Day training and habilitation programs that serve people with developmental and other disabilities that are located next to the central operation facility for their program would be exempt from having separate licenses for each facility, under a new law signed May 5.
Sponsored by Rep. Brita Sailer (DFL-Park Rapids) and Sen. Dan Skogen (DFL-Hewitt), the law also exempts satellite day training programs that are part of a central operation but in a separate nonadjacent building and in the same county as the central operation.
Sailer said that licensing each building is just extra paperwork.
Jerry Mueller, executive director for the Minnesota Developmental Achievement Center Association, said his program has a thrift store several blocks down the street, and it costs an additional $200 for licensing. The change would help similar programs save a little money, he said.
The law takes effect Aug. 1, 2008.
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