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Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 IL | Adopted 08/2012 | P-12 | Partially from Illinois Register: Defines "Gateways to Opportunity Registry" as a program administered by the department of human services to track and maintain education and training credentials of administrators and staff by establishing a profile in the registry of their educational attainment and professional development.
Requires all day care center staff, assistants and directors to become members of the Gateways to Opportunity Registry by September 1, 2012. Requires all new applicants for a day care's licensure or licensure renewal to show membership to the Registry at initial application. Requires newly hired staff serving children to become members of the Gateways to Opportunity Registry within 30 days after hire. Requires all new child care directors hired on or after July 1, 2017 to have a minimum of an associate's degree in child development or early childhood education. By December 28, 2012, requires all day care centers with cribs to have new cribs that meet federal safety standards. Pages 143-171 of 423: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume36_issue33.pdf
Title: 89 IL ADC 407.45, 50, 55, 60, 100, 130, 350
Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com
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| MA | Signed into law 08/2012 | P-12 | Defines family child care providers and family child care services.
Provides that family child care providers shall be considered public employees so that the commissioner may make deductions to compensate family child care providers pursuant to a rate structure for voucher and contracted payments. Asserts that family child care providers are not be eligible for benefits through the group insurance commission, the state board of retirement or the state employee workers' compensation program.
Prohibits family child care providers from engaging in a strike, or inducing, encouraging or condoning a strike, work stoppage, slowdown or withholding of services by any family child care provider.
Sets forth regulations for collective bargaining of family child care providers.
http://www.malegislature.gov/Bills/187/House/H03986
Title: H.B. 3986
Source: http://www.malegislature.gov/
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Provides relative to the income eligibility limits in the family fee schedule for state-funded child care services. Requires that the family fee schedule that was in effect for the 2011–12 fiscal year remain in effect for the 2012–13 fiscal year. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1001-1050/sb_1016_bill_20120627_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 1016 - Family Fee Schedule for State-Funded Child Care Services
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Adds exemptions for any kindergarten, school, or program licensed by the charter school review panel, the Hawaii Council of Private Schools, or any federal agency and certain child care programs conducted by the counties from child care licensing by the department of human services. Effective July 1, 2013. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/bills/SB2800_CD1_.pdf
Title: S.B. 2800
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Defines "school child," "child care," and other terms. Removes various references to preschool or school child program license renewal and to issuance of a two-year license to such a program upon successful completion of term of provisional license. Adds new language that the license issued after the provisional license remains valid unless revoked or the program ceases operations. Requires the department of education to annually inspect/investigate each licensed preschool and school child program; requires the department to notify each program of its results.
Page 39-44 of 592: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_Y.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Licensure of Preschool and Child Care Programs
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Requires that the "career pathways" alternative pathway for meeting child-care staff member or administrator requirements include both a framework to document formal education, and allow the child-care staff member or administrator to achieve a designation as an early childhood professional level 1 through 6. Requires framework to be approved by the director of job and family services. Defines "licensed child-care program." Repeals and rewrites requirements for child day-care center administrators and staff members. Amends annual inservice training requirements for each child-care staff member; provides exceptions. Replaces reference to "voluntary child day-care center quality-rating program" with reference to "tiered quality rating and improvement system" to be used for various purposes. Provides that effective July 1, 2020, publicly funded child care may be provided only by a provider rated through the tiered quality rating and improvement system. Directs the director of job and family services to adopt rules (1) establishing minimum requirements for child day-care centers, (2) governing the operation of type A family day-care homes, including parent cooperative type A homes, part-time type A homes, drop-in type A homes, and school-age child type A homes, (3) type B family day-care homes, and (4) in-home aides (for children receiving publicly funded child care in their own home). Requires that rules adhere to specified parameters. Directs the director of job and family services to provide notification of proposed rules to specified stakeholders. Authorizes the director to contract with a government entity or a private nonprofit entity for the inspection and licensure of type B family day-care homes; requires search of abuse and neglect reports upon receipt of an application for licensure as a type B family day-care home to provide publicly funded child care. Requires a child day-care center to have at least 35 square feet per child of usable indoor floor space regularly available for the child care operation, and an enclosed safe outdoor play space with at least 60 square feet per child using such space; provides exceptions. Requires a child day-care center to have at least two responsible adults available on the premises at all times when 7 or more children are in the center; establishes other child:adult ratios for child care centers. Establishes requirements for records to be maintained by the administrator of a child day-care center. Requires that parents/legal custodians of children enrolled in a child day-care center have unlimited access to the center during its hours of operation for the purposes for specified purposes.
Pages 196, 200, 207-210, 221-223, 226-229, 357-368, 371-372 of 401: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_SB_316_EN_N.pdf
Title: S.B. 316 - Child Care Quality
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| LA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Makes revisions to current law regarding standards for licensed day care centers, describes the duties of the Department of Children and Family Services relative to regulation of day care centers; and requires the guidance and input of the Louisiana Advisory Council on Child Care and Early Education regarding the rules and regulations of day care centers. Include procedures that allow a day care center to remedy certain deficiencies based on inspections.
/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=804822.
