1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; modifying requirements for information for child care 
1.3 	license holders; appropriating money;amending Minnesota Statutes 2017 
1.4 	Supplement, section 245A.1434.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2017 Supplement, section 245A.1434, is amended to read:
1.7 	245A.1434 INFORMATION FOR CHILD CARE LICENSE HOLDERS.
1.8 	(a) The commissioner shall inform family child care and child care center license holders 
1.9 	on a timely basis of changes to state and federal statute, rule, regulation, and policy relating 
1.10 	to the provision of licensed child care, the child care assistance program under chapter 119B, 
1.11 	the quality rating and improvement system under section 124D.142, and child care licensing 
1.12 	functions delegated to counties. Communications under this section paragraph shall include 
1.13 	information to promote license holder compliance with identified changes. Communications 
1.14 	under this section paragraph may be accomplished by electronic means and shall be made 
1.15 	available to the public online.
1.16 	(b) Each year, the commissioner shall provide each child care licensee with a booklet 
1.17 	containing the compiled statutes and rules that pertain to child care licensing and regulation, 
1.18 	at no cost to the licensee.
1.19 	(c) The commissioner shall develop a comprehensive child care regulation handbook, 
1.20 	updated each year in which changes are made to statutes or rules pertaining to child care 
1.21 	licensing and regulation, that provides all information and requirements related to child care 
1.22 	licensing and regulation contained in the statutes and rules in clear and plain language, as 
1.23 	defined in section 256.016. The commissioner shall make this handbook available to the 
2.1 	public online and shall provide each child care licensee with one physical copy of the 
2.2 	handbook, at no cost to the licensee, each year in which the handbook is updated.

2.3 	Sec. 2. APPROPRIATION.
 2.4 	$....... in fiscal year 2019 is appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of 
2.5 	human services for the purposes of section 1.