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Article 1: Children and Family Support Programs
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Provider. Makes changes to the definition of "provider."
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Recoupment of overpayments. Defines recoupment as a process
to recover excess
payments through a reduction in assistance, irrespective of the responsibility for the original
overpayment. |
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Child care development fund plan development; review.
Requires the commissioner to
present a draft copy of the plan to the legislative finance committees that oversee child care
assistance funding no less than 30 days prior to the deadline for federal submission. |
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Assistance. Modifies the calculation of family income while the
family is participating in the
at-home infant child care assistance program. |
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Provider payments. Allows the state to make vendor payments
to child care providers or
parents for eligible child care expenses. |
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County contributions required. Authorizes the department of
children, families, and
learning (CFL) to accept county contributions for the required child care match, to pay for
authorized child care services, or to pay for additional services authorized in law.
Contributions are deposited in the special revenue fund and appropriated to the
commissioner. |
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Duties of commissioner. Upon approval by the commissioner,
family child care providers
and early childhood and school-age care programs must be reimbursed for one-half of the
direct cost of accreditation fees. |
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Reserve account limit. Limits the average revenue in a district's
early childhood family
education (ECFE) reserve account over the prior three years to 25 percent of the district's
ECFE revenue for the prior year. Reduces ECFE revenue by any amount in excess of an
average of 25 percent of the district's ECFE revenue for the prior three years. |
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Waiver. Allows districts anticipating a reserve account in excess
of 25 percent of ECFE
revenue due to extenuating circumstances to obtain prior written approval from CFL to
exceed the limit. |
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Amount of aid. Modifies the school readiness aid formula.
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Reserve account. Requires school readiness revenue, including
aids, fees, grants, and all
other revenues, to be maintained in a separate reserve account within the community service
fund. |
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Reserve account limit. Limits the average revenue in a district's
school readiness reserve
account over the prior three years to 25 percent of the district's school readiness revenue for
the prior year. Reduces school readiness revenue for the current year by any amount in
excess of an average of 25 percent of the district's school readiness revenue for the prior
three years. |
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Waiver. Allows districts anticipating a reserve account in excess
of 25 percent of school
readiness revenue due to extenuating circumstances to obtain prior written approval from
CFL to exceed the limit. |
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State interagency coordinating council. Changes from June 1 to
September 1 the date by
which the state interagency coordinating council must make recommendations. Extends the
expiration date of the council from June 30, 2001 to June 30, 2003. |
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Interagency autism coordinating committee. Requires the
commissioner to establish an
interagency committee to coordinate state efforts related to serving children with autism.
Requires the committee to make recommendations to the legislature by December 1, 2001.
Makes the committee expire on June 30, 2003. |
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Child care report. Requires CFL to report to the legislative
committees responsible for
child care twice a year with information on the number of families receiving child care
assistance and the cost of direct service. The report must include the number who receive
assistance and number who would receive assistance at various increments of income
eligibility and exit levels. |
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Appropriations. See spreadsheet. |
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Special revenue; child support collection. See spreadsheet.
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Federal TANF transfers. See spreadsheet. |
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Effective date. Makes the child care development fund plan and
the interagency autism
coordinating committee effective the day following final enactment. |
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Article 2: Prevention
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Authority to disburse funds. Allows the commissioner to
disburse children's trust fund
money to any public or private nonprofit agency to fund a child abuse prevention program.
Allows state funds appropriated for child maltreatment prevention grants to be transferred to
the children's trust fund special revenue account. |
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Plan for disbursement of funds. Requires the commissioner to
develop a plan to disburse
money from the children's trust fund. Requires the plan to ensure that all geographic areas
of the state have an equal opportunity to establish prevention programs and receive trust
fund money. |
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Operational costs. Appropriates $120,000 each year from the
children's trust fund to the
special revenue fund for administration and indirect costs of the children's trust fund
program. |
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Responsibilities of commissioner. Adds language requiring the
commissioner to
encourage the development of child abuse prevention programs, including programs that
provide support for adolescent parents, fathering education programs, and other prevention
activities designed to prevent teen pregnancy. |
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Grants to service provider programs. |
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Subd. 1. Grants awarded. Adds language requiring the
commissioner to award
grants to programs that provide neglect intervention in addition to child abuse
services. |
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Subd. 2. Applications. Makes technical changes. Strikes
language listing the
information required to be included in an application for a child abuse and neglect
intervention services grant. |
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Subd. 3. Duties. Makes technical changes. |
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Duties of the commissioner. Strikes language referencing the
abused children advisory
council. Makes technical changes. |
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Advisory council. |
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Subd. 1. Generally. Establishes a council to advise the
commissioner on the
implementation and continued operations of the children's trust fund and the abused
child program. Causes the council to expire on June 30, 2005. |
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Subd. 2. Council membership. Requires the council to
consist of a total of 22
members. Requires the governor to appoint 18 of the members. Requires the
commissioners of human services and health to each appoint one member. Requires
the senate to appoint one member from the family and early childhood education
finance committee and the house to appoint one member from the family and early
childhood finance committee. Requires council members to have knowledge in the
areas of child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention. Requires council
members to be representative of: |
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- local government;
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- criminal justice;
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- parents;
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- consumers of services;
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- health and human services professionals;
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- faith community;
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- professional and volunteer providers of child abuse and neglect prevention and
intervention services;
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- racial and ethnic minority communities; and
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- the demographic and geographic composition of the state.
