MN HF168

Increases monthly hour limitations for personal care assistants from 275 to 310 hours per month and for support workers from 275 to 310 hours per month of Community First Services and Supports (CFSS).

Temporarily permits parents, stepparents, legal guardians of minors, and spouses to provide and be paid for personal care assistance services during a COVID-19 peacetime emergency declared by the governor, expiring January 31, 2021 or 60 days after emergency termination, whichever is earlier.

Requires a temporary 15 percent rate increase for direct support services provided under covered programs and personal care assistance while the provision is effective, with providers required to use at least 80 percent of additional revenue for wages, salaries, benefits, and related taxes for personal care assistants.

Appropriates $43,000 in fiscal year 2020 and $26,170,000 in fiscal year 2021 from the general fund to the commissioner of human services to implement personal care assistance provisions, with eligible CARES Act expenditures to be funded from CARES Act accounts instead.