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MN HF662
Bill
Status
2/18/2013
Primary Sponsor
Carolyn Laine
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AI Summary
Bill Summary: HF662
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Modifies health professional loan forgiveness program by changing "affidavit" to "confirmation" for practice verification and allowing reallocation of unused funds among professions based on vacancy rates.
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Establishes Minnesota Radon Awareness Act requiring sellers of residential real property to disclose radon test results, mitigation systems, and radon concentrations to buyers before signing purchase agreements, with specific warning statement required.
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Requires tuberculosis infection control programs compliant with CDC guidelines for supervised living facilities, outpatient surgical centers, boarding care homes, nursing homes, home care providers, and hospice providers.
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Expands adverse health events reporting requirements to include invasive procedures (not just surgery), changes "disability" to "injury," adds falls and test result follow-up failures as reportable events, and removes certain reportable conditions including neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.
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Defines "occupational therapy practitioner" to include both occupational therapists and assistants; authorizes Minnesota Responds Medical Reserve Corps volunteers to be deemed state employees for workers' compensation and liability purposes; creates criminal background study requirements for volunteer health teams; modifies poison control center funding cycle from odd-numbered to every fifth year; and permits field-delivered therapy for communicable diseases.
Legislative Description
Omnibus Department of Health policy bill, and Minnesota Radon Awareness Act.
Last Action
HF indefinitely postponed
4/20/2013