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MN Stat § 145.4241 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4241 — Definitions.

145.4241 DEFINITIONS. Subdivision 1. Applicability. As used in sections 145.4241 to 145.4249, the following terms have the meanings given them. Subd. 2. Abortion. "Abortion" means the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device to intentionally terminate the pregnancy of a female known to be pregnant, with an intention other than to increase the probability of a live birth, to preserve the life or health of the child after live birth, or to remove a dead fetus. Subd. 3. Attempt to perform an abortion. "Attempt to perform an abortion" means an act, or an omission of a statutorily required act, that, under the circumstances as the actor believes them to be, constitutes a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the performance of an abortion in Minnesota in violation of sections 145.4241 to 145.4249. Subd. 3a. Fetal anomaly incompatible with life. "Fetal anomaly incompatible with life" means a fetal anomaly diagnosed before birth that will with reasonable certainty result in death of the unborn child within three months. Fetal anomaly incompatible with life does not include conditions which can be treated. Subd. 4. Medical emergency. "Medical emergency" means any condition that, on the basis of the physician's good faith clinical judgment, so complicates the medical condition of a pregnant female as to necessitate the immediate abortion of her pregnancy to avert her death or for which a delay will create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. Subd. 4a. Perinatal hospice. (a) "Perinatal hospice" means comprehensive support to the female and her family that includes support from the time of diagnosis through the time of birth and death of the infant and through the postpartum period. Supportive care may include maternal-fetal medical specialists, obstetricians, neonatologists, anesthesia specialists, clergy, social workers, and specialty nurses. (b) The availability of perinatal hospice provides an alternative to families for whom elective pregnancy termination is not chosen. Subd. 5. Physician. "Physician" means a person licensed as a physician or osteopathic physician under chapter 147. Subd. 6. Probable gestational age of the unborn child. "Probable gestational age of the unborn child" means what will, in the judgment of the physician, with reasonable probability, be the gestational age of the unborn child at the time the abortion is planned to be performed. Subd. 7. Stable Internet website. "Stable Internet website" means a website that, to the extent reasonably practicable, is safeguarded from having its content altered other than by the commissioner of health. Subd. 8. Unborn child. "Unborn child" means a member of the species Homo sapiens from fertilization until birth. History:  2003 c 14 art 1 s 2; 2006 c 267 art 2 s 1,2; 2016 c 119 s 7
MN Stat § 145.4244 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4244 — Internet Website.

145.4244 INTERNET WEBSITE. The commissioner of health shall develop and maintain a stable Internet website to provide the information described under section 145.4243. No information regarding who uses the website shall be collected or maintained. The commissioner of health shall monitor the website on a weekly basis to prevent and correct tampering. History:   2003 c 14 art 1 s 5
MN Stat § 145.4245 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4245 — Procedure In Case Of Medical Emergency.

145.4245 PROCEDURE IN CASE OF MEDICAL EMERGENCY. When a medical emergency compels the performance of an abortion, the physician shall inform the female, prior to the abortion if possible, of the medical indications supporting the physician's judgment that an abortion is necessary to avert her death or that a 24-hour delay will create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function. History:   2003 c 14 art 1 s 6
MN Stat § 145.4248 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4248 — Severability.

145.4248 SEVERABILITY. If any one or more provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of sections 145.4241 to 145.4249 or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is found to be unconstitutional, the same is hereby declared to be severable and the balance of sections 145.4241 to 145.4249 shall remain effective notwithstanding such unconstitutionality. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed sections 145.4241 to 145.4249, and each provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word be declared unconstitutional. History:   2003 c 14 art 1 s 9
MN Stat § 145.4249 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4249 — Supreme Court Jurisdiction.

145.4249 SUPREME COURT JURISDICTION. The Minnesota Supreme Court has original jurisdiction over an action challenging the constitutionality of sections 145.4241 to 145.4249 and shall expedite the resolution of the action. History:   2003 c 14 art 1 s 10
MN Stat § 145.425 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.425 — Pay Toilets In Public Places; Prohibitions; Penalty.

145.425 PAY TOILETS IN PUBLIC PLACES; PROHIBITIONS; PENALTY. Pay toilets and urinals in public places, public conveyances or public buildings are prohibited. History:  1975 c 215 s 1; 2001 c 205 art 2 s 1
MN Stat § 145.471 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.471 — Prenatal Trisomy Diagnosis Awareness Act.

