SF 1311 Senate Long Description
E Modifying certain provisions under the Minnesota family investment program; requiring disqualification from the group residential housing (GRH) program for conviction of wrongfully obtaining assistance (welfare fraud) and from the food stamp program upon disqualification from MFIP; clarifying eligibility for Minnesota supplement aid (MSA); defining person trained in domestic violence for MFIP purposes; clarifying the exclusion of supplemental security income (SSI) from the definition of income for MFIP eligibility determination purposes; imposing a caregiver requirement for minor child assistance unit inclusion purposes; modifying the exception from the requirement for county agencies to use the shared household standard in cases of and clarifying the requirement for the agencies to verify claims of family violence; clarifying the application of the 60 month time limit to minor caregivers; changing the term adults living on an Indian reservation to adults living in Indian country for time limit determination purposes; modifying certain orientation requirements, requiring inclusion of information on the time limit exemption and waivers of employment and training requirements and on shelters and programs for victims of family violence; requiring review of alternative employment plans of participants failing to comply with the plans by persons trained in domestic violence and the county or job counselor to determine the appropriateness of the activities, requiring revision with a person trained in domestic violence and approval by the county or job counselor under certain conditions, requiring participants failing to comply with plans determined not to need revision to comply with regular employment services activities, prohibiting the imposition of sanctions on certain single parents and providing for a family violence waiver; providing for expedited processing of applications for emergency assistance (EA) in certain immediate and severe situations; defining alternative employment plan and redefining domestic violence as family violence for employment and training requirements purposes; modifying the work activities requirement for two parent families; requiring counties without staff persons trained in domestic violence to work with the nearest organization designated as providing services to victims of domestic violence to develop a process ensuring access by domestic violence victims to persons trained in domestic violence; requiring overviews of employment and training services to provide referral information about shelters and programs, the time limit exemption and waivers of employment and training requirements for family violence victims, exempting participants with alternative employment plans from overview attendance requirements; requiring and providing for the development of alternative employment plans for participants declaring or revealing current or past family violence and eliminating safety plan requirements, requiring conversion of safety plans to alternative employment plans at the time of renewal and requiring and providing for review of alternative employment plans after a certain period of time for appropriateness determination purposes; clarifying or removing certain exemptions from employment and training or work first program requirements; eliminating a certain set aside requirement for county caseload based funds; restricting the application of the continuation of case management or other support services provision; eliminating certain county authority to expend funds for specific employment and training services for the duration of the services; modifying certain provisions governing Indian tribes, eliminating training from the employment services component and modifying funding allocation requirements; specifying certain reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the interstate transitional standards (mk, ja)