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AB 172 (Chan)
Universal preschool.
Status: 06/15/2005-Referred
to Com. on ED.
Location: Senate ED
Summary:
Existing law, the Child Care and Developmental Services Act,
establishes various full- and part-time programs for a
comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of
developmental services for children to age 14 and their parents.
Other existing law, the Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Program,
permits, until January 1, 2011, school districts to participate
in the program to provide kindergarten preparedness
opportunities to increase a child's readiness for school.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
to administer state preschool programs including part-time day
and preschool appropriate programs for pre-kindergarten children
3 to 5 years of age. This bill would make certain findings and
state the intent of the Legislature with regard to universal
preschool. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2007, on
state preschool programs, with certain requirements. Generally,
this bill will implement Prop. 82 if it passes in June.
AB 368 (Evans) CalWORKs.
Status: 06/09/2005-Referred
to Com. on HUMAN S.
Location: Senate HUM. Services
Summary:
Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and
other social services to needy families through the California
Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program
using federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
program, state, and county funds. This bill would, in
conformance with federal TANF requirements, require the
department and counties to provide various welfare-to-work
services and child care services, maintain a safety net for
children, encourage and assist family stability and unity, and
assist and serve eligible legal aliens. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 507 (Duacher) Trustline registry: Health studios.
Status: Com. on PUB. S. Held under submission.
Reconsideration granted.
Location: Senate PUB. S.
Summary:
Existing law authorizes a child care provider, as defined, and
any person providing in-home educational or counseling services
to a minor who possesses any one of 4 identification cards to
initiate a background examination process by submitting 2 sets
of fingerprints and a completed trustline application to the
Department of Justice. Existing law requires the State
Department of Social Services to establish a trustline registry
and, upon submission of the trustline application and
fingerprints, to enter into the trustline registry the
provider's name and other specified information. The bill would
require that a person under 18 years of age whose regular duties
are to care for children as an employee or volunteer within the
health studio's child day care center be supervised by a person
who is 18 years of age or older for whom the health studio has
obtained state and federal summary criminal history information
and requested subsequent arrest notification. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 633 (Benoit) Child day care facilities: licensing.
Status: 02/02/2006-Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
Location: Senate HUM. Services
Summary:
The California Child Day Care Facilities Act provides for the
licensing and regulation of child day care facilities, including
day care centers, by the State Department of Social Services.
The act makes it a misdemeanor to willfully or repeatedly
violate certain provisions or certain rules or regulations. This
bill would require each licensed child day care facility to make
accessible to the public a copy of any licensing report or other
public licensing document pertaining to the facility that
documents a facility visit, a substantiated complaint
investigation, a conference with a local licensing agency
management representative and the licensee in which issues of
noncompliance are discussed, or a copy of an accusation
indicating the department's intent to revoke the facility's
license. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1095 (Mullin) Child care: center-based programs:
schedule: staff training.
Status: 01/19/2006-In committee: Set, first hearing. Held
under submission.
Location: Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:
Under the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered
by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, children up to 13
years of age are eligible, with certain requirements, for child
care and development services, including supervision, health,
and support services, through full- and part-time programs
provided by public or private entities or agencies through local
contractual agreements with the Superintendent. This bill would
provide for one professional development day for child care
centers, require the Superintendent to establish guidelines for
center-based programs to provide enrolled families with a
schedule of days the center will be open and closed for
operation, and would require center-based programs to provide to
parents the schedule and notice of any changes, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions and other existing
laws. (Urgency bill)
AB 1144 (Harman) Playground safety standards.
Status: 09/06/2005-To
inactive file on motion of Senator Romero.
Location: Senate INACTIVE FILE Summary:
Existing law requires the State Department of Health Services,
in consultation with specified other agencies and entities, to
adopt regulations for the design, installation, maintenance,
inspection, supervision where appropriate, and training of
personnel involved in the design, installation, and maintenance,
of playgrounds either operated by public agencies or operated by
any entity where the playground is open to the public. This bill
would require the state department to adopt and amend, as
necessary, its playground safety standards in order to meet
current ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials)
standards for playground safety and other specified standards
that relate to the design, installation, inspection, and
maintenance of a playground and playground equipment. The bill
would require the replacement of equipment or modification of
components inside existing playgrounds to conform to the
requirements of specified regulations. This bill contains other
related provisions.
AB 1246 (Wolk) Preschool learning standards.
Status: 11/21/2005-In
committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: Senate APPR.
