Portability pool.

(a) The commissioner shall establish a pool of up to five percent of the annual appropriation for the basic sliding fee program to provide continuous child care assistance for eligible families who move between Minnesota counties. At the end of each allocation period, any unspent funds in the portability pool must be used for assistance under the basic sliding fee program. If expenditures from the portability pool exceed the amount of money available, the reallocation pool must be reduced to cover these shortages.

(b) deleted text begin To be eligible for portable basic sliding fee assistance, deleted text end A family that has moved from a county in which it was receiving basic sliding fee assistance to a county with a waiting list for the basic sliding fee program must:

(1) meet the income and eligibility guidelines for the basic sliding fee program; and

(2) notify deleted text begin the new county of residence within 60 days of moving and submit information to the new county of residence to verify eligibility for the basic sliding fee program deleted text end new text begin the family's previous county of residence of the family's move to a new county of residence new text end .