145.471 PRENATAL TRISOMY DIAGNOSIS AWARENESS ACT. Subdivision 1. Short title. This section shall be known and may be cited as the "Prenatal Trisomy Diagnosis Awareness Act." Subd. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given them: (1) "commissioner" means the commissioner of health; (2) "deliver" means providing information to an expectant parent and, if appropriate, other family members, in a written format; (3) "health care practitioner" means a medical professional that provides prenatal or postnatal care and administers or requests administration of a diagnostic or screening test to a pregnant woman that detects for trisomy conditions; and (4) "trisomy conditions" means trisomy 13, otherwise known as Patau syndrome; trisomy 18, otherwise known as Edwards syndrome; and trisomy 21, otherwise known as Down syndrome. Subd. 3. Health care practitioner duty. A health care practitioner who orders tests for a pregnant woman to screen for trisomy conditions shall provide the information in subdivision 4 to the pregnant woman if the test reveals a positive result for any of the trisomy conditions. Subd. 4. Commissioner duties. (a) The commissioner shall make the following information available to health care practitioners: (1) up-to-date and evidence-based information about the trisomy conditions that has been reviewed by medical experts and national trisomy organizations. The information must be provided in a written or an alternative format and must include the following: (i) expected physical, developmental, educational, and psychosocial outcomes; (ii) life expectancy; (iii) the clinical course description; (iv) expected intellectual and functional development; and (v) treatment options available for the particular syndrome for which the test was positive; and (2) contact information for nonprofit organizations that provide information and support services for trisomy conditions. (b) The commissioner shall post the information in paragraph (a) on the Department of Health website. (c) The commissioner shall follow existing department practice to ensure that the information is culturally and linguistically appropriate for all recipients. (d) Any local or national organization that provides education or services related to trisomy conditions may request that the commissioner include the organization's informational material and contact information on the Department of Health website. Once a request is made, the commissioner may add the information to the website. History:   2015 c 28 s 1
MN Stat § 145.4711 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4711 — Definitions.

145.4711 DEFINITIONS. Subdivision 1. Application. For purposes of sections 145.4711 to 145.4713, the following definitions apply. Subd. 2. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of health. Subd. 3. Emergency care to sexual assault victims. "Emergency care to sexual assault victims" means medical examinations, procedures, and services provided at a hospital to a sexual assault victim following an alleged sexual assault. Subd. 4. Emergency contraception. "Emergency contraception" means a drug, drug regimen, or device approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration to prevent pregnancy when administered after sexual contact, including prescription and over-the-counter hormonal emergency contraception and intrauterine devices. Subd. 5. Sexual assault. "Sexual assault" means criminal sexual conduct in the first degree under section 609.342, criminal sexual conduct in the second degree under section 609.343, criminal sexual conduct in the third degree under section 609.344, criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree under section 609.345, sexual extortion under section 609.3458, or incest under section 609.365. Subd. 6. Sexual assault victim. "Sexual assault victim" means a woman or man who alleges, or is alleged to have been, sexually assaulted and who presents at a hospital as a patient. History:  2007 c 42 s 1; 1Sp2021 c 11 art 4 s 31
MN Stat § 145.4712 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4712 — Emergency Care To Sexual Assault Victims.

145.4712 EMERGENCY CARE TO SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS. Subdivision 1. Emergency care to female sexual assault victims. (a) It shall be the standard of care for all hospitals that provide emergency care to, at a minimum: (1) provide each female sexual assault victim with medically and factually accurate and unbiased written and oral information about emergency contraception from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and distributed to all hospitals by the Department of Health; (2) orally inform each female sexual assault victim of the option of being provided with emergency contraception at the hospital; and (3) immediately provide emergency contraception to each sexual assault victim who requests it provided it is not medically contraindicated and is ordered by a legal prescriber. Emergency contraception shall be administered in accordance with current medical protocols regarding timing and dosage necessary to complete the treatment. (b) A hospital may administer a pregnancy test. If the pregnancy test is positive, the hospital does not have to comply with the provisions in paragraph (a). Subd. 2. Emergency care to male and female sexual assault victims. It shall be the standard of care for all hospitals that provide emergency care to, at a minimum: (1) provide each sexual assault victim with factually accurate and unbiased written and oral medical information about prophylactic antibiotics for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases; (2) orally inform each sexual assault victim of the option of being provided prophylactic antibiotics for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases at the hospital; and (3) immediately provide prophylactic antibiotics for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases to each sexual assault victim who requests it, provided it is not medically contraindicated and is ordered by a legal prescriber. History:   2007 c 42 s 2
MN Stat § 145.4713 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4713 — Complaints.