Summary:
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
to administer all state preschool programs and general child
care and development programs, with certain requirements. This
bill would require the Superintendent, by January 1, 2007, and
in consultation with specified individuals, to develop and adopt
preschool learning standards and to develop preschool curriculum
guides in 4 subject areas, as specified. The bill would
authorize the Superintendent to develop and adopt preschool
curriculum standards in additional content areas. The bill would
require that these learning standards and curriculum guides be
developed and adopted by the Superintendent using existing
funding and resources from the federal Child Care and
Development Fund. The bill would require the Superintendent
establish and convene a panel, as specified, every 7 years to
review the learning standards. The bill would require the
Superintendent to conduct regional hearings prior to modifying
learning standards after convening that panel in order to give
parents and other members of the public the opportunity to
comment on the standards.
AB 1282 (Mullin) Income taxes: credits: child care.
Status: 02/02/2006-Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Location: Senate REV. & TAX
Summary:
The existing Personal Income Tax and Corporation Tax Law provide
tax credits for startup expenses for child care programs or
constructing a child care facility, costs for child care
information and referral services, and costs paid or incurred
for contributions to a qualified care plan. Under existing law
these credits are only available for certain taxable years
beginning before January 1, 2007. This bill would extend the
credits to taxable years beginning before January 1, 2012. This
bill would also require the Franchise Tax Board to report to the
Legislature on the effectiveness of these credits, as specified.
This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1298 (Evans) Health and human services.
Status:, 08/25/2005-In committee: Set, first hearing.
Held under submission.
Location: Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:
Existing law creates various programs to provide child care and
health care services to persons who have limited incomes and
meet various eligibility requirements. These programs include
the Healthy Families Program administered by the Managed Risk
Medical Insurance Board, and the Medi-Cal program administered
by the State Department of Health Services, and the California
Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and
Children. This bill would require the California Health and
Human Services Agency to convene a workgroup by July 1, 2006, to
consider options that will make, to the greatest extent
possible, the application and eligibility factors in certain
programs transparent to the public and uniform statewide, and to
report no later than April 1, 2007, to the appropriate
committees of the Legislature for the establishment of aligned
policies and procedures in specified programs. This bill
contains other existing laws.
AB 1601 (Laird) Child care: provider registration:
background checks.
Status: 07/12/2005-In committee: Set second hearing.
Failed passage. Reconsideration granted.
Location: Senate HUM. S.
Summary:
Existing law establishes a process whereby any license-exempt
child care provider, defined as a person 18 years of age or
older who provides child care or supervision, or any person
providing in-home educational or counseling services to a minor,
and who is not otherwise required to be licensed, is authorized
to initiate a background examination to become a registered
trustline provider. This bill would require the State Department
of Social Services and the State Department of Education, by
January 1, 2006, to adopt and implement, in coordination with
the county welfare department and representatives from the
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network and the
California Alternative Payment Program Association, regulations
to require license-exempt child care providers who are paid for
their services through a child care subsidy program to submit a
trustline application within 14 days of the date the person
applied to become a registered trustline provider, with up to a
possible additional 14 days that may be granted at the time of
application at the option of the Alternative Payment Program or
the county welfare department. By imposing additional duties on
a county welfare department, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1800 (Laird) 2006-07 Budget.
Status: 01/23/2006-Referred
to Com. on BUDGET.
Location: Assembly BUDGET
Summary:
This bill would make appropriations for support of state
government for the 2006-07 fiscal year. This bill contains other
related provisions.
AB 2046 (Coto) Kindergarten.
Status: 02/23/2006-May be heard in committee March 25.
Location: Assembly Rules
Summary:
Existing law provides that school districts offering
kindergarten may maintain kindergarten classes at different
school sites for different lengths of time. This bill would
require that, commencing with the 2008-09 school year, school
districts offering kindergarten begin to implement full-day
kindergarten program. This bill would require that school
districts provide full-day kindergarten in at least 1/3 of the
schools that offer kindergarten. This bill would require all
schools offering kindergarten provide full-day kindergarten no
later than the 2010-11 school year. This bill would permit a
school to obtain a one-year exemption if its governing board
approves the postponement of the requirements no later than June
30 of the year in which the exemption is to occur. This bill
would require the governing board to submit the reasons for the
exemption to the State Department of Education. This bill would
provide that a minimum school day for full-day kindergarten is
230 minutes, as specified. This bill would provide that a school
district that has received a one-year exemption from the
full-day kindergarten requirement has a minimum school day of
180 minutes. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws.
AB2150 (McCarthy) Pre-Kindergarten Instruction
Status: 02/21/2006- May be
heard in committee March 25
Location: Assembly Rules
Summary:
Existing law provides the adopted course of study for
kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and requires a
school district to offer instruction on a variety of subjects.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to provide a cost-effective, 5-week intensive
academic program that prepares 4-year-old children for
kindergarten.
