SF 4516

03/04/26  REVISOR  DTT/CH  26-07176        as introduced
  SENATE
  STATE OF MINNESOTA
  NINETY-FOURTH SESSION  S.F. No. 4516
  (SENATE AUTHORS: MAYE QUADE, McEwen and Abeler)
  DATE       D-PG  OFFICIAL STATUS
  03/17/2026      6748 Introduction and first reading
  Referred to Human Services
1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to human services; requiring wage remediation following delayed federal
1.3approval of retroactive rate increases.
1.4    BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.5Section 1. INDIVIDUAL PROVIDER WAGE REMEDIATION REQUIRED.
1.6For provisions of the most recent collective bargaining agreement between SEIU
1.7    Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa and the state of Minnesota that were not implemented on
1.8    January 1, 2026, due to the lack of federal approval of the associated state plan amendments,
1.9    if the federal approval includes a retroactive rate increase, the provisions of the most recent
1.10   collective bargaining agreement are effective retroactively from the same date as the
1.11   retroactive rate increase. The commissioner of human services must issue instructions to
1.12   ensure that wage remediation occurs for all individual providers covered by the collective
1.13   bargaining agreement as soon as possible following federal approval and all individual
1.14   providers covered by the collective bargaining agreement receive back pay for the period
1.15   between federal approval and the effective date of the retroactive rate increase.
1.16EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.
Section 1.  1