Bills affecting your community in Minnesota — 2026 session

Human services; various provisions modified relating to Direct Care and Treatment, the Department of Health, health care, medical assistance provider enrollment, aging and disability services, behavioral health, homelessness, housing, and maltreatment of vulnerable adults; housing stabilization supports provisions removed; rulemaking required; release of initial Optum reports required; Optum prohibited from disseminating private data; reports required; and money appropriated.

Long-term care, life, and disability insurers prohibited from using genetic information for certain purposes.

Senior citizens and disabled persons recovery from insurers under a disability or long-term care policy authorization

Long-term care, life, and disability insurers usage of genetic information for certain purposes prohibition provision

Grant programs established for various purposes related to children's mental health, provisions governing long-term care consultation services modified, children's mental health service rates modified, psychiatric residential treatment facility working group established, reports required, and money appropriated.

Undocumented noncitizens made ineligible for state financial aid programs.

Senior citizens and disabled persons allowed to recover from insurers under a disability or long-term care policy.

Onetime emergency rental assistance aid for counties and Tribal governments establishment and appropriation

Rights and protections for residents of certain long-term care settings modified, rights and protections for clients receiving home care services and clients receiving home and community-based services modified, arbitration provisions prohibited, notices required, civil actions authorized, and money appropriated.

Immigration law enforcement noncooperation ordinances and policies prohibited, use of immigration-related data provided, and county attorneys required to notify federal immigration authorities when an undocumented person is arrested for a crime of violence.

Minor league baseball players exempted from minimum wage and overtime requirements.

Human services provisions modified on aging and disability services, behavioral health, licensing and program integrity, mental health licensing, background studies, and forecasted program appropriations adjustments; reports required; and money appropriated.

Minor League baseball players exemption from minimum wage and overtime requirements provision

Various retirement statutes modifications to include references to the local government probation and telecommunicator retirement plan

Local government probation and telecommunicator retirement plan establishment

Minnesota State Retirement System probation and telecommunicator retirement subplan establishment

Minimum wage for certain state interns mandated.

Onetime emergency rental assistance aid for counties and Tribal governments establishment

State-funded payments to undocumented noncitizens prohibited, and undocumented noncitizens provided to be ineligible for MinnesotaCare and North Star Promise scholarship program.

Community first services and supports reimbursement rates modified, consumer-direct community supports budgets increased, Minnesota Caregiver Defined Contribution Retirement Fund Trust established, and money appropriated.