145.4713 COMPLAINTS. The commissioner shall accept and investigate complaints regarding hospital compliance with section 145.4712. The commissioner shall periodically determine whether hospitals are in compliance with section 145.4712. Failure to comply with section 145.4712 may be grounds for the suspension or revocation of a hospital's license under section 144.55, subdivision 6. History:   2007 c 42 s 3
MN Stat § 145.4715 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4715 — Reporting Prevalence Of Sexual Violence.

145.4715 REPORTING PREVALENCE OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE. The commissioner of health must routinely report to the public and to the legislature data on the prevalence and incidence of sexual violence in Minnesota, to the extent federal funding is available for this purpose. The commissioner must use existing data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or other source as identified by the commissioner. History:   2012 c 247 art 2 s 11
MN Stat § 145.4716 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4716 — Safe Harbor For Sexually Exploited Youth.

145.4716 SAFE HARBOR FOR SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH. Subdivision 1. Director. The commissioner of health shall establish a position for a director of child sex trafficking prevention. Subd. 2. Duties of director. The director of child sex trafficking prevention is responsible for the following: (1) developing and providing comprehensive training on sexual exploitation of youth for social service professionals, medical professionals, public health workers, and criminal justice professionals; (2) collecting, organizing, maintaining, and disseminating information on sexual exploitation and services across the state, including maintaining a list of resources on the Department of Health website; (3) monitoring and applying for federal funding for antitrafficking efforts that may benefit victims in the state; (4) managing grant programs established under sections 145.4716 to 145.4718; 609.3241, paragraph (c), clause (3); and 609.5315, subdivision 5c, clause (3); (5) managing the request for proposals for grants for comprehensive services, including trauma-informed, culturally specific services; (6) identifying best practices in serving sexually exploited youth, as defined in section 260C.007, subdivision 31; (7) providing oversight of and technical support to regional navigators pursuant to section 145.4717; (8) conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the statewide program for safe harbor of sexually exploited youth; and (9) developing a policy consistent with the requirements of chapter 13 for sharing data related to sexually exploited youth, as defined in section 260C.007, subdivision 31, among regional navigators and community-based advocates. Subd. 3. Youth eligible for services. Youth 24 years of age or younger shall be eligible for all services, support, and programs provided under this section and section 145.4717, and all shelter, housing beds, and services provided by the commissioner of human services to sexually exploited youth and youth at risk of sexual exploitation. History:  2013 c 108 art 12 s 43; 2014 c 312 art 23 s 6; 2016 c 189 art 15 s 1,2; 1Sp2017 c 6 art 10 s 96
MN Stat § 145.4717 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4717 — Regional Navigator Grants.

145.4717 REGIONAL NAVIGATOR GRANTS. The commissioner of health, through its director of child sex trafficking prevention established in section 145.4716, shall provide grants to regional navigators serving six regions of the state to be determined by the commissioner. Each regional navigator must develop and annually submit a work plan to the director of child sex trafficking prevention. The work plans must include, but are not limited to, the following information: (1) a needs statement specific to the region, including an examination of the population at risk; (2) regional resources available to sexually exploited youth, as defined in section 260C.007, subdivision 31; (3) grant goals and measurable outcomes; and (4) grant activities including timelines. History:   2013 c 108 art 12 s 44
MN Stat § 145.4718 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.4718 — Program Evaluation.

145.4718 PROGRAM EVALUATION. (a) The director of child sex trafficking prevention established under section 145.4716 must conduct, or contract for, comprehensive evaluation of the statewide program for safe harbor for sexually exploited youth. The first evaluation must be completed by June 30, 2015, and must be submitted to the commissioner of health by September 1, 2015, and every two years thereafter. The evaluation must consider whether the program is reaching intended victims and whether support services are available, accessible, and adequate for sexually exploited youth, as defined in section 260C.007, subdivision 31. (b) In conducting the evaluation, the director of child sex trafficking prevention must consider evaluation of outcomes, including whether the program increases identification of sexually exploited youth, coordination of investigations, access to services and housing available for sexually exploited youth, and improved effectiveness of services. The evaluation must also include examination of the ways in which penalties under section 609.3241 are assessed, collected, and distributed to ensure funding for investigation, prosecution, and victim services to combat sexual exploitation of youth. History:   2013 c 108 art 12 s 45
MN Stat § 145.62 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.62 — Providing Information To Review Organization; Immunity.

