The Brief Minnesota’s new law now allows "Grandparents Happy Hours" in assisted living and nursing homes. A Champlin woman’s determination has helped bring legal happy hours to Minnesota’s assisted living and nursing homes for the first time. Chesness shared that while happy hours have happened before, they were not quite the same. "We've had our happy hours, but I have to furnish my own." Lebrun said she is usually quiet and stays in the background, but the new Happy Hour law has made her a social butterfly.