Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: HF1467

hf1467LAWS 1999 - CHAPTER 205FIFTH ENGROSSMENTEarly childhood and family
education, ECFE, children and family support programs provided, and money
appropriated.ARTICLE 1 - CHILDREN AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMSSection 1: welfare
data use and access provisions modified to include the department of children,
families, and learning. Sec. 2: demonstration family service centers housing
multiagency collaboratives removed from programs eligible for early childhood
learning and child protection facilities grants. Sec. 3: child care fund
applicant definition modified. Sec. 4-10: application, family, income, MFIP,
provider, transition year families, and child care fund definitions modified
relating to child care programs. Sec. 11: child care services federal fund
reference clarified. Sec. 12: supervision of county child care programs
required, training and support services provided, and rulemaking prescribed.
Sec. 13: universal child care assistance application form provided. Sec. 14:
program integrity and fraud prevention investigation requirements imposed. Sec.
15: child care fund plan allocation county notification provisions modified.
Sec. 16: county child care assistance waiting list provisions modified, and
update and review provided. Sec. 17: basic sliding fee child care assistance
eligibility provisions modified to include work first recipients. Sec. 18: basic
sliding fee child care assistance priority given to certain non-MFIP families.
Sec. 19: basic sliding fee state and federal fund allocation formula modified to
include allocations for each county's waiting list. Sec. 20: basic sliding fee
child care assistance fund portability provision modified. Sec. 21: commissioner
of children, families, and learning administration authority federal law
reference modified. Sec. 22: MFIP child care assistance family eligibility
provisions modified. Sec. 23: commissioner reference clarified. Sec. 24: at-home
infant child care program establishment, eligibility, and assistance provisions
modified. Sec. 25: basic sliding fee program fund use provision modified to
reflect MFIP recipients. Sec. 26: special revenue account for child care
established. Sec. 27: child care fund plan provisions modified. Sec. 28: general
eligibility requirements for child care assistance modified. Sec. 29: county
priority system for assistance allocations clarified. Sec. 30: AFDC references
replaced with MFIP relating to child care assistance eligibility. Sec. 31:
Full-time students working part-time eligible for continued child care
assistance for employment. Sec. 32: County recovery of child care assistance
overpayments provided. Sec. 33: sliding fee scale parent fee formula modified.
Sec. 34: child care rates provisions modified. Sec. 35: MFIP assistance
applicants and recipients informed of training and employment opportunities and
programs. Sec. 36: county administrative expenses provided for MFIP child care
program. Sec. 37: child development education and training loan repayment
obligation extended. Sec. 38: commissioners duties modified relating to child
care assistance. Sec. 39: child care improvement grant recipient s required to
establish a fund to provide business planning assistance for child care
providers. Sec. 40: school district developmental screening aid increased. Sec.
41: school districts required to establish a reasonable sliding fee scale for
ECFE programs. Sec. 42: school district early childhood family education funding
extended and increased. Sec. 43: early childhood family education revenue levy
limit increased. Sec. 44: school boards authorized to allow outside entities to
offer school-age care programs replacing extended-day programs, facility use and
access provided, and program coordination encouraged. Sec. 45: school-age care
revenue provided replacing extended-day revenue, and levy authorized. Sec. 46:
single collaborative designated to act as lead in obtaining liability insurance
for participating family services and community-based collaboratives. Sec. 47:
special education increased early intervention costs to county boards paid for
with early intervention service dollars. Sec. 48: human services commissioner
cooperation with the commissioner of children, families, and learning provided
to enforce program integrity and fraud prevention for child care assistance.
Sec. 49: administrative and judicial review of human service matters final order
provided. Sec. 50: commissioner of children, families, and learning authorized
to initiate review of county actions, and subpoena provisions modified to
include production of records. Sec. 51: judicial review provided for parties
aggrieved by commissioner's orders. Sec. 52: local agencies required to initiate
administrative fraud hearings for violations relating to MFIP and child care
assistance programs. Sec. 53: child care support collections deposited in the
child support collection account and appropriated for child care assistance.
Sec. 54: wrongfully obtaining assistance under the MFIP or child care assistance
programs defined as theft. Sec. 55: recovered fund distribution provided. Sec.
