Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0754

1E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CHILD CARE POLICY

Modifying general
eligibility requirement for all applicants for child care assistance; providing
for a deferral period for families experiencing a change in income or authorized
activity resulting in a reduction in the amount of authorized care; requiring
the commissioner of human services to develop a biweekly family copayment
schedule for child care assistance for families with incomes under a certain
percentage of the state median; modifying subsidy restrictions; modifying the
number of absent days allowed for reimbursement to child care providers under
the child care assistance program, permitting child care center directors,
teachers, public health officials or nurses to verify illness in lieu of medical
practitioners; authorizing counties to pay for more absent days under certain
conditions

ARTICLE 2 - 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 the 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 the 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 the
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
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