Minnesota 2023-2024 Regular Session

Minnesota Senate Bill SF695 Compare Versions

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1	1	1.1 A bill for an act
2	2	1.2 relating to human services; modifying community first services and supports
3	3	1.3 payment rates; amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 256B.851, subdivisions
4	4	1.4 3, 4, 5.
5	5	1.5BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
6	6	1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 256B.851, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
7	7	1.7 Subd. 3.Payment rates; base wage index.When initially establishing (a) Beginning
8	8	1.8January 1, 2024, and every two years thereafter, the commissioner must establish the base
9	9	1.9wage component values, the commissioner must use using the Minnesota-specific median
10	10	1.10wage for the standard occupational classification (SOC) codes published by the Bureau of
11	11	1.11Labor Statistics in the most recently available edition of the Occupational Handbook available
12	12	1.12January 1, 2021. The commissioner must calculate the base wage component values as
13	13	1.13follows for:
14	14	1.14 (1) for personal care assistance services, CFSS, extended personal care assistance services,
15	15	1.15and extended CFSS., the base wage component value equals the median wage for personal
16	16	1.16care aide (SOC code 31-1120);
17	17	1.17 (2) for enhanced rate personal care assistance services and enhanced rate CFSS., the
18	18	1.18base wage component value equals the product of median wage for personal care aide (SOC
19	19	1.19code 31-1120) and the value of the enhanced rate under section 256B.0659, subdivision
20	20	1.2017a 256B.85, subdivision 7a; and
21	21	1.21 (3) for qualified professional services and CFSS worker training and development., the
22	22	1.22base wage component value equals the sum of 70 percent of the median wage for registered
23	23	1.23nurse (SOC code 29-1141), 15 percent of the median wage for health care social worker
24	24	1Section 1.
25	25	23-00663 as introduced12/14/22 REVISOR AGW/HL
26	26	SENATE
27	27	STATE OF MINNESOTA
28	28	S.F. No. 695NINETY-THIRD SESSION
29	29	(SENATE AUTHORS: FATEH, Utke, Hoffman, Mitchell and Abeler)
30	30	OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
31	31	Introduction and first reading01/25/2023
32	32	Referred to Health and Human Services 2.1(SOC code 21-1099), and 15 percent of the median wage for social and human service
33	33	2.2assistant (SOC code 21-1093).
34	34	2.3 (b) The commissioner must publish on the department's website the current base wage
35	35	2.4component values.
36	36	2.5 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective January 1, 2024.
37	37	2.6 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 256B.851, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
38	38	2.7 Subd. 4.Payment rates; total wage index.(a) The commissioner must multiply the
39	39	2.8base wage component values in subdivision 3 by one plus the appropriate competitive
40	40	2.9workforce factor. The product is products are the total wage component value values. The
41	41	2.10commissioner must publish on the department's website the current total wage component
42	42	2.11values.
43	43	2.12 (b) For personal care assistance services, CFSS, extended personal care assistance
44	44	2.13services, extended CFSS, enhanced rate personal care assistance services, and enhanced
45	45	2.14rate CFSS, the initial competitive workforce factor is 4.7 percent. Beginning January 1,
46	46	2.152024, and every two years thereafter, the commissioner must adjust the total wage component
47	47	2.16values in this paragraph by applying an updated competitive workforce factor using the
48	48	2.17most recently available data. The commissioner must calculate the biennial update to the
49	49	2.18competitive workforce factor after establishing the base wage component values required
50	50	2.19in subdivision 3. The commissioner must determine the updated competitive workforce
51	51	2.20factor by adjusting it toward the percent difference between:
52	52	2.21 (1) the median wage for personal care aide (SOC code 39-9021); and
53	53	2.22 (2) the weighted average wage for all other SOC codes with the same Bureau of Labor
54	54	2.23Statistics classifications for education, experience, and training required for job competency.
55	55	2.24 (c) For each biennial update of the competitive workforce factor under paragraph (b),
56	56	2.25the commissioner must not increase or decrease the competitive workforce factor from its
57	57	2.26previous value by more than three percentage points. If, after a biennial adjustment, the
58	58	2.27competitive workforce factor is less than or equal to zero, the competitive workforce factor
59	59	2.28must be zero. The commissioner must publish on the department's website the updated
60	60	2.29competitive workforce factor.
61	61	2.30 (c) (d) For qualified professional services and CFSS worker training and development,
62	62	2.31the competitive workforce factor is zero percent.
63	63	2.32 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective January 1, 2024.
64	64	2Sec. 2.
65	65	23-00663 as introduced12/14/22 REVISOR AGW/HL 3.1 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 256B.851, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
66	66	3.2 Subd. 5.Payment rates; component values.(a) The commissioner must use the
67	67	3.3following component values:
68	68	3.4 (1) employee vacation, sick, and training factor, 8.71 percent;
69	69	3.5 (2) employer taxes and workers' compensation factor, 11.56 percent;
70	70	3.6 (3) employee benefits factor, 12.04 percent;
71	71	3.7 (4) client programming and supports factor, 2.30 percent;
72	72	3.8 (5) program plan support factor, 7.00 percent;
73	73	3.9 (6) general business and administrative expenses factor, 13.25 percent;
74	74	3.10 (7) program administration expenses factor, 2.90 percent; and
75	75	3.11 (8) absence and utilization factor, 3.90 percent.
76	76	3.12 (b) For purposes of implementation, the commissioner shall use the following
77	77	3.13implementation components:
78	78	3.14 (1) personal care assistance services and CFSS: 75.45 percent;
79	79	3.15 (2) enhanced rate personal care assistance services and enhanced rate CFSS: 75.45
80	80	3.16percent; and
81	81	3.17 (3) qualified professional services and CFSS worker training and development: 75.45
82	82	3.18percent.
83	83	3.19 (c) Beginning January 1, 2026, and every two years thereafter, the implementation
84	84	3.20components under paragraph (b) must be increased by two percentage points until the value
85	85	3.21of each implementation component is 100 percent.
86	86	3.22 (d) Beginning January 1, 2024, and every two years thereafter, the component value in
87	87	3.23paragraph (a), clause (4), shall be updated for changes in the Consumer Price Index by the
88	88	3.24difference between the most recent update and the data available six months and one day
89	89	3.25before the scheduled update.
90	90	3.26 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective January 1, 2024.
91	91	3Sec. 3.
92	92	23-00663 as introduced12/14/22 REVISOR AGW/HL