MN SF2522

Adds exemption to residential facility licensing moratorium for new foster care licenses and community residential setting licenses for disabled veterans or veterans requiring nursing home level care in veteran exclusive homes.

Adds exemption to group residential housing moratorium for providers operating facilities up to 45 beds serving veterans as board and lodging facilities with supportive services or licensed chemical dependency treatment programs.

Appropriates $250,000 in fiscal year 2015 to the commissioner of administration for up to five grants to conduct housing needs assessments for veterans in communities.

Assessments may examine needs for scattered site housing for homeless or at-risk veterans and their families, or housing addressing health care needs of disabled or aging veterans.

Requires assessments to begin by July 30, 2015, complete by July 30, 2016, with results provided to legislative committees with housing and veterans affairs jurisdiction by January 1, 2017.