Minnesota HF4282 ensures detained individuals in jails receive prescribed medications.

Minnesota HF4282 amends state statutes to require correctional facilities to provide detained individuals with medications prescribed prior to their confinement. This provision applies unless a licensed health care professional deems the medication medically inappropriate or the individual refuses the medication. The bill defines "licensed health care professional" to include physicians, physician assistants, and advanced practice registered nurses.

Minnesota HF4282 ensures detained individuals in jails receive prescribed medications.

Minnesota HF4282 amends state statutes to require correctional facilities to provide detained individuals with medications prescribed prior to their confinement. This provision applies unless a licensed health care professional deems the medication medically inappropriate or the individual refuses the medication. The bill defines "licensed health care professional" to include physicians, physician assistants, and advanced practice registered nurses.