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DCYF policy bill: EBT contract term, licensing updates and school-attendance prevention response proposed
Summary
DCYF proposed policy changes to streamline EBT procurement, update licensing information disclosure, and shift school-attendance responses toward prevention rather than automatic child-protection investigations.
The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) presented its policy bill to the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and described four principal changes: a procurement exception for the state's electronic benefits transfer (EBT) contract, technical updates to the licensing information lookup (LIL) system, a clarification on the administration of an early childhood literacy grant, and child-welfare statute changes focused on prevention and planning.
Nick Dem (DCYF) told the committee that the EBT system is a critical automated system that distributes more than $1 billion in benefits annually to roughly 225,000 households. Because procuring EBT services is complex and can take two to three years, DCYF proposed allowing an initial five-year term with extensions up to 10 years total to avoid near-constant reprocurement…
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