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House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Tuesday, April 28 2026 - Archive Video
01:01 - Hennepin County Medical Center finances presentation.
28:41 - Shutdown of UCare and outstanding debts presentation.
46:45 - HCMC and UCare shutdown discussion.
1:15:35 - Legislative solutions discussion:.
-- HF4841 (Agbaje) Hennepin County local sales tax authority modified, and grants provided to county health care facilities and to ballpark authority for improvements.
-- HF4892 (Huot) Uncompensated care relief programs established, rulemaking authorized, and money appropriated.
-- HFXXXX (Nadeau) Establishing a medical assistance underpayments pool, modifying the governance of Hennepin Healthcare and the authority and membership of the corporate board; requiring Hennepin Healthcare to make certain information available to the public; authorizing grants to certain hospitals; appropriating money.
Runs 1 hour, 58 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, April 15 2026 - Archive Video
01:10 - HF4401 (Reyer) Medical assistance reimbursement rates for dental services and critical access dental providers modified.
09:23 - HF4466 (Bierman) Health supplemental budget.
Runs 1 hour, 47 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, April 13 2026 - Archive Video
01:28 - HF4712 (Schultz) Use of private residential pools for certified swimming classes authorized.
11:13 - HF4801 (Nadeau) Provisions governing prior authorization of health care services modified, and managed care contracts under medical assistance modified.
35:44 - HF3756 (Backer) Definition for covered insulin provided for the insulin safety net program and manufacturer registration fee.
40:20 - HF4860 (Backer) Operation of remote pickup sites from which patients may obtain drugs and devices dispensed by a managing pharmacy authorized, and rulemaking authorized.
1:08:08 - HF4931 (Backer) Single dental administrator implementation delayed for the medical assistance program.
1:38:39 - HF4460 (Huot) Anesthesiologist assistant licensure established.
1:29:54 - HF4289 (Backer) Parent allowed to request one free certified birth record per child.
Runs 1 hour, 49 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, April 8 2026 - Archive Video
01:10 - HF4609 (Kotyza-Witthuhn) Health plans required to cover infertility treatment and standard fertility preservation services, medical assistance and MinnesotaCare required to cover infertility treatment and standard fertility preservation services, and money appropriated.
1:06:00 - Department of Health presentation: Governor's Supplemental Budget.
1:16:02 - Department of Human Services presentation: Governor's Supplemental Budget.
Runs 1 hour, 44 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, March 25 2026 - Archive Video
01:00 - HF4493 (Baker) Pharmacists authorized to initiate, prescribe, administer, and dispense drugs for the treatment of opioid use disorder; and grounds for disciplinary action for pharmacists and pharmacist interns modified.
19:37 - HF3133 (Franson) Physician and medical resident eligibility for loan forgiveness under the health professional education loan forgiveness program modified.
24:42 - HF4595 (Schomacker) Requirements for licensure by reciprocity for marriage and family therapists modified.
31:17 - HF4143 (Nadeau) Assessment of the hospital surcharge temporarily stopped.
49:18 - HF4142 (Nadeau) Medical assistance coverage of prescription drugs solely for weight loss prohibited.
1:18:06 - HF1724 (Gillman) Direct primary care service agreements established.
1:33:57 - HF4568 (Knudsen) Life-sustaining treatment for unemancipated minor patients provided.
1:50:23 - HF2291 (Mahamoud) Palliative Care Advisory Council funding provided, and money appropriated.
1:56:13 - HF4547 (Bierman) Department of Human Services and Department of Children, Youth, and Families forecasted program adjustments made.
Runs 1 hour, 57 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, March 23 2026 - Archive Video
01:34 - HF4438 (Bierman) Department of Health policy.
13:51 - HF4467 (Bierman) Department of Human Services health care administration.
26:53 - HF4379 (Bierman) Early childhood mental health consultation grants established, protection-related rights for home and community-based services modified, day treatment program requirements modified, intensive rehabilitative mental health services modified, and reports required.
