FIRST REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES GRISAMORE (Sponsor), YATES, RICHARD, PRATT, KRAUS, DUSENBERG, MOORE, TILLEY, BAKER (25), DONNELLY, BRUNS, STREAM, BRANDOM, SANDER, SATER, SCHAD, LeVOTA, HODGES, SCAVUZZO, GRILL, DOUGHERTY, ZIMMERMAN, FALLERT, CURLS, PAGE, CORCORAN, STORCH, VILLA, NORR, WALTON, LOW (39), TALBOY, TODD, SHIVELY, QUINN (9), HARRIS (110), OXFORD, SCHIEFFER, LAMPE, NOLTE, ROORDA, WITTE, PEARCE, HOBBS, SCHARNHORST, DEEKEN, NANCE, MUNZLINGER, FRANZ, DIXON, SCHLOTTACH, McGHEE, BIVINS, GUEST, SILVEY, SUTHERLAND AND SCHNEIDER (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 30, 2007 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 208, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to child care subsidies.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 208, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 208.046, to read as follows:
208.046. 1. The children's division shall promulgate rules to become effective no later than July 1, 2008, to modify the income eligibility criteria for any person receiving state-funded child care assistance under this chapter, either through vouchers or direct reimbursement to child care providers, as follows:
(1) For incomes of less than one hundred thirty percent of the federal poverty level for the applicable family size, such persons receiving state-funded child care assistance under this chapter shall receive full child care subsidy benefits;
(2) For incomes of one hundred thirty percent to one hundred eighty-five percent of the federal poverty level for the applicable family size, such persons receiving state-funded child care assistance under this chapter shall receive child care subsidy benefits reduced proportionately based on income in excess of one hundred thirty percent of the federal poverty level for the applicable family size;
(3) For incomes in excess of one hundred eighty-five percent of the federal poverty level for applicable family size, such persons shall be ineligible for child care subsidy benefits.
2. Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the imposition of a fee by the division to child care subsidy benefit recipients based on gross income and family unit size and based on a child care sliding fee scale established by the division. The sliding scale fee may be waived for children with special needs as established by the division.
3. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, RSMo, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo, and, if applicable, section 536.028, RSMo. This section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2007, shall be invalid and void.
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