Session Year 2001, Special Session 1

Bill Name: SF0005

Relating to family and early childhood educationARTICLE 1 - CHILDREN AND FAMILY
SUPPORT PROGRAMSModifying the definition of child care provider for child care
programs purposes; providing for development of the child care development fund
plan, requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to present
draft and final plans to the legislature before the deadline for submission of
the plan to the federal government; modifying certain provisions under the at
home infant child care program, increasing the maximum rate of assistance and
eliminating the requirement to treat assistance received as unearned income;
providing for provider payments by the state, requiring compliance with prompt
payment requirements; expanding the responsibility of the commissioner relating
to encouraging child care providers to participate in nationally recognized
accreditation systems to school age care programs; specifying a reserve account
limit for early childhood family education and school readiness revenue,
requiring prior approval of the commissioner to exceed the limit; modifying the
school readiness aid formula; delaying the date for annual state interagency
coordinating council recommendations to the governor and the commissioners of
children, families and learning, health, human services, commerce and economic
security on policies for a comprehensive and coordinated interagency early
childhood intervention system and extending the expiration date of the council;
requiring the commissioner to establish a temporary interagency committee to
coordinate state services for children with autism, specifying certain
membership representation and plan development requirements; appropriating money
to the department of children, families and learning for school readiness
programs revenue, for ECFE and health and developmental screening aids, for way
to grow grants, for head start programs, for school age care aid, for child care
basic sliding fee assistance, for child care assistance under the Minnesota
family investment program, for child care program integrity and fraud prevention
and for child care development grants; appropriating child support collection
payments to the department for child care assistance and transferring federal
TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) funds to the child care and
development fund for basic sliding fee and MFIP child care assistanceARTICLE 2 -
PREVENTIONAuthorizing the commissioner of children, families and learning to
disburse children's trust fund for the prevention of child abuse money for child
abuse prevention programs and authorizing the transfer of state funds
appropriated for child maltreatment prevention grants to the trust fund special
revenue account; requiring the commissioner to develop a plan to disburse money
from the trust fund and appropriating money from the fund for operational costs;
requiring the commissioner to develop teen pregnancy prevention programs;
expanding abused children programs grants to programs providing neglect
intervention services; establishing the child abuse and neglect prevention and
intervention council to advise the commissioner on the implementation and
continued operations of child abuse programs, specifying membership requirements
and responsibilities; authorizing school districts operating community education
programs to establish youth after school enrichment programs, specifying goals;
requiring school districts offering community education programs to annually
report certain costs to the commissioner; creating a formula for youth after
school enrichment revenue and increasing the community education levy for
districts operating the programs; appropriating money to the department of
children, families and learning for family services collaboratives, for
community education and adults with disabilities program aids, for hearing
impaired adults and abused children programs, for the children's trust fund, for
violence prevention education, after school enrichment and chemical abuse
prevention grants, for family visitation centers, appropriating money for a
grant to St. Louis Park for the Meadowbrook collaborative housing project;
specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the
revisor of statutes; repealing certain provisions providing for the disbursement
of funds for child abuse prevention and the advisory council, the male
responsibility and fathering grant program and the educational program for
pregnant minors and minor parents ARTICLE 3 - SELF SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG
LEARNINGAuthorizing the department of corrections to receive adult basic
education program aid; providing for ABE supplemental services grants as a state
total adult basic education aid set aside and reducing the proportion
requirement, requiring a certain percentage of the state total adult basic
education aid to be set aside for the grants; modifying the adult basic
education program revenue formula; appropriating money to the department of
children, families and learning for Minnesota economic opportunity grants, for
transitional housing programs, for emergency services, for adult basic education
and graduation aids, for ABE audits, for payment of certain GED test costs, for
foodshelf programs, for family assets for independence and for lead abatement;
appropriating federal temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) block grant
funds to the commissioner for intensive English as a second language (ESL) for
eligible Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) participants and for
transitional housing programs reimbursement grants; specifying certain reference
replacement instructions to the revisor of statutes ARTICLE 4 -
LIBRARIESExtending the expiration date of the Minnesota library for the blind
and physically handicapped advisory committee; providing for regional library
telecommunications aid, specifying eligibility and application requirements and
providing for the awarding of funds by the commissioner of children, families
and learning, sunset provision; requiring the commissioner to include in
recommendations for a permanent method of funding telecommunications access for
schools a permanent method to fund telecommunications access as part of the
basic support grants for public libraries; appropriating money to the department
of children, families and learning for regional library basic system support
grants, for multicounty multitype library systems and for regional library
telecommunications aid; repealing the regional library telecommunications access
grant program and certain obsolete state library rules(ra)