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Legislative Update!
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Child Care and Development Legislation (As of March 8, 2010) |
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Child Care Resource & Referral
Child Care Subsidy
Community Care Licensing
Preschool, Kindergarten, & Early Learning
School-age Child Care
Other Bills
Child Care Resource & Referral:
AB 2463 (Brownley) – Child Care Resource & Referral
The intent of this legislation is to provide clarifying language
in the education code related to child care resource & referral
services. This bill would require a child care resource and
referral program to provide training and workshops relating to
child care services, community resource assistance, and to
collaborate with and assist other community agencies in
planning, coordinating, and improving child care. The bill would
require a resource and referral program to provide basic child
care referrals, as defined, at no cost. The bill clarifies the
Child Care Initiative Project- Quality Plan and State Plan and
would establish the Growing, Learning, Caring Project to foster
and improve the quality of child care in all settings, including
child care settings that are exempt from licensing requirements.
It requires local child care R&R programs to provide data on
child care supply and demand to the State Network for statewide
data compilation. The bill would require resource and referral
programs to review and process trustline applications for
in-home or license-exempt home-based child care providers who
are being paid through state-funded child care subsidies. The
bill would delete provisions authorizing a resource and referral
program to provide short-term respite care.
Status: Introduced
Network position- Sponsor
Child Care Subsidy:
AB 315 (DeLeon)- Child Care Provider Payment Schedule (Sponsored
by the United Child Care Union)
Requires the SDE to consider developing guidelines for
Alternative Payment Programs on specific matters. In developing
regulations, they shall consider, timeliness of payments, due
process and complaint process, completion of attendance records,
manner of issuing payments, timeliness of notification when a
child is no longer eligible to receive subsidies and
administrative recourse and penalties for late payments to
providers. If a penalty is assessed against an AP, it can only
use administrative and support service funds.
Status: Senate
Network position- Monitor
SB 244 (Wright)- Child Care and Development: High Risk Children
Priority
Requires the CDE to study (by December 31, 2010) the feasibility
of providing priority enrollment in high quality child care
programs for children 0-5 who are in foster care; were formerly
in foster care; at risk of being neglected, abused or exploited,
homeless, or have a parent who is in a correctional or
residential treatment facility. Status: Assembly Appropriations.
Network Position: Monitor and work with sponsors and other
statewide organizations
SB 1099 (Correa)- Foster Care: Child Care Funding
Allows counties to use child care and development funds received
from CDE as a match for foster care funds used to provide
subsidized child care for children receiving protective
services, foster children, or children at risk for abuse and
neglect.
Status: Senate Human Services
SB 1225 (Yee) - San Francisco individualized county child care
subsidy plan
Extends the operation of San Francisco’s individualized child
care subsidy plan until June 30, 2016, and would require the
city and county to phase out the plan by January 1, 2018.
Requires the city and county to demonstrate an increase in
earned child days of enrollment by the end of the first fiscal
year of operation. Their plan must be submitted to and approved
by the Child Development Division of the Department of
Education. The bill would require the city and county, on or
before December 31, 2016, to submit a final report to the
Legislature that summarizes the impact of the plan.
Status:
Education
Community Care Licensing:
AB 1979 (Adams) - Child day care centers: Inspections
Requires the Department of Social Services- Community Care
Licensing to make annual unannounced visits of all licensed
child day care centers.
Status: Assembly Human Services 3/23
AB 2084 (Brownley) - Child day care facilities: Nutrition
Requires a licensed child day care facility to follow specified
guidelines relating to the provision of beverages (milk, juice &
water).
Status: Assembly Human Services
SB 892 (Alquist)- Community Care Facilities- Spot Bill
Makes technical, non-substantive change to the California
Community Care Facilities Act.
Status: Introduced
SB 1116 (Huff)- Heritage Schools
Defines heritage schools as programs that serve school age
children that attend a full-day public or private school and
educates children to speak a foreign language and learn about a
foreign culture and customs. Heritage schools would be required
to comply with fingerprinting and criminal record checks
applicable to private schools and to file an affidavit with the
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Status: Senate Education
SB 1159 (Maldonado) - Community care facilities – Spot Bill
Makes non-substantive, technical changes to Community Care
Licensing.
Status: Introduced
Preschool, Kindergarten & Early Learning:
AB 1683 (Torres) – Preschool Priority
Gives priority for state preschool to children who have a parent
under the jurisdiction or who were under the jurisdiction of the
dependency or delinquency court within the last six months.
Status: Assembly Education
AB 1967 (Mendoza) - Pupil admission: kindergarten and first
grade
Changes the required birthday for kindergarten and first grade
admission to November 2 for the 2012-13 school year, October 2
for the 2013-14 school year, and September 2 for the 2014-15
school year and each school year thereafter. To compensate
school districts for the loss in average daily attendance
resulting from this change, the bill would increase funding to
the schools.
