1997 Minnesota Statutes

     256J.645 Indian tribe MFIP-S employment and training. 

    Subdivision 1.    Authorization to enter into agreements. 
  Effective July 1, 1997, the commissioner may enter into 
 agreements with federally recognized Indian tribes with a 
 reservation in the state to provide MFIP-S employment and 
 training services to members of the Indian tribe and to other 
 caregivers who are a part of the tribal member's MFIP-S 
 assistance unit.  For purposes of this section, "Indian tribe" 
 means a tribe, band, nation, or other federally recognized group 
 or community of Indians.  The commissioner may also enter into 
 an agreement with a consortium of Indian tribes providing the 
 governing body of each Indian tribe in the consortium complies 
 with the provisions of this section. 

    Subd. 2.    Tribal requirements.  The Indian tribe must: 

    (1) agree to fulfill the responsibilities provided under 
 the employment and training component of MFIP-S regarding 
 operation of MFIP-S employment and training services, as 
 designated by the commissioner; 

    (2) operate its employment and training services program 
 within a geographic service area not to exceed the counties 
 within which a border of the reservation falls; 

    (3) operate its program in conformity with section 13.46 
 and any applicable federal regulations in the use of data about 
 MFIP-S recipients; 

    (4) coordinate operation of its program with the county 
 agency, Job Training Partnership Act programs, and other support 
 services or employment-related programs in the counties in which 
 the tribal unit's program operates; 

    (5) provide financial and program participant activity 
 recordkeeping and reporting in the manner and using the forms 
 and procedures specified by the commissioner and permit 
 inspection of its program and records by representatives of the 
 state; and 

    (6) have the Indian tribe's employment and training service 
 provider certified by the commissioner of economic security, or 
 approved by the county. 

    Subd. 3.    Funding.  If the commissioner and an Indian 
 tribe are parties to an agreement under this subdivision, the 
 agreement may annually provide to the Indian tribe the funding 
 amount in clause (1) or (2): 

    (1) if the Indian tribe operated a tribal STRIDE program 
 during state fiscal year 1997, the amount to be provided is the 
 amount the Indian tribe received from the state for operation of 
 its tribal STRIDE program in state fiscal year 1997, except that 
 the amount provided for a fiscal year may increase or decrease 
 in the same proportion that the total amount of state funds 
 available for MFIP-S employment and training services increased 
 or decreased that fiscal year; or 

    (2) if the Indian tribe did not operate a tribal STRIDE 
 program during state fiscal year 1997, the commissioner may 
 provide to the Indian tribe for the first year of operations the 
 amount determined by multiplying the state allocation for MFIP-S 
 employment and training services to each county agency in the 
 Indian tribe's service delivery area by the percentage of MFIP-S 
 recipients in that county who were members of the Indian tribe 
 during the previous state fiscal year.  The resulting amount 
 shall also be the amount that the commissioner may provide to 
 the Indian tribe annually thereafter through an agreement under 
 this subdivision, except that the amount provided for a fiscal 
 year may increase or decrease in the same proportion that the 
 total amount of state funds available for MFIP-S employment and 
 training services increased or decreased that fiscal year.  

    Subd. 4.    County agency requirement.  Indian tribal 
 members receiving MFIP-S benefits and residing in the service 
 area of an Indian tribe operating employment and training 
 services under an agreement with the commissioner must be 
 referred by county agencies in the service area to the Indian 
 tribe for employment and training services. 

    HIST: 1997 c 85 art 1 s 51