Title: H.B. 1016
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us
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| LA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Requires the state board of education to create a comprehensive and integrated network through which to manage and oversee all programs funded through state or federal resources that provide early childhood care or educational services.The board will establish a defintion of kindergarten readiness; establish performance targets for children under the age of three and academic standards for kindergarten readiness for three- and four-year olds; create a uniform assessment and accountability system; and coordinate with other relative state agencies with respect to the network's duties.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=792594
Title: S.B. 581
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us
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| NV | Adopted 03/2012 | P-12 | This regulation requires child care facilities that provide care for certain younger children to have an early care and education program. The regulation has numerous non-education related provisions. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/nac/NAC-432A.html
Title: NAC 432A.010, 012, 020, 050, 070, 080, 145, 170, 180, 190, 200, 210, 220, 280, 290, 304, 306, 308, 310, 326, 340, 350, 385, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 420, 425, 450, 460, 526, 528, 530, 532, 534, 536, 538, 580, 585, 685, 030, 146, 160, 522
Source: www.leg.state.nv.us
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Authorizes family child care providers to choose whether to be represented by a single provider organization designated pursuant to a specified petition and election process overseen by the Public Employment Relations Board or a neutral 3rd party designated by the board. Requires the state department of social services and the state department of education, with the assistance of specified state departments and agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors, to make specified information regarding individual family child care providers available to provider organizations and requires the provider organization requesting the information to bear the costs of collecting the information. Authorizes a certified provider organization to perform various functions, including meeting with state regulatory agencies and engaging in various types of negotiation on matters within a specified scope of representation with the department of personnel administration, in consultation with the superintendent and other state agencies that administer programs of publicly funded child care. Prohibits provider organizations from calling strikes and from interfering with, intimidating, restraining, coercing or discriminating against a family child care provider because the family child care provider joins or refuses to join a provider organization. Provides that the state also is subject to the latter prohibition.
Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_101_bill_20110920_enrolled.pdf
Governor's veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_101_Veto_Message.pdf
Title: A.B. 101
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IA | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Allows a grantee to direct the use of moneys received to serve any qualifying child ranging in age from three years old to five years oId, regardless of the age of population indicated on the grant request in its initial year of application. A grantee is encouraged to consider the degree to which the program complements existing programs and services for three-year-oId, four-year-old, and five-year-old at-risk children available in the area, including other child care and preschool services, services provided through a school
district, and services available through an area education agency.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/linc/84/external/govbills/HF645.pdf
Title: H.F. 645 - Multiple Sections
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Repeals a provision that required districts with a student membership above 5,000 and that does not provide child care (directly or by contract) for the district's school-age students to annually consider, during at least two public hearings, the need for and availability of child care before, after, or both before and after the school day and during school holidays and vacations for the district's school-age students. Repeals provision directing the Work and Family Policies Clearinghouse in the Texas Workforce Commission to distribute to each district with at least 5,000 students information describing model prekindergarten and school-age child care programs and explaining how a district may obtain funds through the federal Dependent Care Development Grant program or other grant programs. Repeals provision directing districts to distribute the information received from the clearinghouse to the public at a hearing. Page 17 of 19: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 8 - Repealing Child Care Provision
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| CA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Amends eligibility requirements for children to receive child care and development services. Existing law provides children must be at least 13 or younger. Under amendment, eligible children are:
--Age 10 or younger
--Children with exceptional needs
--Children 12 years of age or younger who are recipients of child protective services or at risk of abuse, neglect or exploitation
--Children 12 years of age or younger who are provided services during nontraditional hours
--Children 12 years of age or younger who are homeless
--Children who are 11 and 12 years of age, as funding permits.
From bill summary: Specifies that a child who is 11 or 12 years old and who is otherwise eligible for subsidized child care and development services, except for his or her age, must be given first priority for enrollment, and in cases of programs operating at full capacity, first priority on the waiting list for a before- or after-school program, and requires contractors to provide each family of an otherwise eligible 11- or 12-year-old with information about the availability of before- and after-school programs in the family's community. Removes provisions requiring contractors to report savings to the department. Amends definition of "income eligible" for purposes of participation in the Child Care and Development Services Act. Provides that an eligible family's adjusted monthly income is at or below 70% (formerly 75%) of the state median income. Provides for the reduction of child care and development services, and the disenrollment of specified families from subsidized child care services, in accordance with prescribed priorities.
Pages 15-21 of 81: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_bill_20110324_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 70 - Sec. 8201, 8208, 8263.1
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 10/2010 | P-12 | Creates a framework for child care providers to organize. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=S07451&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: S.B. 7451
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NY | Signed into law 08/2010 | P-12 | Requires at least one employee at a child day care facility or family day care home to be trained and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&bn=A7923&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 7923
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Requires teaching staff working in licensed child care centers as of October 1, 2010, to have their education certified by the NC Institute for Child Development Professionals (NCICDP) by July 1, 2012. Teaching staff hired to work in licensed child care centers after October 1, 2010, must have their education certified by the NCICDP within 60 days of their hiring. Also requires child care administrators to have their education certified with an Administrator Endorsement by July 1, 2012. Child care administrators hired after July 1, 2012, must have their education certified with an Administrator Endorsement within 60 days of their hiring." http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1119v4.pdf
Title: S.B. 1119
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Amends joint resolution creating a permanent legislative commission on child care in Rhode Island. Revises provisions related to commission membership http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law10/res10/res10372.htm
Title: H.R. 7826
Source: www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Encourages high schools to include a segment on prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma during a student's final year of study. Provides this segment should also suggest methods of calming crying infants, techniques for caregivers to use to calm themselves when confronted with an infant that is crying inconsolably, and a discussion on selecting responsible care providers for infant children.
