MN HF3693

Repeals Minnesota Statutes section 144.551 (hospital construction moratorium) and related provisions (sections 144.552, 144.553, and 376.08, subdivision 3).

Amends section 62J.17, subdivision 3, to remove reference to the hospital construction moratorium while preserving the nursing home moratorium under section 144A.071.

Eliminates restrictions on hospital bed capacity increases, new hospital construction, and hospital bed relocation that had been in effect under the moratorium.

Removes the public interest review process and alternative approval process requirements that hospitals previously had to follow to obtain exceptions to the moratorium.