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MN HF27
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 elderly waiver and brain injury/community access for disability inclusion providers, expanding eligibility requirements and extending the grant program with new criteria effective July 1, 2021.
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Extends 15 specified COVID-19 emergency waivers and modifications through June 30, 2021, including telemedicine services, remote service delivery, and flexible licensing requirements, with certain portions limited to specific public health measures.
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Appropriates $20,305,000 from the coronavirus relief fund for retention grants to eligible home and community-based service providers to address COVID-19 business interruption costs, available until December 5, 2020.
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Appropriates $10,125,000 from the coronavirus relief fund for COVID-19-related public health grants to disability services providers implementing social distancing measures, with maximum grants of $200,000 per provider and applications due by November 15, 2020.
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Authorizes the commissioner of human services to request federal waivers to provide emergency funding to home and community-based providers to address COVID-19 effects.
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