Saturday, March 14, 2009
Important Legislative Information...
...for family child care providers in Minnesota: A bill has been introduced and is titled “Family day care background checks required, and criminal history data access allowed.” The link below will take to the text of the bill. The bill number in the house is HF1543. In the senate the bill number is SF1413.
The next step is a hearing in both the house and senate committees. We don’t have the dates of the hearing at the time of this notification but believe the house will be as early as next week.
Representative Nora Slawik (Maplewood) is the author of the bill in the House with Jim Abler (Anoka), Kim Norton (Rochester), Patti Fritz (Faribault), Carolyn Laine ( Columbia Heights), Jeanne Poppe (Austin), Ryan Winkler (Golden Valley) and Andy Welti (Plainview) as co-authors.
Senator Claire Robling (Prior Lake) is the author of the bill in the Senate with Sharon Erickson-Ropes (Winona), Tony Lourey (Kerrick), and Tarryl Clark (St. Cloud) as co-authors.
Action: Maybe let your Representative and Senator who is NOT on the list above know the bill has been introduced and it is of interest to you.
Summary of the Bill:
Background checks will be transferred FROM the responsibility of a county to perform to the responsibility of the State via DHS (Department of Human Services).
As of the effective dates of the bill, providers will pay for the background checks the first time they are required and not again after that. We are looking at the language with July 1, 2009 as the starting date for new providers coming into the system and January 1, 2010 as the starting date for those renewing family child care licenses. We guess this has to do with the fact that counties have this anticipated income in their budget.
Background checks will use an on-line system with DHS with family child care providers applicants ‘collecting the information needed under subdivision 1 and forward it to the county agency using the commissioner’s online system.
The fee PER background check required will be $20.00 per study. This is a one-time fee to get into the state database. It does not state it in the bill but this fee is payable using credit card or debit card on-line.
The commissioner of public safety will develop and make available to the commissioner of human services a rap-back capability. See Section 14 which is new. This mandate to the commissioner of public safety will ensure that anyone in the state system who may have criminal history information in the future will be immediately ‘kicked back’ to DHS for action rather than not detected until the next background check in our current system.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1543.0.html&session=ls86
...for family child care providers in Minnesota: A bill has been introduced and is titled “Family day care background checks required, and criminal history data access allowed.” The link below will take to the text of the bill. The bill number in the house is HF1543. In the senate the bill number is SF1413.
The next step is a hearing in both the house and senate committees. We don’t have the dates of the hearing at the time of this notification but believe the house will be as early as next week.
Representative Nora Slawik (Maplewood) is the author of the bill in the House with Jim Abler (Anoka), Kim Norton (Rochester), Patti Fritz (Faribault), Carolyn Laine ( Columbia Heights), Jeanne Poppe (Austin), Ryan Winkler (Golden Valley) and Andy Welti (Plainview) as co-authors.
Senator Claire Robling (Prior Lake) is the author of the bill in the Senate with Sharon Erickson-Ropes (Winona), Tony Lourey (Kerrick), and Tarryl Clark (St. Cloud) as co-authors.
Action: Maybe let your Representative and Senator who is NOT on the list above know the bill has been introduced and it is of interest to you.
Summary of the Bill:
Background checks will be transferred FROM the responsibility of a county to perform to the responsibility of the State via DHS (Department of Human Services).
As of the effective dates of the bill, providers will pay for the background checks the first time they are required and not again after that. We are looking at the language with July 1, 2009 as the starting date for new providers coming into the system and January 1, 2010 as the starting date for those renewing family child care licenses. We guess this has to do with the fact that counties have this anticipated income in their budget.
Background checks will use an on-line system with DHS with family child care providers applicants ‘collecting the information needed under subdivision 1 and forward it to the county agency using the commissioner’s online system.
The fee PER background check required will be $20.00 per study. This is a one-time fee to get into the state database. It does not state it in the bill but this fee is payable using credit card or debit card on-line.
The commissioner of public safety will develop and make available to the commissioner of human services a rap-back capability. See Section 14 which is new. This mandate to the commissioner of public safety will ensure that anyone in the state system who may have criminal history information in the future will be immediately ‘kicked back’ to DHS for action rather than not detected until the next background check in our current system.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1543.0.html&session=ls86
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 11:10 AM 
