Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF2120

Relating to employment

ARTICLE 1 - CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE
CONSOLIDATION

Consolidating the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP)
and basic sliding fee child care programs; eliminating the requirement for
allocation of federal reimbursements to counties for child care services and the
authority of commissioner of human services to certify advances of quarterly
payments and modifying certain requirements for the withholding or reduction of
county funds; modifying a certain provision providing for continued
participation in the child care assistance program upon a family move to another
county, eliminating the portability pool; modifying certain general eligibility
requirements for child care assistance applicants and certain assistance
eligibility date and payment requirements; providing eligibility for certain
persons participating in employment, education or training plans or programs;
requiring and providing for the payment of bonuses to family child care
providers or child care centers providing qualified early care and learning;
authorizing commissioner to
establish additional tiers of child care assistance
reimbursement based on
multiple levels of quality and licensure; providing for
the payment of direct
services delivery administrative costs; requiring the
state obligation for child care assistance program to be included in certain
department of finance revenue and expenditure forecasts; specifying certain
renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes;
repealing certain provisions relating to transition year families and the basic
sliding fee and MFIP child care assistance programs

ARTICLE 2 - WORKING
FAMILY TAX CREDIT

Modifying certain credit requirements for families
qualifying for the working family tax credit; updating certain inflation
adjustment language

ARTICLE 3 - MINIMUM WAGE

Urging the federal government
to raise the minimum wage; authorizing the state of Minnesota to raise the
minimum wage under certain conditions
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