AB 2196 (Spitzer)
Child day care: information: registered sex offenders.
Status: 02/23/2006-May be heard in committee March 25.
Location: Assembly Rules
Summary:
The existing California Child Day Care Facilities Act provides
for the licensure and regulation of specified types of child day
care facilities and day care homes responsible for the regular
care of children. A willful violation of these provisions is a
crime. This bill would require each child day care facility, as
defined, and family day care home, as defined, that offers a
program of services for which there is a contract or agreement
between any parent or guardian and the day care facility or
family day care home for the regular care of a child, entered
into on or after January 1, 2007, to provide the parent or
guardian with specified information about registered sex
offenders that is made available to the public via a specified
Internet Web site maintained by the Department of Justice as
provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
AB 2403 (DeVore) Large family day care homes: permits.
Status: 02/23/2006-May be heard in committee March 25.
Location: Assembly Rules
Summary:
The California Child Day Care Facilities Act provides for the
licensing and regulation of child day care facilities, including
family day care homes, by the State Department of Social
Services. The act prohibits a city, county, or city and county
from prohibiting large family day care homes on lots zoned for
single-family dwellings, but requires a city, county, or city
and county to either (1) classify large family day care homes as
a permitted use of residential property for zoning purposes, (2)
grant a nondiscretionary permit to use a lot zoned for a
single-family dwelling to any large family day care home that
complies with certain local ordinances, or (3) require any large
family day care home to apply for a permit to use a lot zoned
for single-family dwellings. Under the 3rd possible action by a
city, county, or city and county, the act requires the permit to
be granted if the large family day care home complies with
certain local ordinances and the local government is required to
process the permit as economically as possible, with fees
charged for review not to exceed the costs of the review and
permit process. This bill, with respect to the 3rd possible
action, would prohibit any fee charged by the local government
for application review from exceeding the costs of the review
and permit process or $500, whichever is less. The bill would
also require the local government to grant or deny the permit
within 45 days of receiving the application, and would clarify
the factors to be considered in making its determination. The
bill would require the local government to provide an applicant
with written fee verification, within 45 days of the applicant's
request. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
AB 2611 (Spitzer) Family Day Care Homes: Insurance.
Status: 02/24/2006-May be heard in committee March 25.
Location: Assembly Rules
Summary:
Existing law requires certain family day care homes to be
licensed by the State Department of Social Services. Existing
law requires all family day care homes for children to maintain
either liability insurance or a bond. In lieu of this
requirement, the family day care home may maintain a file of
affidavits signed by each parent of an enrolled child that
states that the parent has been informed that the family day
care home does not have either liability insurance or a bond.
Existing law requires the department to review these affidavits
at each licensing inspection. This bill would subject a family
day care home that does not provide the department with proof of
insurance or bond or allow inspection of the affidavits to a
civil penalty of $50.
AB 2556 (Jones) Social services: childhood poverty.
Status: 02/24/2006-May be heard in committee March 26.
Location: Assembly Rules
Summary:
Existing law creates the Department of Finance, and specifies
the duties and responsibilities of that department. Existing law
authorizes the Joint Legislative Budget Committee to appoint a
Legislative Analyst and such other clerical and technical
employees as may appear necessary. This bill would declare that
it is a goal of the Legislature to reduce child poverty by
one-half by January 1, 2016, and to eliminate it entirely by
January 1, 2026. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 2608 (Committee on Human Services) Child care:
eligibility: termination of services.
Status: 02/27/2006-Read first time.
Location: Assembly Rules
Summary:
Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act,
provides child care and development services to children from
birth to age 13 and their parents through full- and part-time
programs. Existing law provides that, notwithstanding any other
law, in order to promote continuity of services, a family
enrolled in a state or federally funded child care and
development program whose services would otherwise be terminated
because the family no longer meets the program income,
eligibility, or need criteria may continue to receive child
development services in another state or federally funded child
care and development program if the contractor is able to
transfer the enrollment of the family to another program for
which the family is eligible, as specified, or to exchange the
existing enrollment of the family with the enrollment of a
family in another program, as specified. This bill would expand
that provision to include a child that receives child protective
services who is enrolled in a state or federally funded child
care and development program and whose services would otherwise
be terminated because the child has a new foster care placement.
AB 2881 (Mullin) State preschool programs.
Status: 02/27/2006-Read first time.
