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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
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