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Requires 10 council members to reside in the seven county metro area and eight to reside in
nonmetro areas. |
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Subd. 3. Responsibilities. Requires the council
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- advise the commissioner;
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- coordinate and exchange information;
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- develop and publish criteria and guidelines for receiving grants relating to child
abuse and neglect prevention;
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- provide guidance in the development of statewide education and public
information activities that increase public awareness in the prevention and
intervention of child abuse and neglect;
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- guide, analyze, and disseminate results in the development of appropriate
evaluation procedures for all programs receiving funds; and
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- assist the commissioner in identifying service gaps or duplication in
services.
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Youth after-school enrichment programs. Allows districts
operating community
education programs to establish youth after-school enrichment programs. |
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Youth after-school enrichment program goals. Lists the goals of
youth after-school
enrichment programs. |
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Community education; annual report. Requires each district
offering a community
education program to annually report to CFL information regarding the cost per participant
and cost per contact hour for all programs. |
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Total community education revenue. Makes technical changes.
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Youth after-school enrichment revenue. Creates a formula for
youth after-school
enrichment revenue. |
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Total community education levy. Increases the amount a district
may levy for community
education from .4795 percent times ANTC to a maximum of .7431 percent times ANTC.
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Retroactivity. Authorizes retroactive contracts and grant awards
by state agencies if the
contract is encumbered or grant is awarded before September 1, 2001. |
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Appropriations. See spreadsheet for appropriations to
CFL. |
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Appropriations. See spreadsheet for appropriations to the
department of military affairs. |
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Revisor instruction. Requires the revisor to renumber the
commissioner's responsibilities
for the children's trust fund and make the necessary cross-reference changes. |
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Repealer. Repeals children's trust fund advisory council, abused
child advisory council,
male responsibility and fathering grants, and adolescent parenting grants. |
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Effective date. Makes youth after-school enrichment revenue
and levy effective for revenue
for fiscal year 2003. |
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Article 3: Self-Sufficiency and Lifelong Learning
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Unreimbursed expenses. Limits unreimbursed expenses for adult
basic education (ABE) to
the current program year. |
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Program approval. Allows a state agency to receive state ABE
aid by submitting an
application describing the ABE program. |
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Adult basic education supplemental service grants. Makes
supplemental service grants a
set-aside of state total ABE aid. |
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State total adult basic education aid. Makes the supplement
service set-aside equal to
two percent of state total ABE aid. |
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Program revenue. Modifies the limited English proficiency
portion of the ABE revenue
formula. |
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Program audits. Delays the auditing of ABE programs by one
year. With this change, half
the ABE programs will be audited in 2003 and half in 2004. |
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Adult basic education policy task force. Requires the existing
task force to make
recommendations to the 2002 legislature on an ABE funding formula for nondistrict
programs based on costs and revenues. |
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Direction to commissioner. Requires CFL to hire an ABE
director to oversee the state
ABE program who is different from the federal ABE director. |
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Appropriations. See spreadsheet. |
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TANF appropriations. See spreadsheet. |
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Revisor instruction. Requires the revisor to replace all references
to the "Minnesota
Foodshelf Association" with "Hunger Solutions." |
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Article 4: Libraries
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Establishment; purpose. Strikes language allowing regional
public libraries to apply for a
telecommunications access grant. |
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Advisory committee. Causes the advisory committee that
advises the staff of the
Minnesota library for the blind and physically handicapped to expire on 6/30/03. |
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Regional library telecommunications aid. |
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Subd. 1. Eligibility. Establishes regional library
telecommunications aid and
allows regional public libraries to apply for aid. Requires aid to be used for data and
video access and related costs to improve or maintain electronic access and connect
the library system with the information infrastructure administered by the department
of administration. Requires priority to be given to public libraries without access.
Requires regional public libraries to be officially designated by the commissioner as a
regional public library system to be eligible. Requires public library buildings that
receive aid to be open a minimum of 20 hours per week. Prohibits aid under this
section from being used to substitute for existing local funds that provide electronic
access, or equipment for library staff or the public, or local funds dedicated to other
library operations. Requires applications for aid to contain the following: |
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- the connections are adequate and employ an open network architecture;
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- that the connection is established through the most cost-effective
means;
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- that the connection and system will be connected to the state information
infrastructure through the department of administration;
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- the vendor selected will provide service from the library to a state
information infrastructure hub or through a more cost-effective connection
point;
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- the regional library system has filed an e-rate application; and
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- other information, as determined by the commissioner.
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Allows the library system to include costs associated with cooperative arrangements with
post-secondary institutions, school districts, and other governmental agencies.
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Subd. 2. Award of funds. Requires the commissioner to
develop application
and reporting forms and procedures for regional public library telecommunications
aid. Requires aid to be based on actual costs of connections and funds available for
this purpose. Requires the commissioner to make payments directly to the regional
public library system. |
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Subd. 3. Expiration. Makes this section expire on July 1,
2003. |
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Commissioner recommendation. Requires the commissioner to
recommend to the
legislature a permanent method for funding telecommunications access as part of the basic
support grants for public libraries. |
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Appropriations. See spreadsheet. |
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Repealer. Repeals regional library telecommunications
grants. Repeals state library rules
identified as obsolete in a 1999 CFL report. |
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