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SF 2222 Senate Long Description

E 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; modifying certain definitions 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 and to provide training and other support services to counties 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 the basic sliding fee program and requiring use of unspent funds in the portability pool for the program; eliminating certain student eligibility provisions; modifying reserve account requirements and provider choice provisions; 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; expanding funding priorities to programs serving ethnic immigrant and refugee communities; 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 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; expanding required components of the adolescent parenting grant program to transportation options; requiring the commissioner of finance in cooperation with the commissioners of children, families and learning and human services to use certain expenditures on child care assistance to provide a state match to obtain federal welfare to work grant money and providing for allocation; requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to initiate contracts 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, to develop a plan for integrating child care and early childhood education programs and services and to identify potential obstacles to the consolidation of the 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 -2003 biennium; 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; specifying certain term change or replacement instructions to the revisor of statutes; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for school readiness program revenue, for early childhood family education (ECFE) and health and developmental screening aids, for way to grow and head start programs, for school age care aid, 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 child care assistance and child care development grants; repealing certain obsolete provisions and the Minnesota early childhood care and education council ARTICLE 2 - COMMUNITY AND SYSTEMS CHANGEAppropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for family services collaboratives, for community education and adults with disabilities program aids and for hearing impaired adults programsARTICLE 3 - PREVENTION AND INTERVENTIONRequiring commissioner of children, families and learning grants to nonprofit organizations to fund culturally appropriate tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse and violence prevention programs for American Indian youth; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for violence prevention education, after school enrichment, alcohol impaired driver and family visitation center grants, for abused children programs and for the children's trust fund 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; modifying the formulas for adult basic education and high school graduation aids; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for Minnesota economic opportunity, emergency services and family assets program grants, for transitional housing and food shelf programs, for adult basic and graduation aids, for GED tests and for the CLEARCorps lead hazard reduction project 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; 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; 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(ja)