BILL NUMBER:  SB 548
  VETOED	DATE: 10/11/2015




To the Members of the California State Senate:

Senate Bill 548 establishes training requirements for both licensed
and license-exempt family child care providers and requires both the
Department of Social Services and the Department of Education to
collect and deliver providers' personal information to provider
organizations, upon their request.

I am returning SB 548 without my signature, because the bill
prematurely anticipates what will be necessary to comply with the new
federal Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014.

California will need to be in compliance with an abundance of new
requirements, not all of which are clear at this juncture. The
Department of Education is currently working with stakeholders to
update our state's plan, to be submitted by March 1, 2016, after
further federal guidance is issued.  Public input will be sought
prior to the finalization of the plan.

As part of that work, I will direct the State Advisory Council on
Early Learning and Care to work with the department and review how
the state can best position itself to meet those requirements
efficiently and effectively, including the delivery of any training.


Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.