Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2222

E Relating to family and early childhood education ARTICLE 1 - CHILDREN AND
FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMSIncluding the department of children, families and
learning and child care assistance programs under a certain provision providing
for the sharing of certain welfare data; clarifying programs eligibility for
early childhood programs facilities construction or rehabilitation grants;
modifying certain child care programs provisions; modifying certain definitions
and eliminating or changing certain obsolete references to the aid to families
with dependent children (AFDC) program; requiring the commissioner of children,
families and learning to supervise child care programs administered by and to
provide training and other support services to counties and in cooperation with
the commissioner of human services to enforce the requirements for program
integrity and fraud prevention investigations; authorizing the use of transition
year child care assistance to support employment or job search; modifying
eligibility for the basic sliding fee program and requiring use of unspent funds
in the portability pool for the program; eliminating certain student eligibility
provisions; modifying reserve account requirements and provider choice
provisions; clarifying certain child care fund plan requirements; providing for
employment child care assistance to full time students; clarifying certain
requirements for the recovery of overpayments; eliminating a certain parent fee
reduction restriction; modifying certain child care rate provisions; expanding
funding priorities to programs serving ethnic immigrant and refugee communities;
changing the extended day program to the school age care program and expanding
program requirements; providing for liability insurance coverage for family
services collaboratives; providing for the issuance of final orders under the
fair hearing process and for the production of records in administrative fraud
disqualification hearings; including child care assistance under welfare fraud
provisions, modifying the distribution of recovered funds; expanding required
components of the adolescent parenting grant program to transportation options;
requiring the commissioner of finance in cooperation with the commissioners of
children, families and learning and human services to use certain expenditures
on child care assistance to provide a state match to obtain federal welfare to
work grant money and providing for allocation; requiring the commissioner of
children, families and learning to initiate contracts with businesses and other
organizations to encourage the donation of materials designed to help families
interact with children to develop the skills and abilities necessary to succeed
in reading and in school, to develop a plan for integrating child care and early
childhood education programs and services and to identify potential obstacles to
the consolidation of the Minnesota family investment program, transition year
and basic sliding fee child care programs into one child care assistance program
and to study ways to achieve consolidation during the -2003 biennium;
transferring the powers and duties of the department of children, families and
learning relating to drug policy and violence prevention to the department of
public safety; specifying certain term change or replacement instructions to the
revisor of statutes; appropriating money to the department of children, families
and learning for school readiness program revenue, for early childhood family
education (ECFE) and health and developmental screening aids, for way to grow
and head start programs, for school age care aid, for basic sliding fee and MFIP
child care assistance and for child care development grants; providing for the
transfer of certain money from the federal TANF fund to the child care and
development fund for basic sliding fee child care assistance and child care
development grants; repealing certain obsolete provisions and the Minnesota
early childhood care and education council ARTICLE 2 - COMMUNITY AND SYSTEMS
CHANGEAppropriating money to the department of children, families and learning
for family services collaboratives, for community education and adults with
disabilities program aids and for hearing impaired adults programsARTICLE 3 -
PREVENTION AND INTERVENTIONRequiring commissioner of children, families and
learning grants to nonprofit organizations to fund culturally appropriate
tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse and violence prevention programs for American
Indian youth; appropriating money to the department of children, families and
learning for violence prevention education, after school enrichment, alcohol
impaired driver and family visitation center grants, for abused children
programs and for the children's trust fund ARTICLE 4 - SELF SUFFICIENCY AND
LIFELONG LEARNINGRequiring proceeds from the sale or licensing of software
products or services developed by the department of children, families and
learning or custom developed to be credited to the weatherization program to
support weatherization activities; modifying the formulas for adult basic
education and high school graduation aids; appropriating money to the department
of children, families and learning for Minnesota economic opportunity, emergency
services and family assets program grants, for transitional housing and food
shelf programs, for adult basic and graduation aids, for GED tests and for the
CLEARCorps lead hazard reduction project ARTICLE 5 - RESOURCE AND REFERRAL
PROGRAMSModifying certain provisions governing child care resource and referral
programs; requiring and providing for commissioner of children, families and
learning distribution of funds for resource and referral programs and rules for
the programs and for child care services grants; requiring the commissioner to
designate organizations to administer regional child care resource and referral
programs; specifying certain responsibilities of the programs; clarifying
certain definitions under the child care services grant program and providing
for the distribution of funds for child care resource and referral programs and
for child care services and technical assistance grants; changing child care
regional advisory committees to child care regional proposal review committees
and modifying duties; providing for the awarding of child care services grants
by the committees in lieu of the commissioner and modifying authorized uses and
eligibility; changing child care technical assistance awards to grants and
providing for awarding of the grants by designated child care resource and
referral organizations, modifying authorized uses; modifying certain provisions
relating to the statewide advisory task force; clarifying certain authority of
county boards; specifying certain renumbering instructions to the revisor of
statutes; repealing certain existing provisions relating to regional child care
resource and referral programs, grants for school age child care and child care
resource and referral programs, child care services grant definitions and
distribution and assistance to child care centers and providers(ja)