Consolidating the Minnesota family investment program and basic sliding fee child care assistance programs; defining or redefining certain terms for child care programs purposes; establishing a child care assistance program to subsidize the child care costs of eligible families, authorizing funding by county contributions, state appropriations and federal funds and specifying certain requirements of the services and enrolled families; establishing a child support collection account in the special revenue fund for the deposit of collections from the assignment of child support to the state under certain public assistance programs and appropriating money in the account to the commissioner of children, families and learning for child care assistance; specifying child care assistance program general and income eligibility requirements, requiring family participation in certain activities relating to employment or post-secondary education and providing for continued eligibility; providing for the calculation of assistance benefits, prohibiting counties from limiting the duration of assistance for students, exception; providing for continuation of assistance upon moving to another county and for the date of eligibility for assistance; modifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to child care services, requiring the commissioner to recover from counties state or federal money spent for ineligible persons, exception, requiring counties to pay a share proportional to federal earnings under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner to specify requirements for reports under the same authority as the commissioner of human services and to notify counties within a certain period of time of the approval of child care fund plans, requiring withholding of county allocations until plan approval, specifying a certain county services maintenance requirement; requiring the commissioner to notify county and human services boards of the forms and instructions to follow in the development of child care fund plans; authorizing commissioner periodic payments to counties, authorizing the withholding of payments for incomplete or untimely expenditure reports; requiring commissioner review of county use of child care assistance program allocations, authorizing reallocation; authorizing the commissioner to withhold, reduce or terminate allocations to counties for noncompliance with certain requirements, requiring reallocation; requiring the commissioner to receive, administer and expend funds available under the federal child care and development fund and to allocate federal earnings to counties to expand child care services to serve additional families; requiring the commissioner to use a certain portion of available state and federal funds for the child care assistance program for payments to counties for administrative expenses; requiring the commissioner to determine the maximum rate for care including special needs and handicapped care; specifying duties of counties relating to extension of employment opportunities and application methods, program administration contracts, assistance priority and waiting list requirements, federal reimbursement maximization, child care fund plans, county contributions and maintenance of funding effort, quality child care services information, income redetermination, notice of child care assistance payment amount and method, vendor payments and payments for absent children; requiring the commissioner in cooperation of the commissioner of human services to enforce the requirements for program integrity and fraud prevention investigations; providing for county agency recovery of overpayments and for fair hearings and informal conferences for applicants or recipients adversely affected by county agency action; providing for child care assistance program funding, specifying the allocation formula; providing for sliding and parent fees and for provider choice, subsidy restrictions and rates; modifying certain provisions under the at home infant child care program, changing references to the basic sliding fee program to the child care assistance program; repealing certain provisions relating to transition year families, the basic sliding fee program, the federal child care and development fund and block grant, the MFIP child care assistance program, the use of certain money, reporting and payments, financial and employment or training eligibility, county contributions, the sliding fee scale, child care rates, extension of employment opportunities, administrative expenses and the fair hearing process(ra)