Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3341

Modifying certain provisions under the Minnesota family investment program;
providing for the distribution of child support and maintenance received by the
state as a pass through to certain individuals; including the support and
maintenance in the definition of income for child care programs eligibility
purposes; expanding the required uses of temporary assistance for needy families
block grant money under MFIP to welfare to work transportation and
reimbursements for the federal share of child support collections passed through
to custodial parents; requiring the commissioner of human services to annually
treat financial assistance expenditures made to or on behalf of certain minor
children as expenditures under a separately funded state program and report the
expenditures to the federal department of health and human services as separate
state program expenditures; providing for the claiming of the pass through of
child support as maintenance of effort for the TANF grant; expanding the
definition of unearned income under MFIP to child support and maintenance
payments and providing an income exclusion for a certain percentage of current
child support and maintenance payments; removing anticipated child support and
maintenance from the MFIP monthly income test; eliminating the requirement for
county agencies to budget child support income received by assistance units to
determine the assistance payment amount and a certain supplementary assistance
payments restriction; expanding local service unit plan content requirements;
providing for the allocation of local intervention for family employment funds;
appropriating federal TANF funds to the commissioner, requiring a certain amount
to be added to the appropriation for MFIP employment services, another amount
for training job counselors and evaluating the effectiveness of the local
interventions and another amount to reimburse the federal government for the
federal share of the child support recoveries passed through to custodial
parents; requiring the commissioner to identify and claim allowable state
expenditures from the income tax working family credit as TANF maintenance of
effort and to use a certain amount of money for the extended learning initiative
to establish or expand after and summer school programs to assist low income
children and families; requiring the commissioner to transfer a certain amount
of money to the housing finance agency (HFA) for transfer to the housing
development fund; repealing a certain requirement for county agencies to apply
unearned income to the MFIP standard of need (mk)