2000 Minnesota Statutes

     256.82 Payments by state. 

    Subdivision 1. Repealed, 1997 c 203 art 11 s 13 

    Subd. 2.    Foster care maintenance payments.  Beginning 
 January 1, 1986, for the purpose of foster care maintenance 
 payments under title IV-E of the Social Security Act, United 
 States Code, title 42, sections 670 to 676, the county paying 
 the maintenance costs must be reimbursed for the costs from the 
 federal money available for the purpose.  Beginning July 1, 
 1997, for the purposes of determining a child's eligibility 
 under title IV-E of the Social Security Act, the placing agency 
 shall use AFDC requirements in effect on July 16, 1996. 

    Subd. 3.    Setting foster care standard rates.  The 
 commissioner shall annually establish minimum standard 
 maintenance rates for foster care maintenance and difficulty of 
 care payments for all children in foster care.  

    Subd. 4.    Rules.  The commissioner shall adopt rules 
 to implement subdivision 3.  In developing rules, the 
 commissioner shall take into consideration any existing 
 difficulty of care payment rates so that, to the extent 
 possible, no child for whom a difficulty of care rate is 
 currently established will be adversely affected. 

    Subd. 5.    Difficulty of care assessment pilot project. 
  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the commissioner of 
 human services shall conduct a two-year statewide pilot project 
 beginning July 1, 1997, to conduct a difficulty of care 
 assessment process which both assesses an individual child's 
 current functioning and identifies needs in a variety of life 
 situations.  The pilot project must take into consideration 
 existing difficulty of care payments so that, to the extent 
 possible, no child for whom a difficulty of care rate is 
 currently established will be adversely affected.  The pilot 
 project must include an evaluation and an interim report to the 
 legislature by January 15, 1999. 

    HIST: (8688-16) 1937 c 438 s 14; 1943 c 619 s 1; 1951 c 229 s 
 6; 1977 c 423 art 3 s 3; 1979 c 303 art 2 s 1; 1980 c 607 art 2 
 s 2; 1982 c 553 s 1; 1983 c 312 art 5 s 5; 1Sp1985 c 9 art 2 s 
 31; 1987 c 235 s 1,2; 1988 c 719 art 8 s 6; 1989 c 277 art 2 s 
 5; 1Sp1989 c 1 art 16 s 3; 1990 c 568 art 4 s 84; 1991 c 292 art 
 5 s 23; 1997 c 7 art 5 s 29; 1997 c 85 art 3 s 8; 1997 c 203 art 
 5 s 11; art 11 s 3; 1998 c 406 art 1 s 10,37; 1998 c 407 art 9 s 
 10; 1999 c 159 s 44; 2000 c 260 s 97