208.044. 1. The division of family services shall provide child day care services to any person who meets the qualifications set forth at sections 301 and 302 of the Family Support Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-485).
2. The division of family services shall purchase the child day care services required by this section by making payments directly to any providers of day care services licensed pursuant to chapter 210, RSMo, or to providers of day care services who are not required by chapter 210, RSMo, to be licensed because they are providing care to relative children or no more than four children.
3. When a person who has been eligible and receiving day care services under this section becomes ineligible due to the end of the twelve-month period of transitional day care, as defined in section 208.400, such person may receive day care services from the division of family services if otherwise eligible for such services. Until October 1, 1992, participants eligible for income eligible day care services, as defined by the division of family services, will continue to receive such services in the same proportion as that provided in fiscal year 1989, subject to appropriation.
(L. 1989 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 2)Effective 7-27-89
Missouri General Assembly