Requires all employees and owners of a child-care center and family child-care providers to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education every five years on recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB285/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 285
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| OH | Adopted 01/2010 | P-12 | Revises rules relating to definitions http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/32/3301-32-01_PH_FF_A_RU_20100112_1441.pdf, staff http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/32/3301-32-02_PH_FF_A_RU_20100112_1441.pdf, health and safety http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/32/3301-32-06_PH_FF_A_RU_20100112_1441.pdf, licensure and monitoring http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/32/3301-32-11_PH_FF_A_RU_20100112_1441.pdf. Repeals and adopts new rules relating to complaint investigation http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3301/0/32/3301-32-12_PH_FF_N_RU_20100112_1441.pdf.
Requires staff to sign a non-guilty/non-conviction statement on an annual basis. Allows volunteers to be used as staff members if they pass a criminal background check, provide a signed non-guilty/non-conviction statement, and meet other criteria. Requires school child care programs to have emergency drill practice at least once per quarter during the school year and at least once during a summer program. Requires all programs to be inspected at least once every 12 months, and permits inspections to be unannounced.
Title: OAC 3301-32-01, -02, -06, -11, -12
Source: www.registerofohio.state.oh.us
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2009 | P-12 | Provides legislative findings and declarations on nutrition and health in children's early years. Requires the superintendent of public instruction to establish a minimum 12-month pilot program in which selected child care centers and day care homes participating in the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program must implement certain nutrition and physical activity standards in exchange for a higher state meal reimbursement. Requires the department of education to design and implement the program. Requires the department to contract with an independent agency within a year of the conclusion of the program to evaluate the implementation and outcomes of the pilot program, and for the evaluation results to be sent to senate and assembly education committees. Identifies components that must be included in the evaluation.
Provides that this program will only be implemented if the superintendent determines that non-General Fund funding sources, including, but not limited to, federal funding or grant sources, are available to
implement it. Establishes January 2015 repeal date. Bill: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0601-0650/ab_627_bill_20090910_enrolled.pdf Veto message: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0601-0650/ab_627_vt_20091012.html
Title: A.B. 627
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Requires school districts to adopt a procedure to comply with the Lawn Care Products Application and Notice Act and the Structural Pest Control Act. Requires licensed day care centers to ensure that products will not be applied to day care center grounds when children are present. Requires applicators to provide a copy of the approved pesticide registration label as well as the material safety data sheet. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB1769lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 1769
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Section 4: Repeals Section 8278 of the Education Code, which made child development appropriations, with the exception of funds appropriated for the After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnerships Program and for CalWORKs child care, available for expenditure for 3 years, and required the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish criteria and procedures for the reallocation of unearned contract
funds in the 2nd and 3rd years of availability, in accordance with specified priorities.
Section 5: Amends Section 8279.7, regarding the retention of qualified child care employees who work directly with children who receive state-subsidized child care services.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx4_2_bill_20090728_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2D - Sections 4 and 5
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Creates a committee to study publicly funded child care services, including the Early Learning Initiative as re-established by H.B. 1. Requires that the study include the following:
(1) The effects of changing the definitions of full-time and part-time care on:
(a) Children, families and providers of care, including the effects on the quality of care
(b) Number of children served and the availability/accessibility of subsidized care to caregivers with full- and part-time jobs
(c) Availability of full- and part-time care in areas with a high incidence of poverty
(d) Private pay rates
(e) Closure of centeres and center programs
(f) Loss of jobs in the child care industry.
(2) The effects of changes to the Early Learning Initiative on families and children, including:
(a) Distribution and use of program slots across the state
(b) Effect of mandatory participation in the voluntary child day-care center quality-rating program as described in Section 5104.30 on program quality
(c) Outcomes in terms of school readiness and other related factors for participating children.
Directs the committee to prepare a report of its findings by June 30, 2010 and to provide a copy of the report to the governor, speaker of the house and president of the senate, at which time the committee will cease to exist. Pages 2898-2899 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 309.40.70
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Defines "independent child care provider" as either a licensed provider who does not meet the definition of "employee" under the National Labor Relations Act, or a certified or licensed provider or in-home aide who is not a county or state employee. Authorizes independent child care providers to:
(1) Form, join, assist or participate in any representative organization of their choosing
(2) Engage in additional concerted activities for purposes of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection
(3) Be represented by a representative organization
(4) Bargain collectively with the state to determine wages, hours, terms, other conditions of employment within the state's control, the amendment of existing collective bargaining provisions, and enter into a collective bargaining agreement
(5) Present grievances and have them adjusted without the intervention of the representative organization, within the parameters of the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
Provides that a representative organization shall become the exclusive collective bargaining representative of all independent child care providers by either filing a request with the state to be recognized as an exclusive representative, or by being certified by an impartial election monitor as described in the governor's executive order 2008-02S for independent child care providers. Specifies the supporting evidence that must be included in a representative organization's request for recognition as the exclusive collective bargaining representative for independent child care providers in the state. Bars the state from recognizing another representative organization as the exclusive representative if a lawful written agreement, contract or memorandum of understanding between the state and another representative organization has been recognized by the state. Requires all matters pertaining to wages, hours, terms and other conditions of employment within the state's control and the continuation or amendment of any existing collective bargaining agreement to be subject to collective bargaining between the state and the exclusive representative. Provides that all of the aforementioned provisions must remain in effect until the end of the current governor's term in office as governor. Pages 3081-3084 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 741.01, 741.02, 741.03, 741.04, 741.05, 741.06 and 741.07
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Amends the definition of child care facility to include a facility providing primarily educational care for preschool children for a certain number of hours daily; provides for certification, registration, operation and regulation of preschool recorded programs; provides procedures for a preschool recorded program to obtain recording; requires a preschool recorded program operator to perform criminal background checks for all staff and volunteers and makes such persons mandated child abuse reporters. Chapter 633
http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb3400.dir/hb3487.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 3487
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Provides that public schools seeking voluntary child care facility licensure may use the same building standards for prekindergarten classrooms as for Kindergarten classrooms meeting certain requirements. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/PDF/H1031v5.pdf
Title: H.B. 1031
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| TX | Adopted 06/2009 | P-12 | Sets forth actions the workforce commission and local workforce development boards must take when a child care provider is placed on corrective or adverse action by the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). Describes board requirements regarding providers placed on evaluation corrective action. Requires boards to ensure that parents with children currently enrolled in commission-funded child care with the provider are notified in writing of the provider's evaluation status. Requires boards to ensure that parents choosing to enroll a child in commission-funded child care with a provider on evaluation status are notified of the provider's status with DFPS prior to enrolling the child. Adopted without changes to version published in March 13, 2009 Register (starting page 21 of 26): http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/pdf/backview/0313/0313prop.pdf
Title: 40 TAC 20.809.E.809.94
Source: www.sos.state.tx.us
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| NV | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Exempts licensed child care facility from certain regulations adopted by the State Board of Health or a local board of health governing standards for the construction of a food establishment and the equipment required in such establishments, regardless of whether the facility includes a kindergarten. Chapter 249.
