Hospital construction moratorium exception provision

SF 3587 creates specific exceptions to Minnesota's hospital construction moratorium, which generally prohibits increasing bed capacity or building new hospitals. The bill allows certain projects to proceed, including pediatric bed consolidations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, additions of up to 35 beds in a Rice County psychiatric hospital serving out-of-state patients, and limited bed increases in specific counties (Beltrami, Otter Tail, Carver, Itasca). It directly affects hospitals meeting these narrow criteria, such as those with national referral status or existing approved projects. The key mechanism is listing qualifying projects that bypass the moratorium restrictions, ensuring they can expand or relocate beds without requiring a certificate of need.