1E Modifying and expanding certain child care programs provisions relating to duties of counties, funding priorities, Minnesota family investment child care program (MFIP) eligibility, and child care rates; authorizing a family child care provider or child care center a Parent Aware differential under certain conditions; providing for a weekly rate paid for children attending high-quality care under certain conditions; modifying provisions relating to reduction of risk of sudden infant death in licensed programs; requiring training on risk of sudden unexpected infant death and abusive head trauma for child foster care providers and other programs; specifying family child care provider diapering area disinfection requirements; encouraging certain family child care infant sleep supervision duties; requiring child care license holder insurance; modifying and expanding family child care training and safety requirements for license holders, caregivers, and substitutes, requiring the commissioner to train county licensing staff prior to implementation of the new requirements; expanding background study requirements; modifying provisions relating to contracts for child foster care services; suspending the work participation cash benefits program; authorizing the commissioner to pursue TANF demonstration projects or waivers of TANF requirements; "Northstar Care for Children Act"; authorizing certain benefits to support a child in need who is served by the Minnesota child welfare system and who is the responsibility of the state, local county social service agencies, or tribal social service agencies or otherwise eligible for federal adoption assistance, specifying scope of the act and providing regulations; expanding certain criteria for relative custody assistance under the parentage act; prohibiting new execution of adoption assistance agreements; regulating financial responsibility requirements for pre-Northstar Care for children foster care programs; specifying initial clothing allowance availability requirements; repealing certain provisions relating to certain, cost provisions, MFIP exit level and certain rules
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