BILL NUMBER: AB 304	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Price

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2009

   An act to amend Sections 8223 and 8224 of the Education Code,
relating to child care and development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 304, as introduced, Price. Child Care and Development Services
Act: 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 requires the reimbursement for alternative payment
programs to include the cost of child care paid to child care
providers, and past administrative and support services. The act
further requires the audits for local contracting agencies for
alternative payment programs to include specified factors, including
a sampling of the evidence of specified fees.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   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.  Section 8223 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   8223.  The reimbursement for alternative payment programs shall
include the cost of child care paid to child care providers plus the
administrative and support services costs of the alternative payment
program. The total cost for  administration  
administrative  and support services shall not exceed an amount
equal to 19 percent of the total contract amount. The administrative
costs shall not exceed the costs allowable for administration under
federal requirements.
  SEC. 2.  Section 8224 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   8224.  The audits for  such   local
contracting  agencies shall include, but not be limited to, a
sampling of the evidence of fees charged to, and paid by, families of
 non-subsidized   nonsubsidized  children,
the daily enrollment of subsidized children, the number of days of
service provided to subsidized children, the assessment and
collection of parent fees, and the availability of support services
to subsidized children and their families as needed pursuant to the
terms of the contract.