HF 4219 Summary

• Recovery community organizations must now be credentialed by the Minnesota Board of Recovery Services (rather than simply meeting commissioner-identified certification requirements) to be eligible vendors for peer support services.

• Creates a 13-member Minnesota Board of Recovery Services appointed by the governor, consisting of 6 certified peer specialists, 2 professional counselors, 2 alcohol and drug counselors, and 3 public members, with geographic and diversity requirements.

• Board duties include developing credentialing criteria for recovery organizations, processing applications for initial credentialing and renewals, establishing administrative procedures, maintaining a public register of credentialed organizations, and adopting necessary rules.

• Recovery organizations seeking credentialing must be Minnesota-based nonprofits with board members in recovery, demonstrate they are a recovery organization, describe recovery-supporting activities, and pay a nonrefundable application fee established by the board.

• Appeals of board decisions on credentialing denials or failures to renew are available through Minnesota administrative hearing procedures under chapter 14.