http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/SB/SB231_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 231
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | A bill relating to early childhood care workforce development, child care capacity, and quality improvement for early childhood facilities and to provide an apppropriation. Requires the department to provide voluntary, progressive training opportunities leading to credentials and to provide supports for the early childhood care and education workforce. The department is required to implement a registry to track workforce participation. From the Fiscal Note: The Department currently provides training opportunities and support for early childhood care and education workforce. The Department has also implemented a child care registry as well as a voluntary quality improvement process through current contracts with the Child Care Resource and Referral organizations. Federal funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have been made available through federal action to stimulate the economy or address state fiscal recovery and will be used to expand or enhance these efforts to the extent allowed by the Act. http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JATN0400.pdf
Title: H.B. 1418
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2008 | P-12 | Recasts provisions of existing law as the State Preschool Program. Deletes campus child care and development programs and child abuse protection and prevention services from the definition of child care and development programs. Establishes minimum hours per day and days per year for part-day and full-day state preschool programs. Relates to fees for such services that are charged to families and fee schedules. Requires annual monitoring of funding utilized in child care and development programs. Chapter 308
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 2759
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2008 | P-12 | Creates the Commission on the Elimination of Poverty to develop a poverty elimination strategic plan to reduce extreme poverty in Illinois by 50% or more by 2015. In developing the overall strategic plan, and in working toward the goal of reducing extreme poverty in Illinois by at least 50% by 2015, requires the commission to address all of the following:
(1) Access to safe, decent and affordable housing
(2) Access to adequate food and nutrition
(3) Access to affordable and quality health care
(4) Equal access to quality education and training
(5) Dependable and affordable transportation
(6) Access to quality and affordable child care
(7) Opportunities to engage in meaningful and sustainable work that pays a living wage
(8) The availability of adequate income supports.
Requires that the strategic plan include specific policy and fiscal recommendations and a timeline for each stage of implementation
for each recommendation. For each recommendation, requires the commission to identify in measurable terms the actual or potential impact. Authorizes the commission to review and make comments and recommendations on existing or proposed programs, policies, administrative rules and statutes that have an
impact on poverty in Illinois and, in particular, people living in extreme poverty.
Provides for appointments, co-chairs and terms of members. Requires the state superintendent of education to serve on the commission as an ex officio member. Provides for a steering committee. Requires the commission to meet at least annually and the steering committee to meet at least quarterly. Requires the commission to submit an initial report on its activities and recommendations to the constitutional officers and the general assembly by March 1, 2009, and to adopt a strategic plan by January 1, 2010. Provides for administrative support of the commission by the department of human services. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB4369lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 4369
Source: www.ilga.gov/legislation
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Revises the definition of a day-care center to exclude certain private schools that provide K-12 education. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/hb1169.pdf
Title: H.B. 1169
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Provides that family resource and youth services centers must provide services to enhance a student's ability to succeed in school. Provides that the most economically disadvantaged students and families must receive priority status for receiving services. Provides that family resource centers must be located in or near every elementary school in the state in which at least 20% of the student body are eligible for free/reduced lunch. Provides family resource centers must promote identification and coordination of existing resources, and must include the following core components for each site:
(a) Full-time preschool child care for 2- and 3-year-old children
(b) After-school child care for children ages 4-12, with full-time child care during the summer and on other days when school is not in session
(c) Families in training, which shall consist of an integrated approach to home visits, group meetings, and monitoring child development for new and expectant parents
(d) Family literacy services or a similar program designed to provide opportunities for parents and children to learn together and promote lifelong learning
(e) Health services or referrals to health services, or both.
Provides that youth services centers must be located in or near each school in the state, except elementary schools, in which at least 20% of the student body are eligible for free/reduced lunch. Provides youth services centers must promote identification and coordination of existing resources, and must include the following core components for each site:
(a) Referrals to health and social services
(b) Career exploration and development
(c) Summer and part-time job development for high school students
(d) Substance abuse education and counseling
(e) Family crisis and mental health counseling.
