Membership.

The commissioner of health shall appoint eight persons to a home care and assisted living program advisory council consisting of the following:

(1) three public members as defined in section 214.02 who shall be deleted text begin either deleted text end persons who are currently receiving home care services deleted text begin or deleted text end new text begin , persons who have received home care services within five years of the application date, new text end new text begin persons who new text end have family members receiving home care services, or persons who have family members who have received home care services within five years of the application date;

(2) three Minnesota home care licensees representing basic and comprehensive levels of licensure who may be a managerial official, an administrator, a supervising registered nurse, or an unlicensed personnel performing home care tasks;

(3) one member representing the Minnesota Board of Nursing; and

(4) one member representing the new text begin Office of new text end Ombudsman for Long-Term Care.