Loading chat...

MN HF662

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/18/2013

Primary Sponsor

Carolyn Laine

Click for details

Origin

House of Representatives

88th Legislature 2013-2014

AI Summary

Bill Summary: HF662

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy3/18/2013
Civil Law3/13/2013
Judiciary Finance and Policy3/11/2013
Health and Human Services Policy2/18/2013

Full Bill Text

No bill text available