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MN HF4398

State agencies and departments; various provisions modified relating to Department of Health, water supply systems and wastewater treatment facilities, education and loan forgiveness, law enforcement, and drug overdose and substance use; reports required; and money appropriated.

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Introduced
03/17/2022
In Committee
03/17/2022
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
05/23/2022

Introduced Session

92nd Legislature 2021-2022

Bill Summary

A bill for an act relating to state government; appropriating money for the Department of Health and the Board of Dietetics and Nutrition Practice; amending certain health provisions for health care spending, health plan companies, balanced billing, rural health care, health care providers, suicide prevention, AIDS prevention, community health workers, health disparities, and long-term care facilities; establishing certain fees and surcharges, health professional education and loan forgiveness, and prescription drugs; requiring compliance with federal No Surprises Act; establishing Advisory Council on Water Supply Systems and Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Sentinel Event Review Committee, Law-Enforcement-Involved Deadly Force Encounter Community Advisory Committee, Long COVID Surveillance System, Mercury Surveillance System, and Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Families Act; establishing grants for health professions training sites, primary rural residency training, clinical health care training, drug overdose and substance abuse prevention, climate resiliency, healthy child development, lead remediation, community healing, chronic disease prevention and health disparities, public health education, public health Americorps, Minnesota School Health Initiative, and skin-lightening products public awareness and education; requiring reports; amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, sections 62J.84, subdivisions 2, 7, 8, by adding subdivisions; 62Q.021, by adding a subdivision; 62Q.55, subdivision 5; 62Q.556; 62Q.56, subdivision 2; 62Q.73, subdivision 7; 144.122; 144.1501, as amended; 144.1505, subdivision 2; 144.383; 144.554; 145.56, by adding subdivisions; 145.924; 403.161, subdivisions 1, 3, 5, 6; Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, sections 62J.84, subdivisions 6, 9; 403.11, subdivision 1; Laws 2021, First Special Session chapter 7, article 3, section 44; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 62J; 115; 144; 145. 1

AI Summary

This bill: This bill establishes the Minnesota Health Care Spending Growth Target Commission to develop and implement a program to limit the growth of health care spending in the state. The commission will set targets for health care spending growth and monitor progress toward those targets. The bill also requires certain health care providers and facilities to comply with the federal No Surprises Act, which aims to protect consumers from surprise medical bills. It establishes an advisory council on water supply systems and wastewater treatment facilities, a Sentinel Event Review Committee to investigate law enforcement-involved deadly force encounters, and a law-enforcement-involved deadly force encounter community advisory committee. The bill also includes provisions related to health care provider education loan forgiveness, community health worker initiatives, climate resiliency, lead remediation, mercury surveillance, skin-lightening products education, behavioral health crisis services, AIDS prevention, community solutions for healthy child development, lead remediation in schools and child care settings, community healing, chronic disease prevention and health disparities, public health education and training, and school health initiatives, among other things. The bill appropriates money from the general fund, state government special revenue fund, and health care access fund to the Department of Health and health-related boards to implement these provisions.

Committee Categories

Health and Social Services

Sponsors (1)

Last Action

House Health Finance and Policy (13:00 3/28/2022 ) (on 03/28/2022)
(1 Companion Bills)

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