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House Journal: Page 2011: Tuesday, April 30, 1996

10.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, the department
shall expend not more than $20,000 to develop a system in
cooperation with child day care resource and referral services
under section 237A.26, in which volunteer evaluation teams are
utilized to review and inspect registered family day care homes
on behalf of the department.  The department shall also review
requirements for payment of publicly funded child day care,
including but not limited to the effects on providers and the
state budget of paying for child day care on a daily basis,
block-of-hours basis, or hourly basis.  The department shall
review the policy implications of encouraging family day care
home registration by providing an enhanced reimbursement for
family day care homes that are registered.  In addition, the
department shall develop a proposal for a disproportionate share
reimbursement adjustment for the child day care providers for
which 75 percent or more of the children provided care receive
public funding for the cost of their care.  The department shall
submit a report to the general assembly on or before January 15,
1997, which includes recommendations concerning the issues
required by this subsection.
11.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, $35,000 is
allocated for use by the united Mexican-American center in Des
Moines for the center's child day care program.
12.  A family who was eligible for and received state child care
assistance during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1995, shall
continue to receive the assistance in the succeeding fiscal year
for as long as the family continues to meet the eligibility
requirements in effect for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
1995.
13.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated to the
department of human services for state child care assistance in
1996 Iowa Acts, House File 2114, section 2, which remain
unexpended or unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall
not revert to the general fund of the state but shall remain
available for expenditure in the succeeding fiscal year.
Sec. 7.  JOBS PROGRAM.  There is appropriated from the general
fund of the state to the department of human services for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, and ending June 30, 1997,
the following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
used for the purposes designated:
For the federal-state job opportunities and basic skills (JOBS)
program, food stamp employment and training program, family
development and self-sufficiency grants, entrepreneurial
training, and implementing family investment agreements, in
accordance with this section:  
	 $	 12,601,592
1.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, $11,692,292 is
allocated for the JOBS program.  For family investment
agreements developed in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996,
the maximum time period for postsecondary education is limited
to two years.
2.  The department shall continue to contract for services in
developing, delivering, and monitoring an entrepreneural
training waiver program to provide technical assistance in
self-employment training to families which receive assistance
under the family investment program, contingent upon federal
approval of waiver renewal requests.
3.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, $129,985 is
allocated for the food stamp employment and training program.

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 2)

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