| 1 | 1 | | 1.1 A bill for an act |
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| 2 | 2 | | 1.2 relating to health; authorizing electronic monitoring in certain health care facilities; |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1.3 proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144. |
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| 4 | 4 | | 1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: |
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| 5 | 5 | | 1.5 Section 1. [144.6504] ADDITIONAL ELECTRONIC MONITORING IN HEALTH |
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| 6 | 6 | | 1.6CARE FACILITIES. |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1.7 (a) To address and combat the occurrence of patient abuse in health care facilities, it is |
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| 8 | 8 | | 1.8necessary to allow electronic monitoring in patient rooms. Studies document the prevalence |
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| 9 | 9 | | 1.9of abusive acts against patients occurring among vulnerable patients. The vulnerable patient |
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| 10 | 10 | | 1.10groups include but are not limited to: |
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| 11 | 11 | | 1.11 (1) elderly patients; |
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| 12 | 12 | | 1.12 (2) young patients; |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1.13 (3) neurodivergent patients; |
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| 14 | 14 | | 1.14 (4) patients with physical or mental disabilities; |
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| 15 | 15 | | 1.15 (5) pediatric patients; and |
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| 16 | 16 | | 1.16 (6) patients with impaired cognition. |
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| 17 | 17 | | 1.17Patients admitted to health care facilities defined in this paragraph for a continuous period |
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| 18 | 18 | | 1.18longer than 24 hours may conduct electronic monitoring of their rooms using electronic |
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| 19 | 19 | | 1.19monitoring devices placed in their rooms as provided in section 144.6502. "Health care |
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| 20 | 20 | | 1.20facilities" means hospitals licensed under sections 144.50 to 144.56, residential hospice |
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| 21 | 21 | | 1.21facilities licensed under section 144A.753, and birth centers licensed under section 144.615. |
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| 22 | 22 | | 1Section 1. |
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| 23 | 23 | | 25-05327 as introduced03/31/25 REVISOR SGS/NS |
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| 24 | 24 | | SENATE |
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| 25 | 25 | | STATE OF MINNESOTA |
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| 26 | 26 | | S.F. No. 3240NINETY-FOURTH SESSION |
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| 27 | 27 | | (SENATE AUTHORS: ABELER and Hoffman) |
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| 28 | 28 | | OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE |
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| 29 | 29 | | Introduction and first reading04/03/2025 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Referred to Health and Human Services 2.1"Electronic monitoring device" has the meaning given in section 144.6502, subdivision 1, |
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| 31 | 31 | | 2.2paragraph (e). |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2.3 (b) The provisions of electronic monitoring in section 144.6502 apply to this section. |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2Section 1. |
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| 34 | 34 | | 25-05327 as introduced03/31/25 REVISOR SGS/NS |
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