Assisted living licensure technical changes 2020, 7th Special Session HF19/SF27 Chapter 1, Article 6 Effective: Various Short description Technical changes to various assisted living licensure requirements. Summary In anticipation of the transition to assisted living licensure, Care Providers of Minnesota staff worked with Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), advocates, and other provider groups to identify technical changes to the assisted living licensure law. Although they covered multiple topic areas, these changes were necessary to smooth the application and transition to assisted living licensure that was set to begin in May of 2021 for the August 1, 2021, effective date of licensure. The following is a list of the sections and a short summary of the language change: •
Section 1: Technical changes to 626.557 language—Language mistakenly omitted from licensure enactment clarifying the application of the applicability and liability of the reporting of vulnerable adults statute
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Section 2: Amounts—This language clarifies the license fees applicable to the various categories
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Section 3: Technical 626.557 language—Language mistakenly omitted from licensure enactment clarifying the application of the applicability and liability of the reporting of vulnerable adults statute
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Section 4: Campus setting—Clarifies the definition of the assisted living facility campus to mean: o
a single building having two or more addresses, located on the same property with a single property identification number;
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two or more buildings, each with a separate address, located on the same
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two or more buildings at different addresses, located on properties with
property with a single property identification number; or different property identification numbers, that share a portion of a legal property boundary
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Section 5: Technical AL definition—This change eliminated a redundancy and added an exempt category for any establishment that exclusively or primarily serves as a shelter or temporary shelter for victims of domestic or any other form of violence
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