MN HF8

Increases monthly hour limits for personal care assistants and support workers from 275 to 310 hours per month.

Temporarily allows parents, stepparents, legal guardians of minors, and spouses to provide and receive compensation for personal care assistance services during the COVID-19 peacetime emergency, expiring January 31, 2021 or 60 days after emergency termination, whichever is earlier.

Temporarily increases rates for direct support services by 13.75 percent, requiring providers to use at least 80 percent of additional revenue for worker wages, salaries, benefits, and related taxes, with remainder for CDC sanitation and personal protective equipment compliance.

Appropriates $13,390,000 from the general fund in fiscal year 2021 to implement direct support professional provisions, with general fund base increased by $1,000 each in fiscal years 2022 and 2023.

Requires providers receiving rate increases to prepare and post distribution plans within 60 days specifying how additional revenue will be used, with contact information for workers to report non-compliance.