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SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD)

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SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 314 creates a child care provider pilot program for participants of the New Mexico works program. The pilot program would run from July1,2000 to July 1,2002.

Significant Issues

The bill specifies that CYFD would select at least five rural areas in the state that do not have licensed or registered child-care providers as sites for the pilot programs.

The bill will allow CYFD to pay child care providers to care for children while their guardians are performing a qualifying activity as defined by the New Mexico Works Act. Under the pilot program these select providers may be related and live in the same home as the children.

The bill states that the child care provider cannot be related closer than or beyond the second degree of consanguinity or affinity.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

House bill 314 does not contain an appropriation. The CYFD is funded in House Bill 2 for child care programs in the amount of $67 million of which approximately $30.0 million in TANF funding is used in the implementation of the New Mexico Works Act to provide child care for all TANF participants.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

The CYFD currently administers the program and implementing this pilot program would have minimal impact to the department.

TECHNICAL ISSUES

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