Bill Summary: SF887 - Omnibus Health Department Policy

• Establishes the Minnesota Radon Awareness Act requiring residential real property sellers to disclose radon test results and concentrations to buyers in writing before sale, with a standardized warning statement about radon health risks; exempts certain transfers including gifts, court orders, foreclosures, and family transfers.

• Classifies criminal history record data on Minnesota Responds Medical Reserve Corps volunteers as private data; permits the commissioner of health to conduct criminal background studies on volunteers applying for behavioral health or mobile medical teams and deny membership based on specified felony convictions.

• Designates Minnesota Responds Medical Reserve Corps volunteers responding to commissioner requests as state employees for purposes of workers' compensation, tort claim defense, and indemnification; provides reimbursement for travel and subsistence expenses during authorized deployments.

• Modifies adverse health events reporting requirements for healthcare facilities, changing "disability" to "injury" throughout and adding new reportable events including patient falls, loss of irreplaceable biological specimens, and failure to communicate laboratory or radiology test results.

• Requires tuberculosis infection control programs based on CDC guidelines for nursing homes, home care providers, hospice providers, outpatient surgical centers, supervised living facilities, and boarding care homes.

• Amends occupational therapy provisions to define "occupational therapy practitioner" to include both occupational therapists and assistants; updates physical agent modalities requirements to apply to both practitioner types.