1.1.................... moves to amend H.F. No. 950, the fourth engrossment, as follows:
1.2Page 2, line 20, delete "subdivision" and insert "subdivisions 3 and"
1.3Page 3, line 13, delete "Representation" and insert "Certification"
1.4Page 5, line 20, delete "This chapter" and insert "Chapter 179A"
1.5Page 5, line 22, delete "this chapter" and insert "chapter 179A"
1.6Page 5, line 34, delete "required"
1.7Page 6, line 26, delete "July" and insert "September"
1.8Page 6, line 29, delete "human services" and insert "mediation services"
1.9Page 6, line 31, before "subsequent" insert "up to three"
1.10Page 6, line 32, delete "for an additional three months" and after the period insert
1.11"The commissioner of mediation services shall provide lists compiled under section
1.12256B.711, subdivision 11, paragraph (g), upon request, to any employee organizations
1.13certified as an exclusive representative of individual providers. The commissioner of
1.14human services shall provide all such lists to the commissioner of mediation services,
1.15upon the request of the commissioner of mediation services."
1.16Page 6, line 33, delete "August" and insert "October"
1.17Page 6, line 35, delete "Representation" and insert "Certification"
1.18Page 7, line 28, after "265B.0915" insert ", 256B.092,"
1.19Page 7, line 31, after "services" insert "in the future"
1.20Page 8, line 2, after "disability" insert "by their employee or the employee of their
1.21representative"
1.22Page 8, line 7, delete "and" and insert "but" and delete "an individual from"
1.23Page 8, line 8, delete "workforce assembled, directed, and controlled by" and
1.24insert "of" and before the period insert ", subject to such agency's direction and control
1.25commensurate with agency employee status"
1.26Page 8, line 17, delete "participants" and insert "a participant or a participant's
1.27representative"
2.1Page 10, line 21, delete "providing such" and insert "affording participants and
2.2participants' representatives within such programs the option of receiving"
2.3Page 10, delete lines 25 to 27 and insert "ability to afford to participants and
2.4participants' representatives within such covered programs who chose not to employ an
2.5individual provider, or are unable to do so, the option of receiving similar services through
2.6the employees of provider agencies rather than through an individual provider."
2.7Page 10, line 32, before the period insert "and section 179A.54, including by
2.8modifying such program operations as necessary to ensure proper classification of
2.9individual providers as such, to require that all relevant vendors within covered programs
2.10assist and cooperate as needed in such efforts, including providers of fiscal support, fiscal
2.11intermediary, financial management, or similar services to provide support to participants
2.12and participants' representatives with regard to employing individual providers, and to
2.13otherwise fulfill the requirements of this section, including paragraph (g)"
2.14Page 11, line 1, after "programs" insert "within three months of hire" and delete
2.15"newly hired"
2.16Page 11, line 2, before "regarding" insert "hired on or after January 1, 2015,"
2.17Page 11, line 4, before "provide" insert "have the authority to"
2.18Page 11, line 8, before "provide" insert "have the authority to"
2.19Page 11, line 27, after the period insert "Except as otherwise provided by law, the
2.20commissioner shall not undertake activities in paragraph (c), clauses (3) and (4), prior to
2.21July 1, 2015, unless included in a negotiated agreement and an appropriation has been
2.22provided by the legislature to the commissioner to perform this work."
2.23Page 11, line 28, delete "this act" and insert "section 179A.54"
2.24Page 11, line 33, delete everything after "entity" and insert "providing relevant
2.25services within covered programs, including providers of fiscal support, fiscal
2.26intermediary, financial management, or similar services to provide support to participants
2.27and participants' representatives with regard to employing"
2.28Page 11, delete line 34
2.29Page 11, line 35, delete "to the employment of"
2.30Page 12, line 1, delete everything after "commissioner's" and insert "obligations"
2.31Page 12, line 2, delete "paragraph" and insert "paragraphs (b) and"
2.32Page 12, line 3, delete "July" and insert "September"
2.33Page 12, line 11, after the period insert "In order to effectuate this section and the
2.34provisions of section 179A.54, questions of employee organization access to other relevant
2.35data on individual providers relating to their employment or prospective employment
2.36within covered programs shall be governed by chapter 179A and section 13.43 and shall
3.1be treated the same as labor organization access to personnel data under section 13.43,
3.2subdivision 6. This shall not include access to private data on participants or participants'
3.3representatives. Nothing in this section or section 179A.54 shall alter the access rights of
3.4other private parties to such data on individual providers."
3.5Page 12, line 14, after "section" insert ", to gather all information that may be needed
3.6for promptly compiling required lists under this section, including information from
3.7current vendors within covered programs, and"
3.8Page 12, after line 15, insert:
3.9"(i) Beginning January 1, 2014, the commissioner of human services shall
3.10specifically require that any such fiscal support, fiscal intermediary, financial management,
3.11or similar entities providing payroll assistance services with respect to individual providers
3.12shall make all needed deductions, on behalf of the state, of dues check off amounts or fair
3.13share fees for the exclusive representative, pursuant to section 179A.06, subdivisions 3
3.14and 6. All contracts with such entities for the provision of such payroll related services
3.15shall include this requirement."