Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1328

Relating to welfare reform; enabling low-income workers to meet basic
needs

ARTICLE 1 - FINDINGS

Providing a declaration of purpose

ARTICLE 2
- CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE CONSOLIDATION

Providing child care assistance to
low-income workers; 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 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 commissioner to establish additional tiers of child care assistance
reimbursement based on multiple levels of quality and licensure; modifying child
care rates subsidy restrictions; providing for the payment of direct services
delivery administrative costs; requiring the state obligation for child care
assistance program to be included in certain department of management and budget
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

ARTICLE 3 - WORKING FAMILY TAX
CREDIT

Increasing working family tax credit; modifying certain credit
requirements for individuals qualifying for the working family tax
credit

ARTICLE 4 - MINIMUM WAGE

Increasing the minimum wage required to be
paid by large and small
employers

ARTICLE 5 - MINNESOTA EMERGENCY EMPLOYMENT
DEVELOPMENT

"Minnesota Emergency Employment Development (MEED) Act of 2011";
reestablishing an emergency employment development program and providing wage
subsidies; providing for temporary employment projects in the government and
nonprofit agencies and new permanent job creation in the private sector;
defining certain terms; requiring commissioner of employment and economic
development (DEED) to administer the program, specifying certain enforcement
requirements, requiring report to the legislature and authorizing rulemaking;
providing for allocation of funds among and within workforce service areas for
eligible job applicants and employers; regulating use of appropriated funds;
specifying certain powers and duties of employment administrators for each
workforce service area; specifying project eligibility requirements for
government, nonprofit agencies and business employers; giving fund allocation
priority to certain eligible businesses meeting certain criteria; requiring
employer accountability; creating the MEED account in the state treasury,
specifying fund distribution and funding; prohibiting worker displacement;
appropriating money
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