1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to health; redefining the role of the health 
  1.3             technology advisory committee; appropriating money; 
  1.4             amending Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 62J.15; 
  1.5             repealing Minnesota Statutes 1996, sections 13.99, 
  1.6             subdivision 19a; 62J.152; and 62J.156. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1996, section 62J.15, is 
  1.9   amended to read: 
  1.10     62J.15 [HEALTH PLANNING.] 
  1.11     Subdivision 1.  [HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.] The 
  1.12  Minnesota health care commission shall legislative commission on 
  1.13  health care access may convene an advisory committee to conduct: 
  1.14     (1) provide the legislature with scientific evaluations 
  1.15  of existing research and technology assessments conducted by 
  1.16  other entities of new and existing health care 
  1.17  technologies proposed benefit mandates that utilize health care 
  1.18  technologies for a specific use and application; and 
  1.19     (2) respond to specific requests by the legislative 
  1.20  commission on health care access for input on the considerations 
  1.21  inherent in various approaches to the utilization of health care 
  1.22  technologies.  
  1.23     The advisory committee may must include members of the 
  1.24  state commission and other persons at least one person appointed 
  1.25  by the Minnesota health care commission.  The advisory committee 
  1.26  must include at least one person representing physicians, at 
  2.1   least one person representing hospitals, and at least one person 
  2.2   representing the health care technology industry.  Health care 
  2.3   technologies include high-cost are defined as drugs, devices, 
  2.4   procedures, or processes applied to human health care, such as 
  2.5   high-cost transplants and expensive scanners and imagers.  The 
  2.6   advisory committee is governed by section 15.0575, subdivision 
  2.7   3, except that members do not receive per diem payments. 
  2.8      Subd. 1a.  [DEFINITION.] For purposes of sections 62J.15 to 
  2.9   62J.156 this section, the terms "evaluate," "evaluation," and 
  2.10  "evaluating" mean means the review or reviewing of research and 
  2.11  technology assessments conducted by other entities relating to 
  2.12  specific technologies and their specific use and application. 
  2.13     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  2.14     $....... is appropriated from the general fund to the 
  2.15  legislative commission on health care access to convene the 
  2.16  health technology advisory committee established under section 1.
  2.17     Sec. 3.  [REPEALER.] 
  2.18     Minnesota Statutes 1996, sections 13.99, subdivision 19a; 
  2.19  62J.152; and 62J.156, are repealed.