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HF 4 Senate Long Description

Relating to family and early childhood educationARTICLE 1 - CHILDREN AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMSModifying the definition of child care provider and defining recoupment of overpayments 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; authorizing the commissioner to accept contributions or payments from counties beyond the match requirement for certain additional purposes; providing for provider payments by the state, requiring compliance with prompt payment requirements; 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; modifying the school readiness aid formula; 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; requiring the commissioner to periodically report to the legislature with information on the number of families served and the cost of direct services per family for the child care assistance programs administered by the commissioner, specifying certain report content 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 service 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, transition year families, MFIP child care assistance and social services child care costs ARTICLE 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 and increasing the community education levy for districts operating the programs; providing for retroactivity of contracts encumbered or grants awarded by state agencies before a certain date; 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; appropriating money to the department of military affairs for the guard our youth program serving certain at-risk and underserved youth; 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 LEARNINGClarifying the definition of unreimbursed expenses for adult basic education purposes; authorizing the department of corrections to receive ABE 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; extending the program audits schedule of the commissioner of children, families and learning; requiring the adult basic education policy task force to recommend to the legislature by a certain date an equitable funding formula for nondistrict programs based on an evaluation of costs and revenues; requiring the commissioner to hire a state adult basic education director to oversee the state ABE program, specifying duties; 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 the state director, 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; specifying certain reference replacement instructions to the revisor of statutes 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; 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; repealing the regional library telecommunications access grant program and certain obsolete state library rules(Ch. 3, 2001 First Special Session)