1996.  The training shall familiarize staff with the disability 
  4.24  definitions, eligibility criteria, assessment and diagnostic 
  4.25  practices, available services, and case management procedures of 
  4.26  each of the service providing systems.  The goal of the training 
  4.27  is to enable local staff to determine if children with 
  4.28  disabilities may be eligible for interagency services, involve 
  4.29  staff from appropriate agencies in collaboratively developing a 
  4.30  multiagency plan of care, reduce duplication and promote service 
  4.31  coordination, and improve services to children with disabilities 
  4.32  and their families. 
  4.33     Sec. 5.  [APPROPRIATIONS.] 
  4.34     Subdivision 1.  [DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.] For fiscal year 
  4.35  1996, $....... is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  4.36  department of education for developing and implementing the 
  5.1   training program under section 4. 
  5.2      Subd. 2.  [DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.] For fiscal year 
  5.3   1996, $....... is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  5.4   department of human services for developing and implementing the 
  5.5   training program under section 4.