Session fact sheet archive

2022 legislative session fact sheets

• Investment and policy focus on behavioral health care, opioids, foster care, homelessness (PDF) (February 2022)
• Behavioral health: Building capacity to serve people in crisis (PDF) (March 2022)
• Competency restoration: Strengthening mental health care, improving public safety (PDF) (February 2022)
• Budget strengthens critical human services for Minnesotans (PDF) (March 2022)
• Revitalizing Minnesota’s direct support workforce (PDF) (March 2022)
• Stabilizing child care providers, improving families’ access to child care (PDF) (March 2022)
• Improving access to comprehensive, affordable health care coverage (PDF) (March 2022)
• Making health care coverage more accessible and affordable (PDF) (March 2022)
• Minimizing disruption in health care after the federal COVID-19 emergency (PDF) (March 2022)
• Expanding housing services, strengthening efforts to address homelessness (PDF) (March 2022)
• Ensuring better access to food, enhancing Minnesotans’ food security (PDF) (March 2022)
• Expanding access to behavioral health care for children and adults (PDF) (February 2022)
• Strengthening families and reducing the need for out-of-home placements (PDF) (March 2022)
• Stabilizing economic relief for Minnesotans with low incomes (PDF) (March 2022)
• Improving compliance, regulation and human service delivery (PDF) (March 2022)
• Investing in safe, high-quality early learning facilities (PDF) (February 2022)
• Adding space for court-ordered transfers of sex offenders (PDF) (February 2022)
• Improving treatment space in Minnesota’s direct care facilities (PDF) (February 2022)

2021 legislative session fact sheets

• Two-year human services budget invests in Minnesotans (PDF) (July 2021)
• Office of Inspector General summary (PDF) (August 2021)
• Health care: Improving access and affordability (PDF) (July 2021)
• Children and families: Investing in families’ well-being, increasing resources for providers and partners (PDF) (July 2021)
• Behavioral health: Simplifying regulations, improving culturally informed care, expanding services (PDF) (July 2021)
• Older adults and people with disabilities: Major influx of resources to boost programs and services (PDF) (July 2021)

2020 legislative session fact sheets

• Upgrades will improve safety and result in more effective substance abuse treatment on campus in Anoka (PDF) (February 2020)  
• Provide therapeutic recreational space at the new psychiatric hospital for children and teens in Willmar (PDF) (February 2020)  
• Space needed for court-ordered transfers of sex offenders (PDF) (February 2020)  
• Make urgent repairs to treatment facilities that serve thousands of vulnerable Minnesotans each year (PDF) (February 2020)  
• Renewable energy upgrades will improve efficiency, cut costs and reduce emissions at Anoka psychiatric hospital (PDF) (February 2020)  
• Updated security and monitoring systems will improve safety at state-run hospitals and other treatment facilities (PDF) (February 2020)  
• Prepare underutilized campus in Cambridge for potential redevelopment as housing or other appropriate uses (PDF) (February 2020)  
• Safe, quality early learning facilities provide the foundation for young children’s growth, development (PDF) (February 2020)  
• Increased treatment capacity; therapeutic activity space for children; facility repairs; and energy and security upgrades (PDF) (February 2020)  

2019 legislative session fact sheets

• Human Services: Investing in health and well-being (PDF) (June 2019)  
• Two-year budget strengthens Minnesotans’ well-being (PDF) (June 2019)
• Behavioral health: New resources for the opioid crisis, expanding a successful model of care, mental health for kids (PDF) (June 2019)
• Children and families: More cash for families in MFIP, expanded tribal initiative, child welfare improvements (PDF) (June 2019)
• Direct Care and Treatment: Services maintained, options expanded, commitment to most vulnerable reaffirmed (PDF) (June 2019)
• Long-term care services and supports: More pay for direct support workers, streamlining of complex waiver system (PDF) (June 2019)
• Program integrity: Stronger oversight, more focus on fraud (PDF) (June 2019)
• Vulnerable adults: More resources to help consumers; improvements in adult protection, oversight of care (PDF) (June 2019)

2018 legislative session fact sheet

• 2018 Legislative Session Summary (PDF) (July 2018)

2017 legislative session fact sheets

• Overview of changes affecting human services (PDF) (July 2017)
• Direct Care and Treatment: Resources for quality and safety (PDF) (July 2017)
• Independent living: Strengthen core services, choice (PDF) (July 2017)
• Health care: Protect access, but missed opportunities (PDF) (July 2017)
• Children and families: Improve federal compliance, stability (PDF) (July 2017)
• Better government: Improve oversight, challenges ahead (PDF) (July 2017)
• Behavioral health: A continuum of care for all Minnesotans (PDF) (July 2017)

2016 legislative session fact sheets

• Overview of changes affecting human services (PDF) (July 2016)

2015 legislative session fact sheets

• 2016-17 human services budget strengthens mental health and protects kids (PDF) (June 2015)
• Fighting the spread of opioids (PDF) (June 2015)
• Keeping health care accessible and affordable (PDF) (June 2015)
• Promoting innovation in long-term care purchasing and financing (PDF) (June 2015)
• Protecting taxpayers from fraud in public programs (PDF) (June 2015)
• Providing children with a safe place to learn and grow (PDF) (June 2015)
• Strengthening Minnesota's mental health system (PDF) (June 2015)

2014 legislative session fact sheets

• Overview of changes affecting human services (PDF) (June 2014)
• Expanded facilities to bolster early childhood learning (PDF) (June 2014)
• Funds will help improve safety at Minnesota Security Hospital (PDF) (June 2014)
• New background study law will improve protections for vulnerable adults and children (PDF) (June 2014)

2013 legislative session fact sheets

• 2014-15 human services budget reinvests in Minnesotans (PDF) (May 2013)
• 2014-15 biennial budget: human services overview (PDF) (May 2013)
• Continuing improvement of behavioral health services (PDF) (May 2013)
• Rooting out fraud and protecting the most vulnerable (PDF) (May 2013)
• Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation (PDF) (May 2013)
• Safe and healthy development of children (PDF) (May 2013)
• Reform 2020 (PDF) (May 2013)
• Transition to community (PDF) (May 2013)
• Quality promoted across long-term services, supports (PDF) (July 2013)
• Reform 2020: Intensive services for children with autism spectrum disorder (PDF) (July 2013)

2012 legislative session fact sheets

• Overview of changes affecting human services (PDF) (May 2012)
• Minnesota Security Hospital: Renovation and construction planning (PDF) (August 2012)
  

2011 legislative session fact sheets

• Overview of changes affecting human services (PDF) (Aug. 11, 2011)
• Changes for state health care programs (PDF) (Aug. 11, 2011)
• Changes for continuing care programs (PDF) (Aug. 25, 2011)
• Minnesota Sex Offender Program: Shantz Building renovations (PDF) (Aug. 5, 2011)
  

More legislative information, such as supplemental budget background information and legislative reports, is online.