1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to health; updating nursing home change of ownership;amending 
1.3 	Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 144A.06, subdivision 2.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 144A.06, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
1.6 		Subd. 2.New license required; change of ownership. (a) The commissioner of health 
1.7 	by rule shall prescribe procedures for licensure under this section.
1.8 	(b) A new license is required and the prospective licensee must apply for a license prior 
1.9 	to operating a currently licensed nursing home. The licensee must change whenever one of 
1.10 	the following events occur:
1.11 	(1) the form of the licensee's legal entity structure is converted or changed to a different 
1.12 	type of legal entity structure;
1.13 	(2) the licensee dissolves, consolidates, or merges with another legal organization and 
1.14 	the licensee's legal organization does not survive;
1.15 	(3) within the previous 24 months, 50 percent or more of the licensee's ownership interest 
1.16 	is transferred, whether by a single transaction or multiple transactions to:
1.17 	(i) a different person or multiple persons; or
1.18 	(ii) a person or multiple different persons who had less than a five percent ownership 
1.19 	interest in the facility at the time of the first transaction; or
1.20 	(4) any other event or combination of events that results in a substitution, elimination, 
1.21 	or withdrawal of the licensee's responsibility for the facility.