145.62 PROVIDING INFORMATION TO REVIEW ORGANIZATION; IMMUNITY. No person, firm, or corporation providing information to a review organization shall be subject to any action for damages or other relief, by reason of having furnished such information, unless such information is false and the person providing such information knew, or had reason to believe, such information was false. History:   1971 c 283 s 2
MN Stat § 145.63 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.63 — Review Organization; Advisory Capacity; Immunity.

145.63 REVIEW ORGANIZATION; ADVISORY CAPACITY; IMMUNITY. Subdivision 1. Members, directors, and officers. No review organization and no person who is a member or employee, director, or officer of, who acts in an advisory capacity to, or who furnishes counsel or services to, a review organization shall be liable for damages or other relief in any action brought by a person or persons whose activities have been or are being scrutinized or reviewed by a review organization, by reason of the performance by the person of any duty, function, or activity of such review organization, unless the performance of such duty, function or activity was motivated by malice toward the person affected thereby. No review organization and no person shall be liable for damages or other relief in any action by reason of the performance of the review organization or person of any duty, function, or activity as a review organization or a member of a review committee or by reason of any recommendation or action of the review committee when the person acts in the reasonable belief that the action or recommendation is warranted by facts known to the person or the review organization after reasonable efforts to ascertain the facts upon which the review organization's action or recommendation is made, except that any corporation designated as a review organization under the Code of Federal Regulations, title 42, section 466 (1983) shall be subject to actions for damages or other relief by reason of any failure of a person, whose care or treatment is required to be scrutinized or reviewed by the review organization, to receive medical care or treatment as a result of a determination by the review organization that medical care was unnecessary or inappropriate. The protections from liability provided in this subdivision shall also apply to the governing body of the review organization and shall not be waived as a result of referral of a matter from the review organization to the governing body or consideration by the governing body of decisions, recommendations, or documentation of the review organization. Subd. 2. Organizations. No state or local association of professionals or organization of professionals from a particular area shall be liable for damages or other relief in any action brought by a person whose activities have been or are being scrutinized or reviewed by a review organization established by the association or organization, unless the association or organization was motivated by malice towards the person affected by the review or scrutiny. History:  1971 c 283 s 3; 1974 c 295 s 3; 1985 c 184 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 152 art 2 s 1; 1989 c 282 art 3 s 31; 1991 c 137 s 4
MN Stat § 145.65 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.65 — Guidelines Not Admissible In Evidence.

145.65 GUIDELINES NOT ADMISSIBLE IN EVIDENCE. No guideline established by a review organization shall be admissible in evidence in any proceeding brought by or against a professional by a person to whom such professional has rendered professional services. History:   1971 c 283 s 5
MN Stat § 145.66 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.66 — Penalty For Violation.

145.66 PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. Any disclosure other than that authorized by section 145.64, of data and information acquired by a review committee or of what transpired at a review meeting, is a misdemeanor. History:   1971 c 283 s 6
MN Stat § 145.67 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.67 — Protection Of Patient.

145.67 PROTECTION OF PATIENT. Nothing contained in sections 145.61 to 145.67 shall be construed to relieve any person of any liability which the person has incurred or may incur to a patient as a result of furnishing health care to such patient. History:  1971 c 283 s 7; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 145.671 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.671 — Pediatric Vaccine Administration.

145.671 PEDIATRIC VACCINE ADMINISTRATION. The commissioner of health shall enroll a licensed pharmacy or individual pharmacist as a program-registered provider in the pediatric vaccine administration program under section 13631 of the federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Public Law 103-66, based on the program's infrastructure capacity to enroll the additional pharmacy providers in the program. History:  2009 c 157 art 1 s 1; 2012 c 187 s 74
MN Stat § 145.672 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 144 - 159 — Health|Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions|Section 145.672 — Healthy Children Through Immunization.

145.672 HEALTHY CHILDREN THROUGH IMMUNIZATION. Pharmacies and pharmacists providing immunizations to children under private insurance or fee-for-service arrangements prior to June 1, 2009, that are not enrolled in the pediatric vaccine administration program under section 13631 of the federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Public Law 103-66, must discontinue immunization services to children under private insurance or fee-for-service arrangements after December 31, 2009. History:  2009 c 157 art 1 s 2; 2012 c 187 s 74