Minnesota · statute · Minn. Stat. ch. 256 · 93 active provisions
Subdivision 1. Powers transferred. All the powers and duties now vested in or imposed upon the State Board of Control by the laws of this state or by any law of the United States are hereby transferred to, vested in, and imposed upon the commissioner of human services, except the powers and duties otherwise specificall…
Subdivision 1. Administration of grants-in-aid. If, when and during such time as grants-in-aid are provided by the federal government for relief of the poor and accepted by this state, such aid shall be administered pursuant to and in accordance with rules promulgated and adopted by the commissioner of human services;…
Subdivision 1. Authority. The local agency may purchase community social services by grant or purchase of service contract from agencies or individuals approved as vendors. Subd. 2. Duties of local agency. The local agency must: (1) use a written grant or purchase of service contract when purchasing community social se…
Subdivision 1. Minnesota Merit System. The commissioner of human services shall promulgate by rule personnel standards on a merit basis in accordance with federal standards for a merit system of personnel administration for all employees of county boards engaged in the administration of community social services or inc…
Subdivision 1. Establishment of systems. (a) The commissioner of human services shall establish and enhance computer systems necessary for the efficient operation of medical assistance and other programs the commissioner supervises. (b) The commissioner's development costs incurred by computer systems for statewide pro…
Subdivision 1. State agency has lien. When the state agency provides, pays for, or becomes liable for medical care or furnishes subsistence or other payments to a person, the agency shall have a lien for the cost of the care and payments on any and all causes of action or recovery rights under any policy, plan, or cont…
(a) To the extent reasonable and consistent with the goals of providing easily understandable and readable materials and complying with federal and state laws governing the programs, all written materials relating to services and determinations of eligibility for or amounts of benefits that will be given to applicants…
Beginning November 2011, and as part of its annual November and February forecasts thereafter, the commissioner of human services shall provide an accounting of health care expenditures for persons aged birth to 22 years, separate from expenditures for enrolled parents, for all services provided in a Minnesota public h…
Subdivision 1. Authority and purpose. (a) The commissioner of human services shall directly administer the compliance system for general assistance, medical assistance, emergency general assistance, Minnesota supplemental assistance, housing support, preadmission screening, alternative care grants, and all other progra…
The commissioner of human services, in coordination with the commissioner of children, youth, and families, shall grant incentive awards of money specifically appropriated for this purpose to counties: (1) that have not been assessed an administrative penalty under section 256.017 in the corresponding fiscal year; and…
Subdivision 1. Retention rates. When an assistance recovery amount is collected and posted by a county agency under the provisions governing public assistance programs including general assistance medical care formerly codified in chapter 256D, general assistance, and Minnesota supplemental aid, the county may keep one…
Subdivision 1. Duties. The commissioner of human services shall investigate the whole system of public charities and charitable institutions in the state, especially infirmaries and public hospitals, and examine their condition and management. The commissioner may require the officers in charge of any such institution…
Subdivision 1. Creation. (a) The commissioner of human services shall establish a review panel for purposes of reviewing lead investigative agency determinations regarding maltreatment of a vulnerable adult in response to requests received under section 626.557, subdivision 9d, paragraph (b). The panel shall hold quart…
The commissioner of human services may maintain client records and issue public assistance benefits that are over state and federal standards or that are not required by state or federal law, providing the cost of benefits is paid by the counties to the Department of Human Services.
The commissioner, after consultation with the commissioner of public safety, shall prescribe procedures to permit the occasional use of lift-equipped vans that have been financed, in whole or in part, by public money to transport an individual whose own lift-equipped vehicle is unavailable because of equipment failure…
Any federal or state tax rebate received by a recipient of a public assistance program shall not be counted as income or as an asset for purposes of any of the public assistance programs under this chapter or any other chapter, including, but not limited to, chapter 142G, 256B, 256D, 256E, 256I, or 256L to the extent p…
(a) The Department of Human Services, the Department of Health, Direct Care and Treatment, and the Office of the Ombudsman for Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities may establish interagency agreements governing the electronic exchange of data on providers and individuals collected, maintained, or used by each a…
(a) The commissioner shall provide a domestic violence informational brochure that provides information about the existence of domestic violence waivers for eligible public assistance applicants to all applicants of general assistance, medical assistance, and MinnesotaCare. The brochure must explain that eligible appli…
Subdivision 1. Establishment; purpose. There is hereby established the Cultural and Ethnic Communities Leadership Council for the Department of Human Services. The purpose of the council is to advise the commissioner of human services on implementing strategies to reduce inequities and disparities that particularly aff…
Subdivision 1. Establishment of the advisory council. (a) The Opiate Epidemic Response Advisory Council is established to develop and implement a comprehensive and effective statewide effort to address the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic in Minnesota. The council shall focus on: (1) prevention and education, inc…
Subdivision 1. Establishment. (a) The opiate epidemic response fund is established in the state treasury. The commissioner of management and budget shall establish within the opiate epidemic response fund two accounts: (1) a registration and license fee account; and (2) a settlement account. Beginning in fiscal year 20…
Subdivision 1. Human services response contingency account. A human services response contingency account is created in the special revenue fund in the state treasury. Money in the human services response contingency account does not cancel and is appropriated to the commissioner of human services for the purposes spec…
Subdivision 1. Human services judges; appointment. The commissioner of human services, in consultation with the Direct Care and Treatment executive board, may appoint one or more state human services judges to conduct hearings and recommend orders in accordance with subdivisions 3, 3a, 3b, 4a, 5, and 5a. Human services…
Subdivision 1. Scope. (a) The requirements in this section apply to all fair hearings and appeals under sections 142A.20, subdivision 2, and 256.045, subdivision 3, paragraph (a), clauses (1), (2), (3), (5), (6), (7), (10), and (12). Except as provided in subdivisions 3 and 19, the requirements under this section apply…
Subdivision 1. Hearing authority. A local agency must initiate an administrative fraud disqualification hearing for individuals accused of wrongfully obtaining assistance or intentional program violations, in lieu of a criminal action when it has not been pursued, in general assistance, family general assistance progra…