SF3694 Summary

• Restores requirement for commissioner to provide 90-day notice to lead agencies before implementing MnCHOICES assessment requirements for personal care assistance services.

• Prohibits TEFRA parental contribution payments during COVID-19 peacetime emergency; collected payments after March 13, 2020 must be refunded; payments may resume first full month after emergency ends.

• Appropriates $25,000,000 for emergency retention grants to disability services providers to maintain infrastructure during COVID-19, with priority given to providers ineligible for existing COVID-19 funding.

• Temporarily increases personal care assistant monthly hour limit from 240 to 310 hours per month; increases direct support services rates by 15 percent; increases home and community-based waiver service rates by 10 percent; increases nonemergency medical transportation rates.

• All temporary rate increases and service limit expansions expire January 31, 2021, or 60 days after COVID-19 peacetime emergency ends, whichever is earlier; providers must use at least 80 percent of additional revenue for worker wages and safety compliance.