1st Engrossment - 89th Legislature (2015 - 2016) Posted on 03/19/2015 03:48pm
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A bill for an act
relating to local government aid for out-of-home placement costs of children
under the Indian Child Welfare Act; appropriating money; proposing coding for
new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 477A.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
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When used in this section, "out-of-home placement"
means 24-hour substitute care for an Indian child as defined by section 260C.007,
subdivision 21, placed under the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and chapter 260C,
away from the child's parent or guardian and for whom the county social services agency
or county correctional agency has been assigned responsibility for the child's placement
and care, which includes placement in foster care under section 260C.007, subdivision
18, and a correctional facility pursuant to a court order.
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(a) By January 1, 2016, each
county shall report the following information to the commissioners of human services and
corrections: (1) the separate amounts paid out of its social service agency and its corrections
budget for out-of-home placement of children under the ICWA in calendar years 2012,
2013, and 2014; and (2) the number of case days associated with the expenditures from
each budget. By March 15, 2016, the commissioner of human services, in consultation with
the commissioner of corrections, shall certify to the commissioner of revenue and to the
legislative committees responsible for local government aids and out-of-home placement
funding, whether the data reported under this subdivision accurately reflects total
expenditures by counties for out-of-home placement costs of children under the ICWA.
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(b) By January 1, 2018, and each January 1 thereafter, each county shall report to the
commissioners of human services and corrections the separate amounts paid out of its
social service agency and its corrections budget for out-of-home placement of children
under the ICWA in the calendar years two years before the current calendar year along
with the number of case days associated with the expenditures from each budget.
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(c) Until the commissioner of human services develops another mechanism for
collecting and verifying data on out-of-home placements of children under the ICWA, and
the legislature authorizes the use of that data, the data collected under this subdivision
must be used to calculate payments under subdivision 3. The commissioner of human
services shall certify the information to the commissioner of revenue by July 1 of the year
prior to the aid payment.
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For aids payable in calendar year 2017 and thereafter, the
commissioner of revenue shall reimburse each county for 100 percent of the nonfederal
share of the cost of out-of-home placement of children under the ICWA provided the
commissioner of human services, in consultation with the commissioner of corrections,
certifies to the commissioner of revenue that accurate data is available to make the aid
determination under this section. The amount of reimbursement is the county's average
nonfederal share of the cost for out-of-home placement of children under the ICWA for the
most recent three calendar years for which data is available. The commissioner shall pay
the aid under the schedule used for local government aid payments under section 477A.015.
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An amount sufficient to pay aid under this section is
annually appropriated to the commissioner of revenue from the general fund.
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This section is effective beginning with aids payable in 2017.
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