Establishes a grant program for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to award grants to eligible school districts to establish or maintain family resource or youth services centers. Provides that a family resource or youth services center that receives funding for one year or more is not ineligible for funding based solely on the percent of the student body eligible for free/reduced lunch unless the percent of the student body eligible for free/reduced lunch is below 20% for 5 consecutive years. Specifies that a school district may not operate a family resource center or a youth services center that provides abortion counseling or makes referrals to a health care facility for the purpose of seeking an abortion.
Directs the division of family resource and youth services centers to promulgate administrative regulations to implement requirements for applications for continuation funding of a family resource or youth services center and establish a continuing education program for coordinators and staff. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/SB192/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 192
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| MD | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Increases the required preservice and continued training requirements for registered family child care providers to help improve the quality and professionalism of home-based child care services. MARYLAND 11169
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/subtitle_chapters/13A_Chapters.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.14.04.02, .14
Source: MD Rules/Regs
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| MD | Adopted 11/2007 | P-12 | Increases the required preservice and continued training requirements for child care center staff and change the nomenclature of child care center staff to make it consistent with the terminology used by most other states. MARYLAND 11170
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/subtitle_chapters/13A_Chapters.htm
Title: COMAR 13A.14.02.02, .18, .21-.23, .25-.27
Source: MD Rules/Regulations
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2007 | P-12 | Authorizes family child care providers to choose to be represented by a single provider organization. Provides that the designated provider organization is authorized to operate substitute child care provider pools if those pools are not available in the community, market family child care programs, offer business development programs, meet with state regulatory agencies, and engage in negotiations with public and private entities that administer state- funded subsidies for child care services.
Veto message: http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1164_vt_20071014.html
Title: A.B. 1164
Source: http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1164_bill_20070924_enrolled.pdf
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Implements a voluntary quality rating system to increase the quality of early care and education of school-age child care.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law07/law07141.htm
Title: H.B. 5862
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2007 | P-12 | Provides a commission to study ways to increase the quality of child care services in the state by identifying and implementing best practices and by addressing current limits on access to high-quality care based on a parent's ability to pay.
http://janus.state.me.us/legis/LawMakerWeb/externalsiteframe.asp?ID=280023298&LD=755&Type=1&SessionID=7
Title: H.B. 576
Source: Maine Legislature
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | The bill provides for early childhood care transition assistance. This bill allows the department to establish a statewide system to build systematic early childhood workforce voluntary training, which may include distance learning formats, a professional registry, certificates, and specialization.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HBBF0700.pdf
Title: S.B. 2186
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Declares that the purpose of this act is to provide tools to promote the hiring of suitable providers of child care by: (1) Providing parents with access to information regarding child care providers; (2) Providing child care providers with known information regarding applicants' sexual misconduct or other abusive conduct; (3) Providing parents with child care licensing complaint histories regarding child care providers; and (4) Requiring background checks of applicants for employment in any child care facility licensed or regulated under current law.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bill%20Reports/Senate%20Final/5317-S.FBR.pdf
Title: S.B. 5317
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Creates the Emergency Preparedness for Child Care Facilities Act; requires the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate efforts to share with the state Department of Emergency Management a list of all licensed child care facilities and all known license-exempt facilities, to identify emergency shelters in proximity of those facilities and coordinate efforts to notify emergency agencies of the number of children in those facilities. (Act No. 816)
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/ftproot/bills/2007/public/HB2211.pdf
Title: H.B. 2211
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Requires the state to provide staff development grants to child caring facilities to assist the owners or staff of those facilities to obtain
continuing education training in early childhood development or related topics; also requires the state to provide technical assistance to
child caring facilities on best practices for quality operational improvements and business management services of child caring facilities; requires the state to develop and distribute materials to inform parents about choices available in childcare programs and how to choose an appropriate child caring facility; finally, requires the state to contract for delivery of voluntary family strengthening educational
programs to promote family involvement in children's development. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/Enroll/HB0095.pdf
Title: H.B. 95
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/bills.htm
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| WV | Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2006 | P-12 | Amends rules regarding informal and relative family child care home registration requirements. http://www.wvsos.com/adlaw/proposed/78-20er.pdf
Title: Title 78, Series 20
Source: http://www.wvsos.com/csr/
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12
Postsec. | The purpose of this Act is for schools whose student population includes at least twenty per cent or one hundred students from military families as determined by the department of education to provide for the following:
(1) Additional staff;
(2) Child care services; and
(3) Vocational training and retraining. Makes an appropriation for these.
Requires the department of education to consult with the Joint Venture Education Forum to establish a priority listing of public schools that are impacted by a large population of military dependent students. In the development of the priority listing, requires the department to consider establishing priority schools with a twenty per cent or more or one hundred or more population of dependent military students.
Requires the University of Hawaii to establish a program to allow readmission to military members who have been deployed. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessioncurrent/bills/sb1394_sd1_.htm
Title: S.B. 1394
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| SC | SIGNED BY GOVERNOR 06/2005 | P-12 | Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Act addresses circumstances relating to children and lead poisoning. Revises requirements. Affects child care facilities. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/prever/3582_20050526.htm
Title: H.B. 3582
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Relates to the services included within the definition of early childhood services. Adds the following definition: "Drop-in care" means the care of children on a one-time, occasional, or unscheduled basis to meet the short-term needs of families.
http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-text/FAAF0400.pdf
Title: S.B. 2304
Source: StateNet
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| AL | Emergency Rule Adoption 11/2004 | P-12 | Establishes rules allowing special education services staff employed by the Alabama Department of Education or local school system to provide critical special education services to children in licensed child care centers without meeting requirements for child care center staff, provided the staff meet requirements of the local school system or the department of education. Facilitates compliance with state and federal laws. Increases the availability of special education services, such as speech therapy and physical therapy, to children enrolled in licensed child care centers.
