2005 Minnesota Statutes - 144A.611 — Reimbursable expenses payable to nursing assistants.

     144A.611 Reimbursable expenses payable to nursing 
  assistants. 


    Subdivision 1.    Nursing homes and certified boarding 
 care homes.  The actual costs of tuition and reasonable 
 expenses for the competency evaluation or the nursing assistant 
 training program and competency evaluation approved under 
 section 144A.61, which are paid to nursing assistants pursuant 
 to subdivision 2, are a reimbursable expense for nursing homes 
 and certified boarding care homes under the provisions of 
 chapter 256B and the rules promulgated thereunder. 


    Subd. 2.    Nursing assistants.  A nursing assistant who 
 has completed an approved competency evaluation or an approved 
 training program and competency evaluation shall be reimbursed 
 by the nursing home or certified boarding care home for actual 
 costs of tuition and reasonable expenses for the competency 
 evaluation or the training program and competency evaluation 90 
 days after the date of employment, or upon completion of the 
 approved training program, whichever is later. 


    Subd. 3.    Rules.  The commissioner of human services 
 shall promulgate any rules necessary to implement the provisions 
 of this section.  The rules shall include, but not be limited to:


    (a) Provisions designed to prevent reimbursement by the 
 commissioner under this section and section 144A.61 to a nursing 
 home, certified boarding care home, or nursing assistant for the 
 assistant's simultaneous training in more than one approved 
 program; 


    (b) Provisions designed to prevent reimbursement by the 
 commissioner under this section and section 144A.61 to more than 
 one nursing home or certified boarding care home for the 
 training of any individual nursing assistant; and 


    (c) Provisions permitting the reimbursement by the 
 commissioner to nursing homes, certified boarding care homes, 
 and nursing assistants for the retraining of a nursing assistant 
 after an absence from the labor market of not less than 24 
 months. 


    HIST: 1976 c 310 s 2; 1977 c 326 s 9; 1984 c 654 art 5 s 58; 
 1986 c 444; 1989 c 282 art 3 s 29; 1991 c 286 s 15,16