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MN HF25
Bill
Status
8/12/2020
Primary Sponsor
Debra Kiel
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AI Summary
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Modifies customized living quality improvement grants for brain injury, community access for disability inclusion, and elderly waiver providers to require serving at least 75 waiver participants with 75 percent of clients being waiver participants, effective July 1, 2021.
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Extends 15 COVID-19 waivers and modifications through June 30, 2021, including telemedicine expansions, remote service delivery, and flexibilities for licensing requirements, with limited extensions for substance use disorder treatment and economic assistance programs.
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Appropriates $20,305,000 in fiscal year 2021 from coronavirus relief fund for retention grants to home and community-based service providers to cover fixed costs and business interruptions from COVID-19 closures, available until December 5, 2020.
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Appropriates $10,125,000 in fiscal year 2021 from coronavirus relief fund for public health grants to disability services providers implementing COVID-19 social distancing measures, with grants up to $200,000 per provider and priority given to providers with greatest need.
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Directs revisor to codify customized living quality improvement grant provisions as Minnesota Statutes, section 256.479.
Legislative Description
COVID-19; customized living quality improvement grants modified, peacetime emergency modification portions extended to economic assistance program application requirements, retention and public health grants established, and money appropriated.
Last Action
Introduction and first reading, referred to Health and Human Services Finance Division
8/12/2020