HOUSE BILL No. 5326


     October 30, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Geiger, LeTarte, Lowe, Cropsey, Walberg, Green, McManus, Llewellyn, Richner, Birkholz, Jellema, DeVuyst, Horton and Gernaat and referred to the Committee on Human Services and Children.


        A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled

   "The social welfare act,"

   by amending section 57h (MCL 400.57h), as added by 1995 PA 223.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 57h.  (1) If the family independence agency determines

 2    that a recipient's failure to pay the child care provider from

 3    child care payments made to the recipient by the family indepen-

 4    dence agency constitutes money mismanagement, future child care

 5    payments shall be paid directly to the child care provider.

 6         (2) IF A RECIPIENT IS ELIGIBLE FOR CHILD CARE SERVICES AND

 7    REQUESTS REIMBURSEMENT FOR CHILD CARE IN AN UNREGISTERED CHILD

 8    CARE SETTING, THE FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY SHALL PROVIDE REIM-

 9    BURSEMENT FOR, OR MAKE DIRECT PAYMENTS UNDER SUBSECTION (1) TO

10    THE PROVIDER OF, CHILD CARE SERVICES IN THE UNREGISTERED HOME IF




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 1    THE HOME IS A PROVIDER OF RECORD UNDER SECTION 15(9) OF 1973 PA

 2    116, MCL 722.115.

 3         Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

 4    effect unless Senate Bill No. ________ or House Bill No. ________

 5    (request no. 02005'97 *) of the 89th Legislature is enacted into

 6    law.












































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