42:31 - HF4349 (Bierman) Provisions governing hospital reimbursement for biological products to treat rare diseases modified.
54:06 - SF3402 (Virnig) Professions that may serve as a medical consultant for a community health board modified.
1:00:36 - HF4064 (Reyer) Commissioner of health directed to study and report on activities to support innovations in cell and gene therapy to treat rare diseases, report required, and money appropriated.
1:19:17 - HF3804 (Huot) Time period natural organic reduction facilities may hold dead human bodies before initiating natural organic reduction extended.
1:23:21 - HF84 (Huot) Requirements modified for reciprocal licensure to practice mortuary science.
1:33:12 - HF85 (Huot) Mortuary science internship requirements modified.
Runs 1 hour, 42 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee - Afternoon Meeting
Wednesday, March 18 2026 - Archive Video
01:33 - HF4048 (Robbins) Gross receipts tax on hospitals and health care providers; licensed chiropractors excluded from the providers subject to the tax.
16:26 - HF3893 (Scott) Use of artificial intelligence in psychotherapy services regulated, and civil penalties provided.
39:17 - Department of Health presentation: 340B Covered Entity Report.
1:01:37 - HF3609 (Zeleznikar) Disallowance of drug manufacturers from restricting delivery of 340B prescription drugs continued, enforcement provided, and expiration date removed.
Runs 1 hour, 44 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee - Evening Meeting
Wednesday, March 18 2026 - Archive Video
00:33 - HF3939 (Bierman) Helping Paws grant funding provided to breed, train, and place service dogs; and money appropriated.
19:47 - HF3769 (Curran) Multiple levels of substance abuse care provided by the commissioner of corrections clarified in law, access to mental health unit beds for incarcerated persons expanded, and mandatory tuberculosis screening in correctional facilities clarified.
29:12 - HF3978 (Reyer) Protections provided to participants in and employees and operators of a health care provider wellness program.
38:37 - HF3476 (Liebling) Patient-Centered Care program established, direct state payments to health care providers authorized, contracting with administrative services organizations authorized, conforming changes made, and money appropriated.
Runs 1 hour, 45 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, March 11 2026 - Archive Video
02:23 - HF3521 (Backer) Exception to the hospital construction moratorium provided.
05:20 - HF3563 (Anderson, P.E.) Licensing boards required to take action against a license or application when a licensee or applicant is convicted of certain theft or fraud offenses.
18:06 - HF82 (Huot) Athletic trainer scope of practice clarified.
43:41 - HF2689 (Reyer) Physical therapy practice governing provisions modified, and criminal penalties provided.
1:08:28 - HF1794 (Virnig) Advanced practice registered nurse postgraduate collaborative practice requirements removed.
1:32:24 - HF3544 (Repinski) Certain veterans or former members of the armed forces who have forfeited federal benefits made ineligible for state-funded benefits, services, or programs; and environmental hazards information and assistance program for veterans discontinued.
1:40:34 - HF3516 (Schomacker) Dentistry profession licensure, registration, scope of practice, continuing education, and disciplinary grounds modified; and fees established.
Runs 1 hour, 44 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, March 9 2026 - Archive Video
01:09 - HF3454 (Hanson) Requirements for the use of social work titles modified.
41:25 - HF3917 (Mahamoud) Medication repository program procedures modified.
54:49 - HF2906 (Smith) Psilocybin therapeutic use program established; protections for registered patients, designated cultivators, registered facilitators, and health care practitioners established; rulemaking authorized; civil actions authorized; fees established; advisory council established; and money appropriated.
1:45:48 - HF3832 (Zeleznikar) Definition of compounding of a drug amended to exempt the use of a flavoring agent.
Runs 1 hour, 54 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, March 4 2026 - Archive Video
02:54 - National Conference of State Legislatures presentation: Federal H.R.
1 conformity.