56: families wrongfully obtaining child care assistance disqualified from child
care assistance programs. Sec. 57: application or redetermination form for
public assistance required to include authorization for release of information
involved in fraud prevention investigation. Sec. 58: fraud prevention
investigation reimbursement provided for MFIP and child care assistance
programs. Sec. 59: municipality definition expanded to include local
collaboratives relating to tort liability. Sec. 60: adolescent parenting program
requirements expanded to include transportation options. Sec. 61: commissioner
required to develop a plan for integration of child care and early childhood
education programs and services, and reports to legislature required. Sec. 62:
pre-tax child care accounts increased and employer incentives provided. Sec. 63:
parent fee schedule modified. Sec. 64: cooperative effort to provided childhood
learning materials initiated. Sec. 65: additional early childhood family
education aid provided compliant school districts. Sec. 66: commissioner to
develop a plan for consolidation of child care and early childhood education
programs and services, and reports to legislature required. Sec. 67: available
state funds used as match for welfare-to-work grant money. Sec. 68: powers and
duties of department of children, families, and learning over drug policy and
violence prevention transferred to department of public safety. Sec. 69:
prevalence given to certain amendments in this chapter over provisions contained
in SF1585, if enacted. Sec. 70: revisor instruction renaming AFDC child care
program to child care assistance program, and early intervention flow-through
dollars to early intervention service dollars. Sec. 71: department of children,
families, and learning appropriated money for learning readiness program
revenue, early childhood family education aid, health and developmental
screening aid, way to grow programs, head start program, school age care aid,
basic sliding fee child care, MFIP child care, and child care development
grants. Sec. 72: federal TANF funds transferred to the child care and
development fund for basic sliding fee child care, transition year child care
assistance, child care development activities and program integrity costs. Sec.
73: repealer.ARTICLE 2 - COMMUNITY AND SYSTEMS CHANGE Sec. 1: school district
community education levy maximum increased. Sec. 2: education statutory tax rate
adjustments provided and clarified. Sec. 3: education tax equalizing factors
adjustments provided and clarified. Sec. 4: department of children, families,
and learning appropriations provided for family collaboratives, community
education aid, adults with disabilities program aid, hearing-impaired adult
programs, and First Call Minnesota.ARTICLE 3 - PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION Sec.
1: after-school academic, character, and enrichment grant programs established
for Minneapolis and St. Paul neighborhoods and selected other areas,
neighborhood qualification specifications provided, outcomes specified, plans
required, and grant approval provided. Sec. 2: grant recipients required to
demonstrate outcomes, and assist youth to understand that abstinence is the only
completely safe means of sexual protection. Sec. 3: grant applicants required to
detail evaluation methods. Sec. 4: alcohol-impaired driver education account
allocation clarified. Sec. 5: department of children, families, and learning
appropriations provided for violence prevention education grants, abused
children programs, children's trust fund, after-school enrichment grants,
chemical abuse prevention grants, family visitation centers, adolescent
parenting grants and prevention programs for American Indian youth.ARTICLE 4 -
SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNING Sec. 1: proceeds from sale or licensing
of software to support the achieved savings assessment program credited to the
weatherization program. Sec. 2: English as a second language, applied
linguistics, and bilingual education degree holders authorized to teach English
as a second language (ESL). Sec. 3: teacher licensure requirement removed for
teaching English as a second language, subject to degree qualifications. Sec. 4:
adult basic education basic service level required and defined. Sec. 5: adult
basic education program aid formula provided. Sec. 6: basic population aid
provided certain districts. Sec. 7: adult high school graduation aid definition
modified. Sec. 8: family assets for independence initiative eligibility reduced.
Sec. 9: matching contributions for withdrawal of family asset account funds
modified. Sec. 10: report to legislature required on basic service levels and
basic population aid effectiveness. Sec. 11: task force established on improving
the delivery of adult basic education (ABE) services. Sec. 12: department of
children, families, and learning appropriations provided for Minnesota economic
opportunity grants, transitional housing programs, foodshelf programs, adult
basic education aid, adult graduation aid, GED tests, GED on television grant,
family assets for independence Ramsey Action Program grant, and emergency
services. Sec. 13: repealer.ARTICLE 5 - RESOURCE AND REFERRAL PROGRAMS Sec. 1:
technical chapter reference provided. Sec. 2: legal nonlicensed child care
provider definition provided. Sec. 3: distribution of funds for operation of
child care resource and referral programs provided. Sec. 4: organization
designated to administer child care resource and referral program to a region.
Sec. 5: regional child care resource and referral program administration fund
distribution basis provided. Sec. 6-7: child care resource and referral program
requirements provided. Sec. 8: facility improvement expenses definition
modified. Sec. 9: child care program interim financing definition modified. Sec.
10: child care training programs required to be course of study teaching
specific skills to meet licensure requirements. Sec. 11: region defined as
designated by governor. Sec. 12: distribution of grant funds provided. Sec. 13:
basis for distributing grant funds specified. Sec. 14: child care regional
advisory committees changed to child care regional proposal review committees,
and provisions modified. Sec. 15: child care resource and referral programs
authorized to award child care services grants. Sec. 16: eligible grant
recipients defined. Sec. 17: child care services grant match requirements
clarified. Sec. 18: family child care technical assistance grant provisions
modified. Sec. 19: statewide advisory task force on child care issues provisions
modified. Sec. 20: county board authority to provided child care services
clarified and simplified. Sec. 21: revisor instruction to renumber sections and
put definitions in alphabetical order. Sec. 22: repealer.cth