E Modifying certain child care assistance provisions; expanding the + definition of provider and redefining recoupment of overpayments; requiring +counties to verify certain factors using a universal application for child care +application and redetermination purposes and to request social security numbers +from applicants, prohibiting denial of child care assistance for failure +to comply; strengthening the provision requiring the recovery of overpayments, +imposing joint liability on the family and the provider for intentionally +causing an overpayment; requiring counties to authorize providers to receive +child care assistance payments before making the payments, requiring the +commissioner of children, families and learning (CFL) to establish authorization +requirements and prohibiting the authorization of certain convicted offenders and +certain others as legal nonlicensed family child care providers, exceptions; +providing for provisional payment to certain providers after authorization; +specifying certain provider recordkeeping requirements; eliminating direct +payments to parents and imposing a time limit for submission of bills by +providers for county or state payment purposes; providing for fair hearings on +overpayments, requiring county agencies to offer informal conferences to providers;+ expanding administrative fraud disqualification hearing requirements to +providers caring for children receiving child care assistance and requiring +disqualification for wrongfully obtaining assistance (mk, ja)