33:10 - HF3439 (Nadeau) Eligibility for medical assistance and expedited disability determinations modified, review of death master file required, and contract requirements for managed care plans provided.
1:13:20 - HF3763 (Nadeau) Community engagement requirements for the medical assistance program established.
Runs 1 hour, 45 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, March 2 2026 - Archive Video
00:51 - HF3668 (Bierman) Office of gun violence prevention established in the Department of Health, report required, and money appropriated.
1:03:35 - Private Equity presentation.
1:20:00 - HF2779 (Reyer) Health care entities required to report information on ownership or control to the commissioner of health, annual public reports required, enforcement provided, penalties authorized, and money appropriated.
Runs 1 hour, 46 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee - part 1
Wednesday, February 25 2026 - Archive Video
02:00 - HF3521 (Backer) Exception to the hospital construction moratorium provided.
22:07 - HF1807 (Gillman) Nonopioid drugs coverage required for treatment or management of pain.
45:29 - HF1270 (Gillman) Licensing for practice of acupuncture and herbal medicine modified.
The committee recessed.
Runs 1 hour, 12 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee - part 2
Wednesday, February 25 2026 - Archive Video
00:25 - HF2070 (Dippel) Provisions for the cost of health records changed.
Runs 36 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, February 23 2026 - Archive Video
01:26 - HF362 (Pinto) Licensure for massage therapy and Asian bodywork therapy established, fees established, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.
1:06:57 - HF2590 (Norris) Clinical art therapist licensure established, Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy membership modified, fees and civil penalties imposed, and money appropriated.
1:17:39 - HF2760 (Mahamoud) Reimbursement procedures for federally qualified health centers modified.
1:30:18 - HF3444 (Mahamoud) Use of prior authorization and step therapy for drugs used in the treatment of opioid use disorder under medical assistance prohibited.
1:44:23 - Further consideration of HF362 (Pinto) Licensure for massage therapy and Asian bodywork therapy established, fees established, criminal penalties provided, and money appropriated.
Runs 1 hour, 47 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, February 18 2026 - Archive Video
04:55 - Rural Health Transformation Program presentation.
-- Department of Health.
1:08:14 - HF1925 (Schomacker) Nurse Licensure Compact created, and money appropriated.
Runs 1 hour, 49 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, May 7 2025 - Archive Video
00:15 - HF2435 (Bierman) Health finance bill.
Runs 1 hour, 53 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Thursday, April 10 2025 - Archive Video
01:02 - HF2435 (Bierman) Health finance bill.
Runs 7 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, April 7 2025 - Archive Video
00:55 - HF2779 (Reyer) Health care entities required to report information on ownership or control to the commissioner of health, annual public reports required, enforcement provided, penalties authorized, and money appropriated.
20:12 - HF1645 (Reyer) Health care worker well-being grant program funding provided, and money appropriated.
44:59 - HF1885 (Pérez-Vega) Beautywell Project funding provided, and money appropriated.
1:02:40 - HF1289 (Stephenson) Social media platforms required to post a mental health warning label and timer notifications.
1:11:21 - HF1534 (Keeler) Healthy eating, here at home program transferred to the Department of Health; fresh bucks pilot program established; report required; and money appropriated.
1:18:42 - HF2707 (Keeler) Sexually exploited youth safe harbor shelter and housing funding provided, and money appropriated.
1:27:39 - HF1675 (Pursell) Individual pricing of phototherapy lights required, and technical changes made.
1:36:27 - HF3046 (Baker) Special event food stands exempted from the requirement to pay the statewide hospitality fee.
Runs 1 hour, 46 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee - part 1
Wednesday, April 2 2025 - Archive Video
01:03 - HF2769 (Dotseth) Requirements for green burials established, and amount of proceeds dedicated to permanent care and improvement funds modified.
09:30 - HF2489 (Virnig) Epinephrine access in schools requirements modified.
21:24 - HF1935 (Backer) Reimbursement rates for long-term ambulatory electrocardiogram monitoring services provided by diagnostic testing facilities raised.
