Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0148

2E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Requiring the
commissioner of public safety to create a grant process for crisis intervention
team training for local police and sheriff departments; specifying consultation
and training requirements; requiring sheriffs and local corrections to use a
mental health screening tool approved by the commissioner of corrections in
consultation with the commissioner of human services and local correction staff
to identify persons with mental illness; providing for a county jail reentry
project to promote public safety, prevent recidivism and promote successful
reintegration of individuals identified as having mental illness into the
community, specifying grant application and program components; requiring the
commissioner of corrections to develop a fair, firm and consistent protocol for
inmates to have an opportunity to be released from disciplinary confinement in a
timely matter; appropriating money to the commissioner of corrections for the
county jail reentry projects grant program, to the commissioner of human
services to fund discharge planning for offenders with serious and persistent
mental illness, to the supreme court to develop and implement standards for
mental health courts and to the commissioner of public safety for grants to
local police departments for crisis intervention training

ARTICLE 2 -
CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH

Authorizing and providing for children's mental health
grants to assist counties, Indian tribes, children's collaboratives and mental
health providers in providing services to children with emotional disturbances
and their families, specifying certain grant application and reporting
requirements; requiring mental health training for child foster care providers;
providing intervention collaborative services for high risk children; increasing
rates for children's therapeutic services and supports under the medical
assistance (MA) children's therapeutic services and supports program; requiring
the commissioner of human services to convene a children's mental health work
group and to report to the legislature by a certain date; providing for trauma
focused evidence based practices grants for eligible organizations; requiring
the commissioner to allocate amounts to counties for costs of funding respite
care; appropriating money to the commissioner of human services to develop and
implement evidence based practice in children's mental health care and
treatment, the early intervention collaborative program, for childhood trauma
grants and respite care

ARTICLE 3 - MISCELLANEOUS

Creating a loan forgiveness
program for individuals employed by a nonprofit agency providing mental health
services for cultural or ethnic minority clients; authorizing the commissioner
of health to make grants, defining qualified education loan, specifying
eligibility and providing for disbursements; requiring county boards to provide
or contract for sufficient community support services to meet the needs of
adults having an acute episode regardless of insurance status, requiring the
community support services program to promote mental health stabilization and
increase functioning, defining community support services, requiring the use of
all available funding streams and requiring the commissioner to collect data on
community support services programs; providing for examiners for state residents
admitted to bordering states; requiring the commissioner of human services to
make grants to nonprofit organizations to ensure culturally competent mental
health services are provided to individuals in the state; making individuals in
correctional facilities diagnosed with mental illness eligible for general
assistance medical care for a certain period of time from the date of release
from confinement; requiring the commissioner of human services to fund a
Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) and children's mental health pilot
project to measure the effect of children¿s identified mental health needs on
MFIP participants ability to obtain and retain employment, specifying certain
project components and evaluation requirements; requiring the commissioner to
consult stakeholders for evidence based practices implementation; requiring the
office of enterprise technology in consultation with the commissioner of human
services to provide televideo conferencing under certain conditions, specifying
eligibility; requiring the commissioner of human services to fund up to a
certain number of dual diagnosis programs for high risk adults with serious
mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse problems; requiring the
commissioner of human services to explore in consultation with the office of
higher education and provide to the legislature different options for ensuring
higher education students carry health insurance; appropriating money to the
commissioner of human services for community health programs, suicide
intervention and prevention grants and culturally competent mental health
services grants, to the housing finance agency (HFA) for the Bridges rental
housing assistance program, to the commissioner of human services for the MFIP
and children's mental health pilot project, to the office of enterprise
technology for televideo conferencing and the commissioner of human services for
the dual diagnosis demonstration project

ARTICLE 4 - MENTAL HEALTH
FUNDING

Modifying and expanding mental health services funding provisions for
medical assistance (MA) coverage, general assistance medical care (GAMC) and
MinnesotaCare; increasing rates for adult rehabilitative mental health services
and children's therapeutic services and support services; modifying diagnostic
assessment reimbursement rates; modifying payments for mental health services,
mental health provider travel time and mental health telemedicine; allowing
reimbursements for diagnostic assessments; modifying provisions relating to
general assistance medical mental health coverage; including mental health
coverage under certain limited benefits coverage for single adults and
households without children; requiring the commissioner of human services to
increase certain reimbursement rates; requiring the commissioner of human
services to seek federal approval to expand medical assistance to include
certain mental health services; appropriating money to the commissioner of human
services for the funding of mobile mental health crisis services and the
implementation of the mental health services outcomes and tracking system and to
the commissioner of health to fund the suicide prevention program
(rt)