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Read. Follow. Verify.Minnesota House Bill 702 Removes Nursing Facility Property Rate Sunsets and Adjusts Facility Rates
Last action · February 13, 2025: Introduction and first reading, referred to Human Services Finance and PolicySponsors: Greg Davids and 2 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Minnesota House Bill 702 eliminates the May 31, 2026, date for certain nursing facility s while removing a temporary rate increase for a facility in Fergus Falls, effective July 1, 2025. The legislation alters property payment rates under Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 256B.434, subdivision 4k, affecting specified nursing homes in St. Paul, Duluth, Chatfield, and Fergus Falls.
Changes the timeline and amounts for state property rate reimbursements received by specific nursing homes, directly impacting operational funding for those elder-care facilities beginning July 1, 2025.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Nursing facilities in St. Paul, Duluth, and Chatfield
Their scheduled property rate increases on January 1, 2025, are maintained and the expiration date of May 31, 2026, is removed.
Nursing facility in Fergus Falls
Its temporary property rate increase effective from January 1, 2025, through June 30, 2025, is removed by the legislation.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Feb 13, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduction and first reading, referred to Human Services Finance and Policy
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 40)
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