21:24 - HF2604 (Backer) Medical assistance capitation payment withhold related to verification of coverage established.
39:05 - HF2955 (Backer) County-administered rural medical assistance program established; payment, coverage, and eligibility requirements for the CARMA program established; and commissioner of human services directed to seek federal waivers.
51:50 - HF2909 (Bahner) Coverage and payment for certain pharmacy services modified.
1:01:50 - HF2242 (Nadeau) Commissioner of human services required to select a state pharmacy benefit manager through procurement, commissioner required to enter into a master contract with the state pharmacy benefit manager, program authority and eligibility requirements specified, and report required.
1:27:24 - HF1883 (Gillman) Central service technician requirements established.
1:36:02 - HF2435 (Bierman) Department of Health, health care, pharmacy services, background studies, Department of Human Services program integrity, health-related licensing boards, and certain fee provisions modified; forecast adjustments made; and money appropriated.
The committee recessed.
Runs 1 hour, 47 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee - part 2
Wednesday, April 2 2025 - Archive Video
00:17 - HF1934 (Reyer) Requirements for dental administrator rates modified in the medical assistance and MinnesotaCare programs, dental administrator contract dates changed, critical access dental provider task force established, and report required.
19:33 - HF2464 (Backer) Environmental laboratories accreditation provisions modified.
Runs 57 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, March 26 2025 - Archive Video
01:31 - HF1011 (Bierman) Optometrists prescribing and administering drugs limitations modified.
57:56 - HF1010 (Agbaje) Health occupation definitions amended to include licensed certified midwife, licensure established for certified midwives, civil and criminal penalties established, and medical assistance coverage expanded to licensed certified midwife services.
1:22:06 - HF1913 (Mahamoud) Licensing requirements amended for graduates of foreign medical schools, commissioner of health authorized to remedy violations by employers of limited license holders, employers of limited license holders required to carry medical malpractice insurance, and limited license holders required to provide periodic certification to the medical board.
1:35:27 - HF862 (Schomacker) Public postsecondary institutions required to maintain a supply of opiate antagonists on system campuses.
Runs 1 hour, 45 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, March 24 2025 - Archive Video
02:18 - HF2371 (Robbins) Informed consent for sensitive examinations performed on an anesthetized or unconscious patient required, and criminal penalty provided.
23:38 - HF2147 (Schultz) Requirements for use of hot water pools on certain rental properties established.
41:30 - HF2557 (Nadeau) Hospital surcharge redirected to health care access fund.
46:25 - HF1165 (Bahner) Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority restructured and renamed to Minnesota Health and Education Facilities Authority, authority to construct and finance health care facilities authorized, and bonding capacity increased.
58:54 - HF2482 (Bierman) Health care utilization review provisions and prior authorization clinical criteria applicability modified.
1:04:41 - HF2466 (Backer) Provider taxes contingent reduction provisions modified.
1:06:16 - HF2465 (Backer) Commissioner of health governing fees provision modified.
Runs 1 hour, 7 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, March 19 2025 - Archive Video
00:48 - HF1878 (Keeler) Traditional health care practices covered under medical assistance.
12:51 - HF1652 (Elkins) Health; formulary changes prohibited during the plan year.
52:05 - HF1075 (Elkins) Pharmacy benefit managers and health carriers required to use prescription drug rebates and other compensation to benefit covered persons, and report required.
1:17:28 - HF1103 (Hemmingsen-Jaeger) Medication repository program procedures modified, and money appropriated.
1:34:09 - HF2007 (Nadeau) Spoken language health care interpreter work group established, reports required, and money appropriated.
Runs 1 hour, 49 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, March 17 2025 - Archive Video
01:53 - HF1903 (Novotny) Safe Place for Newborns provisions modified.
13:24 - HF499 (Zeleznikar) Nurse temporary permits extended from 60 to 90 days.
