1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to child care providers; requiring reports; appropriating money to establish 
1.3 	a peer mentoring program for licensed family child care providers.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; PEER MENTORING PROGRAM FOR LICENSED 
1.6 	FAMILY CHILD CARE PROVIDERS.
 1.7 	(a) $30,000 in fiscal year 2022 and $20,000 in fiscal year 2023 are appropriated from 
1.8 	the general fund to the commissioner of human services for a grant to the Minnesota Child 
1.9 	Care Provider Information Network for establishing a peer mentoring program for licensed 
1.10 	family child care providers in the state. The grant money must be used to revise and update 
1.11 	peer mentoring program curricula, recruit and train mentors and program participants, and 
1.12 	support mentors and active mentoring. The Minnesota Child Care Provider Information 
1.13 	Network must submit to the commissioner an initial report describing the program's 
1.14 	implementation progress and financial accounting by September 1, 2022, and a final report 
1.15 	must be submitted by June 30, 2023.
1.16 	(b) Any unexpended balance in the first year of the biennium does not cancel and is 
1.17 	available in the second year of the biennium. This is a onetime appropriation.