BILL NUMBER: AB 274	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2013

   An act relating to child care and development services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 274, as introduced, Bonilla. Child care and development
services: alternative payment programs.
   The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the
State Department of Education, provides that children up to 13 years
of age are eligible, with certain requirements, for child care and
development services. The act requires the department to contract
with local contracting agencies to provide for alternative payment
programs, and authorizes alternative payment programs for services
provided in licensed centers and family day care homes and for other
types of programs that conform to applicable law.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would simplify the documentation that child care
providers are required to submit to alternative payment programs,
authorize alternative payment programs to use technology that would
maximize service to clients and increase efficiency, and request the
Controller to pay child care contractors via direct deposit with
electronic funds transfers.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would do all of the following:
   (a) Simplify the documentation that child care providers are
required to submit to alternative payment programs, such as billing
sheets, attendance records, invoices, or other documentation of
certified need and hours of care provided.
   (b) Authorize alternative payment programs to use technology that
would maximize service to clients and increase efficiency, including,
but not limited to, the following:
   (1) Electronic signatures.
   (2) Paperless storage of documents.
   (3) Direct payments to providers.
   (4) Electronic communication to providers and parents.
   (c) Request the Controller to pay child care contractors via
direct deposit with electronic funds transfers.