Occupational medicine residency grant program established, and money appropriated.

HF 419 establishes a state grant program to support occupational medicine residency programs in Minnesota. It appropriates funds for the Minnesota Department of Health to award grants to eligible non-profit programs, covering costs like faculty salaries, resident training, recruitment, and facility improvements. The grants specifically target expanding new residency positions (for up to three years) and supporting existing programs, with funds allocated first to new positions and then proportionally to existing ones. This directly affects medical residency programs training doctors in occupational medicine, aiming to address workforce shortages in this specialty. The bill requires programs to submit applications with work plans and budgets, and the Department must track program expansion and residency shortages.