Location: Assembly Rules
Summary:
The Child Care and Development Services Act provides a
comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child
care and development services for children to 13 years of age
and their parents, including a full range of supervision,
health, and support services through full- and part-time
programs. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to administer all state preschool programs, as
specified, for pre-kindergarten-age children, in accordance with
specified funding priorities, and to contract with public or
private entities or agencies, as specified, to operate a state
preschool program. Existing law specifies that these programs
shall include, but not be limited to, part-day and preschool
appropriate programs for pre-kindergarten children 3 to 5 years
of age in educational development, health services, social
services, nutritional services, parent education and parent
participation, evaluation, and staff development. Existing law
defines "state preschool services" as part-day educational
programs for low-income or otherwise disadvantaged
pre-kindergarten-age children. This bill codify existing program
requirements for preschools and Title 5 centers and would
provide for "full-day" preschool. The bill would establish
separate provisions requiring the Superintendent to administer
part-day and full-day preschool programs, respectively. This
bill would require Family Child Care Home Education Networks be
notified of licensees who have been suspended or revoked. This
bill requires the Superintendent to make recommendations about
the reallocation of unexpended child development funds. (Urgency
bill)
AB 3029 (Laird) Public social services: CalWORKs and
the Food Stamp Program: re-determination and recertification
Status: 02/24/2006-Read first time.
Location: Assembly Rules
Summary:
Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and
other social services to needy families through the California
Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program
using federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
program, state, and county funds. Under existing law, the county
is required to annually re-determine eligibility for CalWORKs
benefits. Existing law additionally requires the county to
implement a recipient monthly reporting system, consistent with
federal law until the Director of Social Services makes a
specified declaration, at which time the county would be
required to re-determine recipient eligibility and grant amounts
on a quarterly basis, using prospective budgeting, and to
prospectively determine the grant amount that a recipient is
entitled to receive for each month of the quarterly reporting
period. Under existing law, a CalWORKs recipient is required to
report to the county, orally or in writing, specified changes
that could affect the amount of aid to which the recipient is
entitled. Existing law requires the quarterly re-determination
report form to be signed by the recipient under penalty of
perjury. This bill would repeal the quarterly re-determination
requirements and instead would impose similar requirements for a
semiannual re-determination. This bill would require the
re-determination report form to be signed under penalty of
perjury, thus creating a new crime and imposing a state-mandated
local program. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws.
SB 539 (Ashburn) Child day care: CalWORKs child care
program.
Status: 06/28/2005-Set first hearing. Failed passage.
Reconsideration granted.
Location: Assembly APPR.
Summary:
Under existing law the Child Care and Development Services Act
provides a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system
of providing developmentally appropriate activities for
children, parenting education, and parent involvement. This bill
would specify that payment to a child care provider shall not
commence until the State Department of Social Services confirms
that the child care provider is a registered child care
trustline provider or is exempted from trustline registration,
and would revise the scope of circumstances that would require
that the payment shall immediately cease. The bill would apply
these provisions only in counties in which the trustline
automated registration process and the LiveScan system are
operational, and would make additional changes to conform with
existing law. This bill contains other existing laws.
SB 638 (Torlakson) After School Education and Safety
Program.
Status: 02/21/2006-From committee with author's
amendments. Read second time. Amended.
Location: Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:
Existing law, the After School Education and Safety Program Act
of 2002, enacted by initiative statute, establishes the After
School Education and Safety Program to serve pupils in
kindergarten and grades 1 to 9, inclusive, at participating
public elementary, middle, junior high, and charter schools. The
act provides a formula for determining an amount to be
continuously appropriated from the General Fund to the State
Department of Education for purposes of the program. This bill,
additionally, would require that grants made to public
elementary, middle, and junior high schools under a specified
provision of existing law relating to community learning
centers, for the 2002-03, 2003-04, and 2004-05 fiscal years,
continue to be funded under the act in each subsequent fiscal
year immediately following the expiration of the grant made
under the specified provision of law, at the same award level as
the grant was funded under the specified provision of law for
the 2004-05 fiscal year, before any grants are funded under
certain provisions of the act, if the school applies for the
grant and is otherwise qualified under the act. This bill
contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
SB 1195 (Alquist) Child care: regional market rates.
Status: Set for hearing March 14.
Location: Senate HUM. Svs.
Summary:
The existing Child Care and Development Services Act establishes
a comprehensive system of child care and development services
for children to age 13 and their parents through full- and
part-time programs. Existing law defines the term "income
eligible" for purposes of determining the eligibility of a
family to participate in those programs. This bill would revise
that definition to require the annual adjustment of the monthly
income of a family to reflect changes in the Consumer Price
Index, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions
and other existing laws.
