Committee lays over bill to codify Integrated Community Supports, require DHS reporting and impose 2‑year moratorium on new setting applications

Senate File 813, as amended, would direct the Minnesota Department of Human Services to draft statutory language codifying the Integrated Community Supports (ICS) program, require quarterly public reporting on setting utilization and licensing review timelines, ask DHS to propose a temporary or provisional approval process, and impose a two‑year moratorium on new ICS setting applications to allow the department to work through a backlog.

Supporters said the bill is intended to add transparency and predictability to a program that was created through federal waiver amendments rather than state statute. Zania Harout, board president of the Residential Providers Association of Minnesota (RPMN), told the committee that RPMN represents roughly 200 small residential providers, many BIPOC‑owned, who serve people with disabilities accessing Medicaid services through the CADI and…