Bill > SF1918

This bill modifies numerous provisions related to healthcare and senior care in Minnesota, focusing on protecting residents' rights in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospice care. The bill expands consent requirements for electronic monitoring in care facilities, strengthening protections against retaliation for residents who report issues or use monitoring devices. It requires annual training for nursing home employees on preventing retaliation and adds new provisions to the Home Care and Assisted Living Advisory Council, increasing its membership to 14 and expanding its representation to include more diverse perspectives from care recipients and their families. The bill prohibits mandatory binding arbitration agreements in assisted living contracts, ensuring residents cannot be forced to sign away their legal rights as a condition of admission. Additionally, the bill enhances medication management requirements, specifying that registered nurses or qualified delegated staff must monitor and reassess medication needs, and expands hospice patient rights to include immediate pain medication availability, the ability to revoke hospice election, and receive curative treatment for unrelated conditions while remaining on hospice. The legislation also modifies healthcare agent powers, limiting their ability to restrict a principal's communications and interactions with others, and establishes new legal remedies for residents who experience retaliation in care facilities.

Government Affairs, Health and Social Services, Justice

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF1918&ssn=0&y=2025