Title: AAC 660-5-26-.01
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Vetoed 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Child Development Division of the Department of Education to provide to the Superintendent of Public Instruction a baseline assessment of the supply and demand for subsidized and unsubsidized child care, to be updated every two years. Requires the division to convene a task force to develop and submit to the Legislature a Child Care and Development Workforce Development Plan. Requires the division to conduct a biennial assessment of the reimbursement rate system for subsidized child care. Requires the division to conduct specified
activities as part of the assessment, including developing and implementing a pilot program, to test a reimbursement rate system that uses a uniform regional base rate based on market rates drawn from the regional market rate survey for infants, preschool children, and schoolage children. Requires the division to develop criteria for enhancements to the reimbursement rates paid to subsidized child care providers for demonstrated quality program components. Requires the superintendent, based on the assessment prepared by the division, to provide specified recommendations to the Legislature to improve the rate setting procedures of the division. Requires the recommendations to include
recommendations on the impact of the reimbursement rate pilot program and recommendations regarding the reimbursement rate quality enhancements proposed by the division.
Establishes the Option for Expanded Business Opportunities for the purpose of authorizing family child care providers to select agents to represent them to act collectively on specified matters, including negotiating for and purchasing group benefits, representing family child care
providers in disputes or enforcement proceedings, and negotiating and entering into contracts with public and private entities that administer state funded public subsidies for family child care services. Authorizes a family child care provider to select an agent to represent the provider and deems an agent a certified agent upon verification by the State Mediation and Conciliation Services that the agent has written authorization for representation from 20% of all licensed family providers in the state. Requires the State Department of Education to adopt regulations governing the conduct of a certified agent and authorizes the superintendent to order a modification or discontinuance of conduct authorized by the bill if the superintendent determines that the disadvantages attributable to a potential reduction in competition demonstrably outweigh the benefits of the conduct. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1851-1900/sb_1897_bill_20040827_enrolled.html
Veto message: http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/vetoes/AB_1897_veto.pdf
Title: S.B. 1897
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with entities organized under law to operate family child care home education networks that support educational objectives for children in such licensed homes that serve families eligible for subsidized child care. Requires the family child care home education network programs to provide specified services, including age and developmentally appropriate activities for children, parenting education, and parent involvement. Provides that its provisions do not impose any new requirement on a family child care home education network, as specified.
Under existing law the Child Care and Development Services Act provides services to children to age 14. Changes the maximum age for eligibility in the program to 13, and modifies the definition of ''parent'' under the Child Care and Development Services Act, as specified.
Incorporates additional changes in Section 8208 of the Education Code proposed by AB 2525http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf (chaptered 9-29-04), to be operative only if AB 2525 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective January 1, 2005, and this bill is chaptered last. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_379_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 379
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Changes the maximum age for program eligibility to 13, and modifies the definition of ''parent'' under the Child Care
and Development Services Act. Deletes provision providing a formula for determining whether a family is eligible to receive services under the Child Care and Development Services Act based on the family's income. Deletes provision that children who were receiving services as of January 1, 1998, in certain child care programs, whose family income is above the eligibility level may continue to receive services so long as they continue to meet criteria that applied to the program on December 31, 1997.
Existing law provides that the assigned reimbursement rate for alternative payment programs includes the cost of child care plus the
administrative cost of the alternative payment program. This bill imposes a limit on administrative costs for the alternative payment program.
Existing law contains various provisions relating to the implementation of the plan developed by the Commission on Child Care and Development Services and the expansion of child care and development services. This bill deletes these provisions as they have been superseded by existing law. The existing law requires the State Department of Education to disburse augmentations to the base allocation for the expansion of child care and development programs, with certain requirements. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Deletes provision requiring the State Department of Education to take certain actions in administering child care and child development programs, including, but not limited to, establishing a review group composed of certain representatives and to submit all policy memoranda and guidelines to the review group 30 days prior to their issuance, and establishing an in-service training program for professional staff. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2501-2550/ab_2525_bill_20040929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2525 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov/
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the Helping Heroes Child Care Program to provide child care to families who have one or more parents deployed to Iraq by the armed services and who meet eligibility criteria. Requires that the program be administered by the Department of Education in conformance with the laws regulating alternative payment programs. Makes the implementation of the program contingent upon the availability of specified funding. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_2201-2250/ab_2205_bill_20040825_enrolled.html
Title: A.B. 2205
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| IL | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Amends the Department of Human Services Act; deletes a provision that includes beginning and ending dates for the operation of a Great START(Strategy to Attract and Retain Teachers) program; deletes provisions requiring a working committee of the Child and Development Advisory Council of the Department of Human Services to make certain recommendations concerning the Great START program by October 1, 2000. http://www.legis.state.il.us/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=093-0711
Title: S.B. 2171
Source: Illinois Legislative web site
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2004 | P-12 | Re-creates the Child Care and Development Trust Fund within the Agency for Workforce Innovation without modification; carries forward current balances and continues current sources and uses thereof. http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1022er.html&Directory=session/2004/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1022
Source: Florida Legislative Web site
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| NH | Signed into law 05/2004 | P-12 | Adds representatives of Early Learning New Hampshire to the advisory committee on child care and removes obsolete member references. http://gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2004/SB0416.html
Title: S.B. 416
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Concerns child care programs; concerns programs exempted from certain provisions; includes professional services rendered for mentally or physically impaired students as mandated; includes tutoring to improve school performance. http://www.azleg.state.az.us/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=/legtext/46leg/2r/laws/0023.htm
Title: H.B. 2031
Source: Arizona Legislative Web site
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| SD | Signed into law 02/2004 | P-12 | Establishes a task force to improve the quality and availability of child care and early learning opportunities.
