Bill Summary: HF1710

• Replace the director of the Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning with the commissioner of administration on the Environmental Quality Board.

• Transfer staff and administrative support for the Environmental Quality Board from the Office of Strategic and Long-Range Planning to the Pollution Control Agency.

• Extend the Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Committee sunset date from June 30, 2013 to June 30, 2019.

• Establish a seven-member selection committee to recommend approval of qualified laboratory assessors and assessment bodies under the department's accreditation program.

• Create a Department of Health Licensed Home Care Provider Advisory Council with eight members to advise on regulations, community standards, and emerging issues in home care services.

• Require the Department of Human Services to adopt rules within 24 months governing positive support strategies, safety interventions, and emergency manual restraint use in licensed facilities under chapter 245D.

• Authorize the Commissioner of Natural Resources to use good cause exemptions for rulemaking to conform mining and mineral lease rules with changes in H.F. No. 976.