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HF 1515 Senate Long Description

Relating to family and early childhood educationARTICLE 1 CHILDREN AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMSModifying the definition of child care provider for child care programs purposes; providing for development of the child care development fund plan, requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to present draft and final plans to the legislature before the deadline for submission of the plan to the federal government; modifying certain provisions under the at home infant child care program, increasing the maximum rate of assistance and eliminating the requirement to treat assistance received as unearned income; expanding the responsibility of the commissioner relating to encouraging child care providers to participate in nationally recognized accreditation systems to school age care programs; specifying a reserve account limit for early childhood family education and school readiness revenue, requiring prior approval of the commissioner to exceed the limit; delaying the date for annual state interagency coordinating council recommendations to the governor and the commissioners of children, families and learning, health, human services, commerce and economic security on policies for a comprehensive and coordinated interagency early childhood intervention system and extending the expiration date of the council; requiring the commissioner to establish a temporary interagency committee to coordinate state services for children with autism, specifying certain membership representation and plan development requirements; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for school readiness programs revenue, for ECFE and health and developmental screening aids, for way to grow grants, for head start programs, for school age care aid, for child care basic sliding fee assistance, for child care assistance under the Minnesota family investment program, for child care program integrity and fraud prevention and for child care development grants; appropriating child support collection payments to the department for child care assistance and transferring federal TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) funds to the child care and development fund for basic sliding fee and MFIP child care assistanceARTICLE 2 PREVENTIONAuthorizing the commissioner of children, families and learning to disburse children's trust fund for the prevention of child abuse money for child abuse prevention programs and authorizing the transfer of state funds appropriated for child maltreatment prevention grants to the trust fund special revenue account; requiring the commissioner to develop a plan to disburse money from the trust fund and appropriating money from the fund for operational costs; requiring the commissioner to develop teen pregnancy prevention programs; expanding abused children programs grants to programs providing neglect intervention services; establishing the child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention council to advise the commissioner on the implementation and continued operations of child abuse programs, specifying membership requirements and responsibilities; authorizing school districts operating community education programs to establish youth after school enrichment programs, specifying goals; requiring school districts offering community education programs to annually report certain costs to the commissioner; creating a formula for youth after school enrichment revenue; increasing the community education levy; 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 and abused children programs, for the children's trust fund, for violence prevention education, after school enrichment and chemical abuse prevention grants and for family visitation centers, appropriating money for a grant to St. Louis Park for the Meadowbrook collaborative housing project; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain provisions providing for the disbursement of funds for child abuse prevention and the advisory council, the male responsibility and fathering grant program and the educational program for pregnant minors and minor parents ARTICLE 3 SELF SUFFICIENCY AND LIFELONG LEARNINGAuthorizing the department of corrections to receive adult basic education program aid; providing for ABE supplemental services grants as a state total adult basic education aid set aside and reducing the proportion requirement, requiring a certain percentage of the state total adult basic education aid to be set aside for the grants; modifying the adult basic education program revenue formula; specifying certain reference replacement instructions to the revisor of statutes; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for Minnesota economic opportunity grants, for transitional housing programs, for emergency services, for adult basic education and graduation aids, for ABE audits and a state coordinator, for payment of certain GED test costs, for foodshelf programs, for family assets for independence and for lead abatement; appropriating federal temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) block grant funds to the commissioner for intensive English as a second language (ESL) for eligible Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) participants and for transitional housing programs reimbursement grants ARTICLE 4 LIBRARIESExtending the expiration date of the Minnesota library for the blind and physically handicapped advisory committee; providing for regional library telecommunications aid, specifying eligibility and application requirements and providing for the awarding of funds by the commissioner of children, families and learning, sunset provision; requiring the commissioner to include in recommendations for a permanent method of funding telecommunications access for schools a permanent method to fund telecommunications access as part of the basic support grants for public libraries; repealing the regional library telecommunications access grant program and certain obsolete state library rules; appropriating money to the department of children, families and learning for regional library basic system support grants, for multicounty multitype library systems and for regional library telecommunications aid (Ch. 217, 2001 - VETO)