Title: S.B. 117
Source: StateNet
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| UT | Rule Adoption 02/2004 | P-12 | Establishes the eligibility criteria for new sponsors to recruit participants to child care centers and day care homes in unserved areas. Provides criteria for recruiting facilities and new and renewing institution performance standards. UTAH REG 26829 (SN)
Title: R277-724
Source: StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2003 | P-12 | Revises existing law that provides for the licensure of family day care homes including large and small day care homes under certain conditions. Allows one of the conditions for licensure to be met if at least one child is enrolled in and attending kindergarten or elementary school and a 2nd child is at least 6 years of age. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0501-0550/ab_529_bill_20031010_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 529
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2003 | P-12 | Specifies a school district or county office of education that provides childcare pursuant to the California School Age Families Education (Cal-SAFE) Program is eligible to apply for and receive funding from the Childcare Facilities Revolving Fund. Requires a school district or county superintendent of schools to also enter into formal partnership agreements, as necessary, with community-based organizations to provide child care and developmental services. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1668_bill_20030925_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1668
Source: California Legislative Web site
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| ME | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Amends the Educators for Maine Program; provides financial assistance for postsecondary education to undergraduate students or students pursuing postbaccalaureate certification who demonstrate academic achievement and interest in teaching, speech pathology or child care. Added the categories of speech pathology and child care. Postbaccalaureate students must be pursuing a course of student that will lead to certification in one of the above fields. Caps Educator for Maine loans at $20,000 in total, or any funds that result in making the total financial aid award exceed the cost of attendance. An individual who received that individual's first program loan after January 1, 2000 may cancel the total amount of the loan by completing one year of return service by working in a child care facility. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/billtexts/LD134001-1.asp
Title: H.P. 985 (LD 1340)
Source: StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Adds prekindergarten or after school child care programs to the provision governing subsidized childcare services.
Title: S.B. 76
Source: StateNet
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Establishes oversight committee to assess all prekindergarten or school readiness programs run by any public or private school or Head Start program in the state, as well as any school readiness program operated by any licensed childcare center in the state. Specifies what data every assessment must collect, including teacher qualifications, child eligibility criteria. In light of the findings of the assessment, the oversight committee must make recommendations on the need for additional early childhood programs and measures needed to guarantee that early childhood programs in operation in Mississippi meet or surpass recognized standards of excellence. The oversight committee must report to the legislature on these findings and recommendations by January 15, 2004. Requires the oversight committee to cause to be developed a single assessment instrument to gather and synthesize the required data into a single report.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/html/SB/2600-2699/SB2636SG.htm
Title: S.B. 2636
Source: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us
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| NM | to governor 03/2003 | P-12 | House Joint Memorial 12 requests that the Interagency Coordinating Group (ICG) study the
alignment of early care education programs in New Mexico, establish a framework for a statewide
comprehensive and universal system of preschool programs and fully delineate the procedures
and methodology necessary to implement such a framework; and that the group report its
finding to the Legislative Education Study Committee by November 2003. Link to fiscal note: http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/03%20Regular/firs/hjm012.pdf
Title: H.J.M. 12
Source: http://legis.state.nm.us
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| AK | Rule Adoption 11/2002 | P-12 | Pertains to child care licensing and facility operation and management. Expands the requirements regarding removal of employees or volunteers from contact with children. Requires certain books be available for parent use. Relates to life and fire safety. Clarifies fire extinguisher maintenance requirements, and the requirements of cribs for infants. Provides an exemption from the definition to certain attendants of children with special needs. http://www.educ.state.ak.us/regs/filed/993-03-0071CCLFurtherClarificationsFINAL.pdf
Title: 4 AAC 62.120; 4 AAS 62.310; 4 AAC 65.510, 65.540, 65.990
Source: StateNet
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| AZ | Signed into law 08/2002 | P-12 | Requires department's statewide child care resource and referral system to include a child care home provider registry to provide information about registered child care home providers. Adds to duties of department's child care resource and referral system, specifying that system must help child care providers and programs become registered as child care home providers; collect provider information for the referral database that includes the licensure, certification and registration status of providers; and provide outreach services that include public awareness information to parents and providers about the child care home provider registry and the benefits of using the registry or becoming registered. Specifies other required components of child care home provider registry. See section 21: http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/45leg/2r/laws/0241.htm
Title: Omnibus--H.B. 2213
Source: http://www.azleg.state.az.us
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | This Act requires day care centers operating part of the day with 13 or more children to be licensed by Child Care Licensing. Currently only those day care centers operating part of the day with 12 or fewer children are so licensed.
