Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/256M/full
Timestamp: 2020-01-19 23:18:16
Document Index: 628157682

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 11', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 2', 'art 1', 'art 1', 'art 4']

256M.41 CHILD PROTECTION GRANT ALLOCATION.
256M.42 ADULT PROTECTION GRANT ALLOCATIONS.
(a) "Vulnerable children and adults services" means services provided or arranged for by county boards for vulnerable children under chapter 260C, and sections 626.556 and 626.5561, and adults under section 626.557 who experience dependency, abuse, or neglect, as well as services for family members to support those individuals. These services may be provided by professionals or nonprofessionals, including the person's natural supports in the community. For the purpose of this chapter, "vulnerable children" means children and adolescents.
(b) Vulnerable children and adults services do not include services under the public assistance programs known as the Minnesota family investment program, Minnesota supplemental aid, medical assistance, general assistance, MinnesotaCare, or community health services.
1Sp2003 c 14 art 11 s 2,11; 2005 c 10 art 1 s 58; 1Sp2011 c 9 art 1 s 21; 2016 c 158 art 2 s 111
Subdivision 1.Formula for county staffing funds.
(a) The commissioner shall allocate state funds appropriated under this section to each county board on a calendar year basis in an amount determined according to the following formula:
(1) 50 percent must be distributed on the basis of the child population residing in the county as determined by the most recent data of the state demographer;
(2) 25 percent must be distributed on the basis of the number of screened-in reports of child maltreatment under sections 626.556 and 626.5561, and in the county as determined by the most recent data of the commissioner; and
(3) 25 percent must be distributed on the basis of the number of open child protection case management cases in the county as determined by the most recent data of the commissioner.
(b) Notwithstanding this subdivision, no county shall be awarded an allocation of less than $75,000.
Subd. 2.Prohibition on supplanting existing funds.
Funds received under this section must be used to address staffing for child protection or expand child protection services. Funds must not be used to supplant current county expenditures for these purposes.
The commissioner shall make payments under this section to each county on or before July 10 of each year.
Subd. 4.County performance on child protection measures.
The commissioner shall set child protection measures and standards. The commissioner shall require an underperforming county to demonstrate that the county designated sufficient funds and implemented a reasonable strategy to improve child protection performance, including the provision of a performance improvement plan and additional remedies identified by the commissioner. The commissioner may redirect up to 20 percent of a county's funds under this section toward the performance improvement plan. Sanctions under section 256M.20, subdivision 3, related to noncompliance with federal performance standards also apply.
2015 c 71 art 1 s 46; 1Sp2019 c 9 art 1 s 21,22
(a) The commissioner shall allocate state money appropriated under this section to each county board and tribal government approved by the commissioner to assume county agency duties for adult protective services or as a lead investigative agency under section 626.557 on an annual basis in an amount determined according to the following formula:
(1) 25 percent must be allocated on the basis of the number of reports of suspected vulnerable adult maltreatment under sections 626.557 and 626.5572, when the county or tribe is responsible as determined by the most recent data of the commissioner; and
(2) 75 percent must be allocated on the basis of the number of screened-in reports for adult protective services or vulnerable adult maltreatment investigations under sections 626.557 and 626.5572, when the county or tribe is responsible as determined by the most recent data of the commissioner.
(b) The commissioner is precluded from changing the formula under this subdivision or recommending a change to the legislature without public review and input.
The commissioner shall make allocations for the state fiscal year starting July 1, 2019, and to each county board or tribal government on or before October 10, 2019. The commissioner shall make allocations under subdivision 1 to each county board or tribal government each year thereafter on or before July 10.
Subd. 3.Prohibition on supplanting existing money.
Money received under this section must be used for staffing for protection of vulnerable adults or to expand adult protective services. Money must not be used to supplant current county or tribe expenditures for these purposes.
2019 c 60 art 4 s 30