1E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CHILD CARE POLICY

Modifying general eligibility requirement for all applicants for child care assistance; providing for a deferral period for families experiencing a change in income or authorized activity resulting in a reduction in the amount of authorized care; requiring the commissioner of human services to develop a biweekly family copayment schedule for child care assistance for families with incomes under a certain percentage of the state median; modifying subsidy restrictions; modifying the number of absent days allowed for reimbursement to child care providers under the child care assistance program, permitting child care center directors, teachers, public health officials or nurses to verify illness in lieu of medical practitioners; authorizing counties to pay for more absent days under certain conditions

ARTICLE 2 - CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE CONSOLIDATION

Consolidating the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) and basic sliding fee child care programs; eliminating the requirement for allocation of federal reimbursements to counties for child care services and the authority of the commissioner of human services to certify advances of quarterly payments and modifying certain requirements for the withholding or reduction of county funds; modifying a certain provision providing for continued participation in the child care assistance program upon a family move to another county, eliminating the portability pool; modifying certain general eligibility requirements for child care assistance applicants and certain assistance eligibility date and payment requirements; providing eligibility for certain persons participating in employment, education or training plans or programs; requiring and providing for the payment of bonuses to family child care providers or child care centers providing qualified early care and learning; authorizing the commissioner to establish additional tiers of child care assistance reimbursement based on multiple levels of quality and licensure; providing for the payment of direct services delivery administrative costs; requiring the state obligation for the child care assistance program to be included in certain department of finance revenue and expenditure forecasts; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain provisions relating to transition year families and the basic sliding fee and MFIP child care assistance programs
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