1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to labor and industry; medical professional safety; creating a 
1.3 	chemotherapy drug safety working group; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. CHEMOTHERAPY DRUG SAFETY WORKING GROUP.
 1.6 	(a) The commissioner of labor and industry, in consultation with the commissioner of 
1.7 	health, shall convene a working group to address the safe handling of chemotherapy drugs.
1.8 	(b) The commissioner of labor and industry shall invite participants from each 
1.9 	of the following groups:
1.10 	(1) the Department of Labor and Industry, including representatives of the Minnesota 
1.11 	Occupational Safety and Health Administration;
1.12 	(2) the Department of Health;
1.13 	(3) the Minnesota Nurses Association;
1.14 	(4) the Minnesota Hospital Association;
1.15 	(5) the Minnesota Organization of Registered Nurses;
1.16 	(6) the Minnesota Advanced Practice Registered Nurses Coalition;
1.17 	(7) SEIU Healthcare;
1.18 	(8) the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy;
1.19 	(9) the Minnesota Pharmacists Association; and 
1.20 	(10) the Minnesota Oncology Nurses Society.
1.21 	(c) Each invited group may select up to three participants to sit on the working group.
1.22 	(d) The working group must convene no later than July 1, 2016. The working group 
1.23 	must report recommendations for improving the safe handling of chemotherapy drugs to 
2.1 	the legislative committees with jurisdiction over health and labor and industry no later 
2.2 	than January 1, 2017.

2.3 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 2.4 	$....... in fiscal year 2017 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner 
2.5 	of labor and industry to convene and administer the working group described in section 1. 
2.6 	This is a onetime appropriation.