Title: S.B. 233
Source: http://www.legis.state.de.us/billtracking
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12 | Creates the School-Readiness Child Care Subsidization Program on and after January 1, 2003, which program offers three-year school-readiness subsidies to county departments of social services to increase the school readiness of children age 5 and younger enrolled in the Colorado child care assistance program or enrolled at a child care facility. A county department is eligible to apply for funds if it has in its boundaries one or more neighborhood elementary schools rated "low" or "unsatisfactory" in the state accountability system. Creates a voluntary school-readiness rating system to evaluate the services provided by a child care provider to prepare children for elementary school. County-level pilot site agency community is designated as recipient of subsidation applications. http://www.leg.state.co.us/2002a/inetcbill.nsf/fsbillcont/F453E914F9BF456F87256B22004BB389?Open&file=1297_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1297
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2002 | P-12
Community College | Increases from 40 to 45 clock hours the introductory training course requirement for operators of large family child care homes and for child care personnel and operators of family day care homes; provides for community college credit in early childhood education for such coursework. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb1550er.html&Directory=session/2002/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
Title: S.B. 1550
Source: Lexis-Nexis
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | An Act relating to children; amending 10 O.S. 2001, Section 401, which relates to the Oklahoma Child Care Facilities Licensing Act; requiring specified entities to develop a single child care licensure process for certain use; clarifying formatting; and providing an effective date.
Title: S.B. 1584
Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Establishes a Child Care Quality Incentive Grant Program in the Department of Human Resources; authorizes the Department to award grants as an incentive for child care providers to improve the quality of care being provided to children; makes it a misdemeanor to make or cause specified false statements.
Title: H.B. 986
Source: LexisNexis
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | Provides that regulations for licensed child care centers adopted by the state board of social services or the child day-care council shall not require the membership, affiliation or accreditation services of any single accreditation or certification agency.
Title: H.B. 1208
Source: http://legis.state.va.us/
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2002 | P-12 | Extends the expiration date of the law establishing the board for the coordination of child care regulation and the terms of board members; permits the board or a subcommittee of the board to meet any time; requires the board to establish a subcommittee to make recommendations concerning revisions to the child care system and the regulation of preschools. http://www.in.gov/serv/lsa_billinfo?document=HE/HE1214.1.html&year=2002
Title: H.B. 1214
Source: www.in.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 12/2001 | P-12 | Provides for child day care to eligible families during breaks in activities; provides child day care for up to a month in certain cases; provides that a social services district may use the funds allocated to it from the block grant to provide child care assistance to families with certain income who are attending a post secondary educational program and working at least 17 1/2 hours per week.
Title: S.B. 4861
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TN | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Establishes and implements a mandatory child care agency report card system and a separate and voluntary child care agency rated licensing system. Child care providers that participate in the voluntary 3-star ratings system will receive an increase in the rate of payment for the care of low-income children. Payments will increase by 5%, 15% and 20%, respectively, for each star earned.
Title: S.B. 1667; same as H.B. 1390
Source:
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Provides that a child care ministry that receives child care development voucher may only be required by a local Step Ahead Council to meet child care standards; specifies that a local Step Ahead Council may not require child care ministries to meet additional standards unless those additional standards are approved by the General Assembly or the Division of Family and Children; requires applicant for certain child care license to meet certain standards.
Title: S.B. 110
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Establishes Teacher Education and Compensation Helps (T.E.A.C.H) pilot projects to assist teachers in retaining employment in the field of child care. Authorizes the commission, in establishing and administering the program, to consult with any other early childhood teacher pilot project. Requires the commission to operate the pilot program in at least three locations throughout the state, one of which is to be an urban community, one of which is to be a rural community, and one of which is to be a community in the region of the state that borders the United Mexican States. To be eligible to participate in the pilot program, a teacher must be employed in a child care program that has a provider agreement with a local workforce development board to serve families that receive subsidized child care services.
Title: S.B. 1294
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site
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| TX | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Requires each Head Start or Early Head Start program provider to coordinate with the Texas Workforce
Commission and local workforce development boards regarding subsidized child care services. Requires the coordination required by this section to include coordinating to ensure, to the extent practicable, that full-day, full-year child-care services are available to meet the needs of low income parents who are working or participating in workforce training or workforce education. Authorizes the coordination to also include certain other activities.
Title: S.B. 1293
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Appropriates a sum to the State Department of Education for specified child care purposes. Declares appropriations for these purposes to be General Fund revenues appropriated to school districts.
Title: S.B. 1703
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with a nonprofit organization that has staff with expertise in financing and capital expansion, are knowledgeable about the child care field, and have the ability to develop and implement a plan to increase the availability of financing to renovate, expand, and construct child day care facilities.
Title: A.B. 2778
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 09/2000 | P-12 | Exempts child care centers operated by a non-profit organization in a public school building from radon testing and certain other requirements.
Title: S.B. 982
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 08/2000 | P-12 | Relates to existing law which states the intent of the Legislature to establish a comprehensive, continuous, community-linked, and school-based program, to be known as the Cal-SAFE Program, that focuses on youth development and dropout prevention for pregnant and parenting pupils and on child care and development services for their children.
Title: S.B. 541
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Establishes the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps scholarship program to help low-wage early childhood staff obtain further training;relates to health care assistance for children (Medikids); provides for dental benefits under the Florida Kidcare program; provides for assistance to families in evaluating summer recreation and day camp programs; increases family income limits for subsidized child care; relates to federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funding; relates to child care facility licensing.
Title: S.B. 212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2000 | P-12 | Establishes the Judith P. Hoyer Early Childhood Care and Education Program, a grant program for early child care and education centers and education enhancement for the development of collaborative approaches for the delivery of full-day early care and education and family support services; designates the Maryland Department of Education as the agency supervising the grant program.
Title: H.B. 1249, S.B. 1249
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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