Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1792

Relating to human services; 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;
appropriating money to the commissioner of human services for grants to legal
unlicensed child care providers for aid in becoming licensed; 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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