Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 8, August 19, 2024
Section 246.595 - SOUTHERN CITIES COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINICSubdivision 1.Service provision.The commissioner of human services shall offer medically necessary psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients in the Faribault service area through the Southern Cities Community Health Clinic. For purposes of this requirement, the Faribault service area is expanded to also include geographic areas of the state within 100 miles of Faribault.
Subd. 2.Consultation required.The commissioner of human services shall consult with providers of psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients, family members of developmentally disabled clients, the chairs of the house of representatives and senate committees with jurisdiction over health and human services fiscal issues, and the exclusive representatives when considering policy changes related to:
(1) the future of the Southern Cities Community Health Clinic;(2) the services currently provided by that clinic to developmentally disabled clients in the Faribault regional center catchment area; and(3) changes in the model for providing those services.Subd. 3.Guarantee of service availability; legislative notice.(a) The Department of Human Services shall guarantee the provision of medically necessary psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients in the Faribault service area through the Southern Cities Community Health Clinic until or unless other appropriate arrangements have been made to provide those clients with those services and the requirements of paragraph (b) are met.(b) The commissioner shall notify the chairs of the house of representatives and senate committees with jurisdiction over health and human services fiscal issues of plans to use other arrangements to provide medically necessary psychiatric and dental services to developmentally disabled clients in the Faribault service area. The commissioner must not implement these arrangements unless a regular legislative session has convened and adjourned since the date notice was given under this paragraph.Subd. 2.Amount of aid.(a) A district is eligible to receive school readiness aid for eligible prekindergarten pupils enrolled in a school readiness program under section 124D.15 if the biennial plan required by section 124D.15, subdivision 3a, has been approved by the commissioner.(b) A district must receive school readiness aid equal to:(1) the number of four-year-old children in the district on October 1 for the previous school year times the ratio of 50 percent of the total school readiness aid for that year to the total number of four-year-old children reported to the commissioner for the previous school year; plus(2) the number of pupils enrolled in the school district from families eligible for the free or reduced-price meals program for the previous school year times the ratio of 50 percent of the total school readiness aid for that year to the total number of pupils in the state from families eligible for the free or reduced-price meals program for the previous school year.(c) The total school readiness aid entitlement equals $23,558,000 for fiscal year 2016 and $33,683,000 for fiscal year 2017 and later.Subd. 3.Use of aid.School readiness aid shall be used only to provide a school readiness program and may be used to provide transportation. Not more than five percent of program revenue, as defined in subdivision 5, may be used for the cost of administering the program. Aid must be used to supplement and not supplant local, state, and federal funding. Aid may not be used for instruction and services required under sections 125A.03 to 125A.24 and 125A.65. Aid may not be used to purchase land or construct buildings, but may be used to lease or renovate existing buildings.
Subd. 4.[Repealed, 1Sp2005 c 5 art 7s 21]
Subd. 5.Reserve account.School readiness revenue, which includes aids, fees, grants, and all other revenues received by the district school readiness programs, must be maintained in a reserve account within the community service fund.
Subd. 6.MS 2012 [Repealed, 2012 c 239 art 3s 6]
Subd. 7.MS 2012 [Repealed, 2012 c 239 art 3s 6]
Subd. 8. Funding. The commissioner and the commissioner of education shall enter into an agreement under which the commissioner of education shall distribute funds appropriated for programs under this section. Renumbered from Minn. Stat. § 256.0121 by 2024 Minn. Laws, ch. 80,s 4-26, eff. 7/1/2024.