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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 2249 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 4, by inserting after line 6 the 1 3 following: 1 4 "DIVISION ___ 1 5 STATE CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE 1 6 Sec. . Section 237A.1, Code Supplement 1999, is 1 7 amended by adding the following new subsection: 1 8 NEW SUBSECTION. 12A. "Poverty level" means the 1 9 poverty level defined by the most recently revised 1 10 poverty income guidelines published by the United 1 11 States department of health and human services. 1 12 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 237A.13 STATE CHILD CARE 1 13 ASSISTANCE. 1 14 1. A state child care assistance program is 1 15 established in the department to assist children in 1 16 families who meet eligibility guidelines and are 1 17 described by any of the following circumstances: 1 18 a. The child's parent, guardian, or custodian is 1 19 in academic or vocational training. 1 20 b. The child's parent, guardian, or custodian is 1 21 unemployed or looking for employment. 1 22 c. The child's parent, guardian, or custodian is 1 23 employed and the family income meets income 1 24 requirements. 1 25 d. The child's parent, guardian, or custodian is 1 26 absent for a limited period of time due to 1 27 hospitalization, physical illness, or mental illness, 1 28 or the parent, guardian, or custodian is deceased. 1 29 e. The child needs protective services to prevent 1 30 or alleviate child abuse or neglect. 1 31 2. Services under the program may be provided in a 1 32 licensed child care center, a registered group child 1 33 care home, a registered family child care home, the 1 34 home of a relative, the child's own home, an 1 35 unregistered family child care home, or in a facility 1 36 exempt from licensing or registration. 1 37 3. The department shall set provider reimbursement 1 38 rates on a county-by-county basis using a child care 1 39 rate reimbursement survey of each county and as 1 40 authorized in accordance with appropriations enacted 1 41 for payment of the reimbursement. The survey shall be 1 42 conducted at least every two years. The department 1 43 shall set rates in a manner so as to provide 1 44 incentives for an unregistered provider to become 1 45 registered. 1 46 4. The department shall not apply waiting list 1 47 requirements to any of the following persons: 1 48 a. Persons deemed to be eligible for benefits 1 49 under the state child care assistance program in 1 50 accordance with section 239B.24. 2 1 b. Children whose parent, guardian, or custodian 2 2 is absent or deceased. 2 3 c. Children who need protective services to 2 4 prevent or alleviate child abuse or neglect. 2 5 5. Based upon the availability of the funding 2 6 appropriated for state child care assistance for a 2 7 fiscal year, the department shall establish waiting 2 8 lists for state child care assistance in descending 2 9 order of prioritization as follows: 2 10 a. Families with an income at or below one hundred 2 11 percent of the federal poverty level whose members are 2 12 employed at least twenty-eight hours per week, and 2 13 parents with a family income at or below one hundred 2 14 percent of the federal poverty level who are under the 2 15 age of twenty-one years and are participating in an 2 16 educational program leading to a high school diploma 2 17 or the equivalent. 2 18 b. Parents with a family income at or below one 2 19 hundred percent of the federal poverty level who are 2 20 under the age of twenty-one years and are 2 21 participating, at a satisfactory level, in an approved 2 22 training program or in an educational program. 2 23 c. Families with an income of more than one 2 24 hundred percent but not more than one hundred forty 2 25 percent of the federal poverty level whose members are 2 26 employed at least twenty-eight hours per week. 2 27 d. Families with an income at or below one hundred 2 28 seventy-five percent of the federal poverty level 2 29 whose members are employed at least twenty-eight hours 2 30 per week with a special needs child as a member of the 2 31 family. 2 32 6. Nothing in this section shall be construed as 2 33 or is intended as, or shall imply, a grant of 2 34 entitlement for services to persons who are eligible 2 35 for assistance due to an income level or other 2 36 eligibility circumstance addressed in this section. 2 37 Any state obligation to provide services pursuant to 2 38 this section is limited to the extent of the funds 2 39 appropriated for the purposes of state child care 2 40 assistance. 2 41 Sec. . Section 239B.24, subsection 1, Code 2 42 Supplement 1999, is amended to read as follows: 2 43 1. The following persons are deemed to be eligible 2 44 for benefits under the state child care assistance 2 45 program administered by the department in accordance 2 46 with section 237A.13, notwithstanding the program's 2 47 eligibility requirements or any waiting list: 2 48 DIVISION ___ 2 49 COUNTY CLUSTER EMPLOYEE AND VOLUNTEER RECORD CHECKS 2 50 Sec. . NEW SECTION. 217.44 COUNTY CLUSTERS 3 1 EMPLOYEE AND VOLUNTEER RECORD CHECKS. 3 2 1. The department of human services shall conduct 3 3 criminal and child and dependent adult abuse record 3 4 checks of persons who are potential employees, 3 5 employees, potential volunteers, and volunteers in 3 6 county cluster offices and who are in a position 3 7 having direct contact with the department's clients. 3 8 The record checks shall be performed in this state and 3 9 the department may conduct these checks in other 3 10 states. If the department determines that a person 3 11 has been convicted of a crime or has a record of 3 12 founded child or dependent adult abuse, the department 3 13 shall perform an evaluation to determine whether the 3 14 crime or founded abuse warrants prohibition of the 3 15 person's employment or participation as a volunteer. 3 16 The record checks and evaluation shall be performed in 3 17 accordance with procedures adopted for this purpose by 3 18 the department. 3 19 2. In an evaluation, the department shall consider 3 20 the nature and seriousness of the crime or founded 3 21 child or dependent adult abuse in relation to the 3 22 position sought or held, the time elapsed since the 3 23 commission of the crime or founded abuse, the 3 24 circumstances under which the crime or founded abuse 3 25 was committed, the degree of rehabilitation, the 3 26 likelihood that the person will commit the crime or 3 27 founded abuse again, and the number of crimes or 3 28 founded abuses committed by the person involved. 3 29 3. The department may permit a person who is 3 30 evaluated to be employed or to participate as a 3 31 volunteer if the person complies with the department's 3 32 conditions relating to employment or participation as 3 33 a volunteer which may include completion of additional 3 34 training. 3 35 4. If the department determines that the person 3 36 has committed a crime or has a record of founded child 3 37 or dependent adult abuse which warrants prohibition of 3 38 employment or participation as a volunteer, the person 3 39 shall not be employed by or participate as a volunteer 3 40 in a department cluster office in a position having 3 41 direct contact with the department's clients." 3 42 #2. By renumbering as necessary. 3 43 3 44 3 45 3 46 HEATON of Henry 3 47 HF 2249.801 78 3 48 jp/cf
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