Child care development fund.

WORKING DRAFT

ORIGINAL HOUSE

BILL

NO.
0025

ENROLLED ACT NO. 22, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTIETH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
2010 BUDGET SESSION

AN ACT relating to public assistance and social services; providing a schedule of eligibility and copayments under the child care and development fund; providing for grants to child care facilities under the program as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.
W.S. 42
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103 by creating a new subsection (f) is amended to read:

42
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103.

Provision of assistance and services; duties of department; burial assistance; state supplemental security income program.

(f)

In administering the child care and development fund provided for in the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant Act, and subject to approval of a state plan amendment by the administration of children and families of the United States department of health and human services, the department shall:

(i)

Annually by April 1 establish the hourly copayment required to be paid by parents for each eligible child, subject to the following:

(A)

Households with income at or below one hundred percent (100%) of the federal poverty level shall not be required to make a copayment;

(B)

For households with income above one hundred percent (100%) up to two hundred twenty-five percent (225%) of the federal poverty level, the copayment shall be calculated based on the following table. For each category of income in the first column, the parents' hourly copayment per child shall be determined by multiplying the annual income dollar amount for a family of two (2) that corresponds with the percentage of federal poverty level in the second column by the multiplier in the third column, then dividing by two thousand three hundred forty (2,340), the annual number of hours of child care required by a full
-
time working parent, and rounding the result to the nearest five cents ($.05):

Household Category

Federal Poverty

Multiplier

of Income

Level Income Factor

101% - 125%

113%

1.25%
126% - 150%

138%

2.00%
151% - 175%

163%

7
%
176% - 200%

188%

9
%
201% - 225%

213%

1
2
%

(C)

In determining eligibility, the department shall use the most recent federal poverty guidelines for the applicant's household size and income. In determining the hourly copayment for each eligible child, the department shall use the appropriate category of income in which the household qualifies
;

(D)

If the department determines that funding will be inadequate to implement the child care and development fund for the balance of the appropriation period, the department may increase copayments as calculated by subparagraph (B) of this paragraph by ten percent (10%) for households whose income is less than two hundred percent (200%) of the federal poverty level and by twenty percent (20%) for households whose income is equal to or above two hundred percent (200%) of the federal poverty level.

(ii)

From funds available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, any funds not needed for completion of the electronic benefit transfer system shall be used to
make grants for materials and supplies to child care facilities, provided however that a facility receiving a grant
shall agree
in writing
to provide
not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the facility's available care to persons determined eligible under paragraph (i) of this subsection, for a period commensurate with the amount of the grant as determined by rule and regulation of the department, or to
repay any monies granted under this
paragraph
to the state of Wyoming plus interest at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum
;

(iii)

If the department determines that eligibility for other social services programs changes in ways that require a change in the formula provided by paragraph (i) of this subsection, the department shall report the change together with recommended legislation to the join
t
labor health and social services interim committee.

Section
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This act is effective July 1, 2010.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the House.

Chief Clerk

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