Status: Assembly Education
AB 2252 (Torrico)- Universal Preschool- Spot Bill
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to provide universal
preschool to all 3 and 4-year old children in California funded
through an inheritance tax.
Status: Introduced
AB 2553 (Brownley) - Child development services: school
readiness
Requires CDE to collect data that will assess the school
readiness of children entering kindergarten and that reflect all
of the major domains of child development.
Status: Introduced
AB 2592 (Buchanan) - Early Learning Quality Improvement
System-Spot Bill
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
relating to the Early Learning Quality Improvement System.
Status: Introduced
SB 1381 (Simitian) - Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Program
Extends the operative date of the Kindergarten Readiness Pilot
Program to the January 1, 2015.
Status: Senate Education
School-Age Child Care:
AB 434 (Block)- After School Program: Matching Funds
Reduces the amount of cash or in-kind local funds required by
each ASES program for the 2009-10 and 20010-11 fiscal years to
15% including the local match that can be fulfilled in part by
providing facilities space. Authorizes the cost of a program
site supervisor selected under the ASES Program Act of 2002 to
be included as direct services, provided that at least 85% of
the site supervisor’s time is spent at the program site.
Status:
Senate Appropriations.
Network position- Monitor
AB 1831 (Solorio) – After School: English Learners
Amends the After School Education and Safety Program (ASES) Act
of 2002 to allocate 24% or $132 million (whichever is greater)
every year for after school programs for English language
learners to assist with academic tutoring and to improve English
language skills.
Status: Introduced
AB 1876 (Torlakson) - Education: After school Education and
Safety Program: volunteers
Provides, under the After School
Education and Safety Program, that volunteers may be used to
conduct non-supervisory duties in these after school programs.
Status: Assembly Education
AB 2178 (Torlakson) - After School Education and Safety Program
To the extent consistent with federal and state privacy laws,
would allow school districts to provide After School Education
and Safety Programs with specified data.
Status: Assembly
Education
SB 798 (DeSaulnier)- 21st Century Learning Centers
Revises the criteria and priorities for allocating funds as of
January 1, 2010. Revises the percentage of funds required to be
allocated and establishes per-day rates for the operation of
year-round programs, school-year programs and summer or
intersession programs. Requires the department to periodically
review the appropriateness of percentages for allocation of
funds and authorize them to adjust the percentages after
consulting the Advisory Committee on Before and After School
Programs.
Status: Assembly Education
Network position- Monitor
SB 898 (Ashburn)- After School: Minimum Grant
Establishes a minimum grant of $30,000 for after school programs
at schools with a regular enrollment of less than 30 pupils and
a minimum grant of $50,000 for schools with a regular enrollment
of 30 – 74 pupils and a $16,5000 minimum grant to schools for
before school programs with a regular enrollment of less than 30
pupils.
Status: Senate Education
Other Bills:
AB 2323 (Torlakson) - Child development contracts
Authorizes a contractor to carry forward certain reimbursable
expenses (not to exceed 10% of MRA) and unearned funds (up to
20%) to a subsequent contract issued by the department to
continue the same program or services, subject to specified
requirements. (Sponsored by CCDAA)
Status: Introduced
SB 1109 (Cox)- First 5 Abolishment-Urgency bill
Subject to the approval of voters, this bill would abolish the
state and county First 5 Commissions. It would redirect the
allocation of any further revenues for the Medi-Cal and Healthy
Families programs. Additionally, it would allocate any
unencumbered funds from county commissions to county offices of
education (50%) and the county (50%). Any unencumbered funds
from the state commission would be redirected to the state
general fund.
Status: Senate Health
SB 1126 (Liu) - Early childhood education course requirements
Requires the Trustees of the California State University, and
request the Regents of the University of California, in
conjunction with the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, to develop articulation and transfer program
agreements for early childhood education and related majors.
Requires those agreements to include a waiver of course
requirements for those majors for completion of similar courses
at a community college and to count those courses toward the
completion of minimum upper division requirements for those
majors.
Status: Senate Education
SCR 44 (Corbett)- Regional Market Rate Structure (RMR)
Requests the legislature hold one or more joint hearings on the
RMR with the participation of CDE by April 10, 2010 to review
the methodology and implementation of the RMR. Requests
Stakeholder involvement.
Status: Assembly Education
SCR 47 (De Saulnier)- Child Care Funding: Workforce
States the intent of the Legislature to increase funding for
child development centers and preschools to provide staff with
adequate salaries and benefits and provide adequate resources to
support program quality.
Status: Assembly Education
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