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; defining or redefining certain terms 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 counties and to provide training and other support services to counties, to develop and make available to counties a universal application form for child care assistance 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 and the allocation formula under the basic sliding fee program and requiring use of unspent funds in the portability pool for the program; modifying certain student eligibility provisions and providing eligibility for families participating in programs under tribal contracts; modifying the at home infant child care program; establishing a child support collection account in the special revenue fund for the deposit of collections through the assignment of child support; 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; extending the service period requirement for child development education and training loan forgiveness purposes; expanding the required uses by nonprofit corporations of child care improvement grants; increasing school district developmental screening aid and the revenue and levy formulas for early childhood family education programs, requiring districts to establish sliding fee scales for ECFE program participants; 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 payment of increased costs to county boards for implementing early intervention services with service dollars in lieu of flow through dollars; 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 and disqualifying persons found to be guilty of wrongfully obtaining assistance from child care assistance programs; expanding the required components of the adolescent parenting grant program to transportation options; requiring the commissioner to develop a plan for integrating child care and early childhood education programs and services, in cooperation with the commissioner of revenue to establish incentives to increase parental choice in child care through increased availability of pretax child care accounts, to amend the parent fee schedule and to initiate contacts 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; providing for additional ECFE aid for fiscal year 2000; requiring the commissioner to identify potential obstacles to the consolidation of 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 2002-2003 biennium; requiring the commissioner of finance to examine relevant state expenditures authorized to be used as a state match to obtain federal welfare to work funds; 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; superseding certain inconsistent amendments; specifying certain headnote and term change instructions to the revisor of statutes; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for school readiness program revenue, for ECFE, health and developmental screening and school age care aids, for way to grow and head start programs, 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 and transition year child care assistance, for child care development activities and for program integrity and fraud prevention administrative costs; repealing certain obsolete provisions, the child care funds reserve account and the Minnesota early childhood care and education council; repealing the parent fee schedule on the effective date of certain specified rule changes ARTICLE 2 - COMMUNITY AND SYSTEMS CHANGEIncreasing the community education levy formula; expanding certain tax rate and equalizing factor adjustment requirements of the commissioner of children, families and learning; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for family services collaboratives, for community education and adults with disabilities program aids, for hearing impaired adults programs and for a grant to First Call Minnesota to operate a statewide system of information and referral for community servicesARTICLE 3 - PREVENTION AND INTERVENTIONEstablishing an after school enrichment grant program to provide implementation grants to community or nonprofit organizations, local government units or school based program, requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to develop criteria for the programs; specifying certain priority neighborhoods for grants in Minneapolis and St. Paul and certain program outcomes and plan requirements; expanding expected outcomes of male responsibility and fathering grant programs, requiring grant applicants to detail the method of program effectiveness evaluation; clarifying the required use of a certain amount of money in the alcohol impaired driver education account; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for violence prevention education, after school enrichment, alcohol impaired driver, adolescent parenting and male responsibility and fathering grants, for abused children programs, for the children's trust fund and for family visitation centers 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; expanding authorized teachers of English as a second language in adult basic education programs; requiring school districts with approved adult basic education programs to establish a basic service level for each site; modifying the formulas for adult basic education and high school graduation aids and providing for basic population aid for certain school districts; expanding eligibility for the family assets for independence initiative program and reducing the match requirements, providing for matching fund custodial accounts held by fiscal agents and modifying certain reporting requirements; requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to establish a task force to review, evaluate and make legislative recommendations by a certain date on improving the delivery of adult basic education services; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for Minnesota economic opportunity and emergency services grants, for transitional housing and food shelf programs, for adult basic education, population and graduation aids, for GED tests and for grants to the Ramsey action program for the family assets for independence program, to a nonprofit organization operating the CLEARCorps lead hazard reduction project and to a public television station providing GED programming in rural areas of the state; repealing the requirement for proportionate reduction of adult basic education aid under certain insufficiency conditions 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; requiring a local match; 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, local match not to be required; 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(Ch. 205, 1999)