SB 1302 (Ashburn) Before and after school programs:
grant management: funding priorities. Status: Set for
hearing March 29.
Location: Senate ED.
Summary: Existing law establishes the 21st Century High
School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens program for
the purpose of creating incentives for establishing locally
driven after school enrichment programs that partner schools and
communities to provide academic support and safe, constructive
alternatives for high school pupils in the hours after the
regular school day. This bill would expand the purpose of the
program to include instruction and services designed to help
pupils pass the high school exit examination required for high
school graduation under certain provisions of existing law. This
bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
SB 1421 (Margett) Child care: CalWORKs recipients:
fraud.
Status: May be acted upon on or after March 25.
Location: Senate Rules,br> Summary:
Existing law requires that child care be provided in various
stages to recipients of benefits under the California Work
Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program.
Existing law provides that the first stage of child care begins
upon the entry of a person into the CalWORKs program. Existing
law provides that the second stage of child care begins when a
county determines that the work or approved work activity of the
recipient is stable or when a recipient is transitioning off of
aid and child care is available through a local stage two
program. Existing law provides that the third stage of child
care begins when a funded child care space becomes available for
the child or children of the eligible CalWORKs recipient. This
bill would require the State Department of Education, subject to
approval by the State Board of Education, to establish a
two-year pilot project in the County of Los Angeles to
investigate potential incidents of fraud regarding second and
third stage child care. The bill would require the county
welfare department of the County of Los Angeles to, upon
completion of the pilot project, prepare and submit to the
Legislature a report, as specified, regarding investigations
conducted pursuant to the pilot project, thereby imposing a
state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
SB 1534 (Alarcon) Coordinated low-income program
eligibility assistance.
Status: 02/23/2006. May be acted upon on or after March
25.
Location: Senate Rules
Summary:
Under existing law, various state entities administer programs
to provide financial assistance and public health and social
services to low-income individuals and families who meet the
eligibility requirements for those programs. This bill would
require the California Health and Human Services Agency, the
Public Utilities Commission, the State Department of Education,
and the Department of Insurance to work together to ensure that
individuals and families meeting equivalent eligibility
requirements for low-income programs administered by these
entities are concurrently enrolled in all available programs for
which they are eligible. The bill would authorize the entities
to work to create a single low-income program application to
cover all services afforded to low-income populations, and to
establish a Low-Income Advisory Board to implement the bill's
requirements.
SB 1600 (Kuehl) Child care.
Status: Read first time.
Location: Senate Rules
Summary:
Existing law authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction
to develop standards for the implementation of quality child
care programs and to contract for the provision of child care
and development services. This bill would require the Child
Development Division of the State Department of Education, on or
before July 1, 2008, to provide to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction a baseline assessment of the supply and demand for
subsidized and unsubsidized child care, as specified. The bill
would require the Superintendent, on or before March 1, 2009,
and every 2 years thereafter, to make recommendations to the
Legislature based on that assessment, as specified. This bill
contains other related provisions.
SB 1750 (Vincent) Child development centers: funding
and auditing.
Status: Read first time.
Location: Senate Rules
Summary:
Existing law establishes a system of child care and development
services for children up to 13 years of age and provides certain
requirements for the payment by the state for these child care
and development services. Existing law establishes reimbursement
rates, including requirements for their adjustment and
application. This bill would establish a role in the
reimbursement rate process for the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee by requiring the State Department of Education to
provide it with a list of new requirements for the operation of
child care development centers and any unusual industry-wide
increases in costs associated with the provision of center-based
child care by October 1, 2006, and annually thereafter, so the
Joint Legislative Budget Committee can determine whether to
appropriate funds for the adjustment of the reimbursement rate
for the next fiscal year. This bill specifies procedures and
auditing requirements for when centers are funded by multiple
funding sources. (Urgency measure)
Child Care Budget Hearings Scheduled
The Senate and Assembly have scheduled some of their Budget
subcommittee hearings of interest to the Child Development
community:
March 13 - Senate Sub #1 (Educ) - Child Development; Prop
49; 21st Century
Upon adj. Room 113
March 22 - Assembly Sub #1 (HHS) -
CalWORKs/Child Care (overview)
1:30 PM Room 444
March 30 - Senate Sub #3
(HHS) - Community Care Licensing
Upon adj. Room 4203
April 21 - Assembly Sub #1 (HHS) -
Dept of Education - Child Development
1:30 PM Room 444
May 4 - Senate Sub #3 (HHS) -
CalWORKs, including child care
Upon adj. Room 4203
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