1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; appropriating money to the Minnesota Initiative 
1.3 	Foundations.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATIONS.
 1.6 	$1,500,000 in fiscal year 2017 is appropriated from the general fund to the 
1.7 	commissioner of human services to provide a grant of $250,000 to each of the six 
1.8 	Minnesota Initiative Foundations to increase access to affordable child care in greater 
1.9 	Minnesota. Grant funds may be used for, but are not limited to, the following activities:
1.10 	(1) increase child care provider training and professional development;
1.11 	(2) support legal nonlicensed family, friend, and neighbor child care providers;
1.12 	(3) provide potential and current child care providers with licensing, financial, 
1.13 	and technical assistance;
1.14 	(4) help child care providers become rated under the Parent Aware quality rating 
1.15 	system; and
1.16 	(5) strengthen local capacity and increase the availability of affordable high-quality 
1.17 	child care in each region.
1.18 	This is a onetime appropriation.