36:49 - HF794 (Nadeau) Dementia services program established, and money appropriated.
47:02 - HF837 (O’Driscoll) Commissioner of commerce required to request the continuation of a state innovation waiver, and money transferred from the general fund to the premium security plan account.
Runs 1 hour, 43 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, March 12 2025 - Archive Video
01:38 - HF1029 (Torkelson) Heritable or congenital disorder revision of lists of tests required to be administered for determination of presence.
13:49 - HF1912 (Skraba) Hospital swing bed license conditions modified.
26:46 - HF1105 (Agbaje) Maternal death study requirements clarified.
36:19 - HF1100 (Bahner) Commissioner of human services required to establish a directed pharmacy dispensing payment to improve and maintain access to pharmaceutical services, and money appropriated.
1:07:53 - HF2057 (Nadeau) Assessment on hospitals imposed, directed payments to hospitals in the medical assistance program required, and reports required.
Runs 1 hour, 43 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, March 10 2025 - Archive Video
01:31 - HF696 (Backer) Rural EMS uncompensated care pool payment program established, and money appropriated.
24:19 - Opioids and Substance Use Disorder presentation.
1:07:03 - HF1379 (Baker) Use of nonopioid directives authorized, and immunity for certain acts or failures to act established.
1:27:19 - HF1429 (Liebling) Emergency medical services overdose data modified.
Runs 1 hour, 42 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, March 5 2025 - Archive Video
01:30 - HF1501 (Murphy) Minnesota Rare Disease Advisory Council funding provided, and money appropriated.
14:32 - HF22 (Gillman) Parent's bill of rights created.
1:28:57 - HF89 (Bahner) Physician assistant collaborative agreement requirements modified.
Runs 1 hour, 34 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, March 3 2025 - Archive Video
00:54 - Health-related licensing boards updates and budget presentations.
Runs 1 hour, 42 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, February 26 2025 - Archive Video
00:44 - HF129 (Repinski) Director of child sex trafficking prevention required to submit a program evaluation each odd-numbered year to the legislature.
06:52 - HF958 (Nadeau) Medical assistance coverage of psychiatric Collaborative Care Model provided.
41:44 - HF953 (West) Hospitals and birth centers required to educate parents on recognizing physical abuse in infants.
1:06:12 - HF981 (Bierman) Opioid prevention and education funding provided, and money appropriated.
Runs 1 hour, 45 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, February 24 2025 - Archive Video
00:58 - Update from Office of Emergency Medical Services.
18:47 - HF337 (Zeleznikar) Ambulance operating deficit grant program established, account established, and reports required.
41:02 - HF36 (Huot) Payment rates for nonemergency medical transportation increased.
48:24 - HF93 (Backer) Ambulance service training and staffing grant program established, and money appropriated.
1:06:59 - HF94 (Backer) Reimbursement requirements for ambulance attendant education costs modified, and money appropriated.
1:15:32 - HF715 (Backer) Ambulance services medical assistance payment rates increase provided.
Runs 1 hour, 27 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, February 17 2025 - Archive Video
00:46 - HF10 (Schultz) State-funded services prohibited to undocumented noncitizens, and undocumented noncitizens made ineligible for MinnesotaCare and the North Star Promise scholarship program.
1:08:22 - HF27 (Backer) State agency authority to submit a public option waiver application to the federal government repealed, and appropriation reduced.
Runs 1 hour, 40 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Wednesday, February 12 2025 - Archive Video
06:16 - HF25 (Zeleznikar) Program established to provide grants to women's pregnancy centers and maternity homes, appropriations reduced, and money appropriated.
1:04:20 - HF24 (Knudsen) Born alive infant provisions modified.
Runs 1 hour, 45 minutes.
House Health Finance and Policy Committee
Monday, February 10 2025 - Archive Video
01:14 - Introductions.
05:13 - Department of Health budget proposal.
57:24 - Department of Human Services budget proposal.
Runs 1 hour, 45 minutes.