Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Minnesota House Bill HF1276 Compare Versions

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1	1	1.1 A bill for an act
2	2	1.2 relating to children; modifying Northstar Care for Children benefits for children
3	3	1.3 under the age of six and children transferred into Northstar Care for Children;
4	4	1.4 amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 142A.609, subdivision 5; 142A.611,
5	5	1.5 subdivisions 2, 4.
6	6	1.6BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
7	7	1.7 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 142A.609, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
8	8	1.8 Subd. 5.Alternate rates for preschool entry and certain transitioned children.(a)
9	9	1.9A child who entered or enters the Northstar kinship assistance or adoption assistance
10	10	1.10components of Northstar Care for Children while under the age of six shall must receive
11	11	1.1150 percent of the amount the child would otherwise be entitled to under subdivisions 3 and
12	12	1.124.
13	13	1.13 (b) The commissioner may also use the 50 percent rate for a child who was transitioned
14	14	1.14into those components through declaration of the commissioner under section 256N.28
15	15	1.15142A.612, subdivision 7.
16	16	1.16 (c) A child who is in the care of a relative or placed within the placement preferences
17	17	1.17under section 260.773, and who enters the Northstar kinship assistance or adoption assistance
18	18	1.18components of Northstar Care for Children while under the age of six must receive the full
19	19	1.19amount under subdivisions 3 and 4.
20	20	1.20 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 142A.611, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
21	21	1.21 Subd. 2.State share.The commissioner shall must pay the state share of the maintenance
22	22	1.22payments as determined under subdivision 4, and an identical share of the pre-Northstar
23	23	1Sec. 2.
24	24	REVISOR DTT/ES 25-0310002/05/25
25	25	State of Minnesota
26	26	This Document can be made available
27	27	in alternative formats upon request
28	28	HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
29	29	H. F. No. 1276
30	30	NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
31	31	Authored by Hicks and Kotyza-Witthuhn02/20/2025
32	32	The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Children and Families Finance and Policy 2.1Care foster care program under section 260C.4411, subdivision 1, the relative custody
33	33	2.2assistance program under section 142A.65, and the pre-Northstar Care for Children adoption
34	34	2.3assistance program under chapter 259A. The state share must include the cost of eliminating
35	35	2.4the alternate rates for preschool entry into kinship assistance or adoption assistance under
36	36	2.5section 142A.609, subdivision 5, paragraph (c).
37	37	2.6 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 142A.611, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
38	38	2.7 Subd. 4.Nonfederal share.(a) The commissioner shall must establish a percentage
39	39	2.8share of the maintenance payments, reduced by federal reimbursements under title IV-E of
40	40	2.9the Social Security Act, to be paid by the state and to be paid by the financially responsible
41	41	2.10agency.
42	42	2.11 (b) These state and local shares must initially be calculated based on the ratio of the
43	43	2.12average appropriate expenditures made by the state and all financially responsible agencies
44	44	2.13during calendar years 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. For purposes of this calculation,
45	45	2.14appropriate expenditures for the financially responsible agencies must include basic and
46	46	2.15difficulty of care payments for foster care reduced by federal reimbursements, but not
47	47	2.16including any initial clothing allowance, administrative payments to child care agencies
48	48	2.17specified in section 317A.907, child care, or other support or ancillary expenditures. For
49	49	2.18purposes of this calculation, appropriate expenditures for the state shall must include adoption
50	50	2.19assistance and relative custody assistance, reduced by federal reimbursements.
51	51	2.20 (c) For each of the periods January 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016, and fiscal years 2017,
52	52	2.212018, and 2019, the commissioner shall must adjust this initial percentage of state and local
53	53	2.22shares to reflect the relative expenditure trends during calendar years 2011, 2012, 2013,
54	54	2.23and 2014, taking into account appropriations for Northstar Care for Children, the cost of
55	55	2.24eliminating the alternate rates for preschool entry into kinship assistance or adoption
56	56	2.25assistance under section 142A.609, subdivision 5, paragraph (c), and the turnover rates of
57	57	2.26the components. In making these adjustments, the commissioner's goal shall must be to
58	58	2.27make these state and local expenditures other than the appropriations for Northstar Care for
59	59	2.28Children to be the same as they would have been had Northstar Care for Children not been
60	60	2.29implemented, or if that is not possible, proportionally higher or lower, as appropriate. Except
61	61	2.30for adjustments so that the costs of the phase-in and the cost of eliminating the alternate
62	62	2.31rates for preschool entry into kinship assistance or adoption assistance under section
63	63	2.32142A.609, subdivision 5, paragraph (c), are borne by the state, the state and local share
64	64	2.33percentages for fiscal year 2019 must be used for all subsequent years.
65	65	2Sec. 3.
66	66	REVISOR DTT/ES 25-0310002/05/25