1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; authorizing the licensure of two intermediate care 
1.3 	facilities for persons with developmental disabilities to replace one larger facility; 
1.4 	establishing the payment rate for the new facilities; appropriating money;
1.5 	proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 252.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. [252.295] LICENSING EXCEPTION.
1.8 	Notwithstanding section 252.294, the commissioner may license two six-bed, level 
1.9 	B intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities to replace a 
1.10 	15-bed level A facility in Minneapolis that is not accessible to disabled persons. The 
1.11 	new facilities must be accessible to disabled persons and must be located on a different 
1.12 	site or sites in Hennepin County. Notwithstanding section 256B.5012, the payment rate 
1.13 	at the new facilities is $200.47.

1.14 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 1.15 	$....... is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of human services 
1.16 	for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007, for the purposes of section 1.