HF4227 Summary

• Creates a 12-member Minnesota Health Policy Commission appointed by the Legislative Coordinating Commission to provide recommendations on reducing health care costs and improving outcomes through commercial and public programs, with four non-voting legislative liaison members.

• Commission must compare Minnesota's health care costs against other states, identify cost drivers, monitor health care reform efforts, and submit annual policy recommendations to legislative health committees by June 15 each year.

• Enacts the Nurse Licensure Compact, establishing multistate nurse licensure privileges allowing registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPN/VNs) licensed in one party state to practice in all other party states under a multistate licensure privilege.

• Establishes the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators to oversee implementation, with each party state having one administrator; compact becomes effective when 26 states enact it or by December 31, 2018.

• Appropriates unspecified funding in fiscal year 2019 to the Minnesota Health Policy Commission from the general fund and to the Board of Nursing from the state government special revenue fund for implementation, effective no sooner than July 1, 2019.