A bill for an act
relating to health; appropriating money for the Department of Health, health-related
boards, Council on Disability, ombudsman for mental health and disabilities,
ombudsperson for families, ombudsperson for American Indian families, Office
of the Foster Youth Ombudsperson, MNsure, Rare Disease Advisory Council, and
the Department of Revenue; establishing the Health Care Spending Growth Target
Commission and Health Care Spending Technical Advisory Council; identifying
ways to reduce spending by health care organizations and group purchasers and
low-value care; assessing alternative payment methods in rural health care;
assessing feasibility for a health provider directory; requiring compliance with the
No Surprises Act in billing; modifying prescription drug price provisions and
continuity of care provisions; compiling health encounter data; establishing certain
advisory councils, committees, and grant programs; modifying lead testing in
schools and remediation requirements; modifying lead service line requirements;
requiring lead testing in drinking water in child care settings; establishing Minnesota
One Health Microbial Stewardship Collaborative, a comprehensive drug overdose
and morbidity program, a Sentinel Event Review Committee, law
enforcement-involved deadly force encounters advisory committee, and cultural
communications program; setting certain fees; providing for clinical health care
training; establishing a climate resiliency program; changing assisted living
provisions; establishing a program to monitor long COVID, a 988 suicide crisis
lifeline, school-based health centers, Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Families Act,
and Comprehensive and Collaborative Resource and Referral System for Children;
funding for community health boards; developing COVID-19 pandemic delayed
preventive care; changing certain health board fees; establishing easy enrollment
health insurance outreach program; setting certain fees; requiring reports; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections 12A.08, subdivision 3; 62J.84, subdivisions 2,
3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, by adding subdivisions; 62K.15; 62Q.01, by adding a subdivision;
62Q.021, by adding a subdivision; 62Q.55, subdivision 5; 62Q.556; 62Q.56,
subdivision 2; 62Q.73, subdivisions 1, 7; 62U.04, subdivisions 4, 5, 6; 121A.335,
subdivisions 3, 5, by adding a subdivision; 144.122; 144.1505; 144.226,
subdivisions 3, 4; 144.383; 144G.16, subdivision 7; 144G.18; 144G.57, subdivision
8; 145.925; 145A.131, subdivisions 1, 5; 145A.14, by adding a subdivision;
148B.392, subdivision 2; 151.065, subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6; 270B.14, by adding
a subdivision; 403.161; 403.162; Laws 2022, chapter 99, article 1, section 46;
article 3, section 9; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters
62J; 62V; 115; 144; 145; 148; 290; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2022, sections
62J.84, subdivision 5; 62U.10, subdivisions 6, 7, 8; 145.4235; 145.4241; 145.4242;
145.4243; 145.4244; 145.4245; 145.4246; 145.4247; 145.4248; 145.4249; 145.925,
subdivisions 1a, 3, 4, 7, 8.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

ARTICLE 1

APPROPRIATIONS

Section 1. new text begin HEALTH APPROPRIATIONS.
new text end

new text begin The sums shown in the columns marked "Appropriations" are appropriated to the agencies
and for the purposes specified in this article. The appropriations are from the general fund,
or another named fund, and are available for the fiscal years indicated for each purpose.
The figures "2024" and "2025" used in this article mean that the appropriations listed under
them are available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, or June 30, 2025, respectively.
"The first year" is fiscal year 2024. "The second year" is fiscal year 2025. "The biennium"
is fiscal years 2024 and 2025.
new text end

new text begin APPROPRIATIONS
new text end
new text begin Available for the Year
new text end
new text begin Ending June 30
new text end
new text begin 2024
new text end
new text begin 2025
new text end

Sec. 2. new text begin COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH
new text end

new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end

new text begin Total Appropriation
new text end

new text begin $
new text end
new text begin 457,377,000
new text end
new text begin $
new text end
new text begin 454,644,000
new text end
new text begin Appropriations by Fund
new text end
new text begin 2024
new text end
new text begin 2025
new text end
new text begin General
new text end
new text begin 310,084,000
new text end
new text begin 300,108,000
new text end
new text begin State Government
Special Revenue
new text end
new text begin 83,373,000
new text end
new text begin 85,902,000
new text end
new text begin Health Care Access
new text end
new text begin 52,207,000
new text end
new text begin 56,921,000
new text end
new text begin Federal TANF
new text end
new text begin 11,713,000
new text end
new text begin 11,713,000
new text end

new text begin The amounts that may be spent for each
purpose are specified in the following
subdivisions.
new text end

new text begin Subd. 2. new text end

new text begin Health Improvement
new text end

new text begin Appropriations by Fund
new text end
new text begin General
new text end
new text begin 240,491,000
new text end
new text begin 230,169,000
new text end