Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3107

E Modifying certain provisions under the Minnesota family investment program;
requiring disqualification from the food stamp program upon disqualification
from MFIP; clarifying eligibility for Minnesota supplement aid (MSA); defining
person trained in domestic violence for MFIP purposes; clarifying the exclusion
of supplemental security income (SSI) from the definition of income for MFIP
eligibility determination purposes; imposing a caregiver requirement for minor
child assistance unit inclusion purposes; clarifying the requirement for county
agencies to verify claims of family violence; eliminating the 60 month time
limit for minor heads of household; requiring county agencies to disregard time
as an Indian country resident in determining the 60 month time limit and
excluding the receipt of diversionary and emergency assistance from the limit;
providing for a hardship extension for certain families; modifying certain
orientation requirements; requiring review of alternative employment plans of
participants failing to comply with the plans by job counselors and persons
trained in domestic violence to determine the appropriateness of the activities,
requiring revision under certain conditions and restricting the imposition of
sanctions, providing for a family violence waiver; providing for expedited
processing of applications for emergency assistance (EA) in certain immediate
and severe situations; defining alternative employment plan and redefining
domestic violence and family violence for employment and training requirements
purposes; modifying the work activities requirement for two parent families;
requiring counties without staff persons trained in domestic violence to work
with the nearest organization designated as providing services to victims of
domestic violence to develop a process ensuring access by domestic violence
victims to persons trained in domestic violence; requiring overviews of
employment and training services to provide referral information about shelters
and programs for victims of family violence, exempting participants with
alternative employment plans from overview attendance requirements; requiring
and providing for the development of alternative employment plans for
participants declaring or revealing current or past family violence and
eliminating certain safety plan requirements, requiring review of alternative
employment plans after a certain period of time; restricting application of the
continuation of case management or other support services requirement;
eliminating certain county authority to expend funds for specific employment and
training services for the duration of the services; specifying certain reference
change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the interstate
transitional standard and certain exiting provisions relating to the month time
limit (ra, ja)