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Relating to state child care assistance, including income eligibility and waiting list guidelines and copayment requirements and providing an effective date
Topics:Health careFamilies & human servicesChild care
Same legislation: SF 163
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 31, 2019
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to state child care assistance, including income eligibility and waiting list guidelines and copayment requirements. The state child care assistance program is administered by the department of human services (DHS). Based upon the availability of the funding appropriated for state child care assistance for a fiscal year, the DHS establishes waiting lists for state child care assistance in descending order of prioritization. Under current law, one of the waiting list requirements relates to families with an income of more than 100 percent but not more than 145 percent of the federal poverty level whose members, for at least 28 hours per week in the aggregate, are employed or are participating at a satisfactory level in an approved training program or educational program.
Read the full explanation
The bill increases this waiting list income eligibility limit from 145 percent to 185 percent. The bill directs DHS to amend its administrative rules to provide income eligibility for state child care assistance, according to family size for children needing basic care, to families whose nonexempt gross monthly income does not exceed 185 percent of the federal poverty level. The bill also directs DHS to adjust the state child care assistance copayment schedule in incrementally increased amounts for such families whose nonexempt gross monthly income does not exceed 200 percent of the federal poverty level. The administrative rules adopted by DHS shall be effective July 1, 2019. The bill provides DHS shall submit a notice of intended action to the administrative rules coordinator and the administrative code editor for adoption of rules not later than 60 days after the effective date of the bill for the adoption of rules. The bill requires the department to additionally submit emergency rules adopted by the same date. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
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