BILL NUMBER: AB 1199	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Section 8227.1 to the Education Code,
relating to child care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1199, as introduced, Brownley. Child care: centralized
eligibility lists.
   Existing law requires the alternative payment agency in each
county, to the extent that funding is made available, to design,
maintain, and administer a system to consolidate local child care
waiting lists so as to establish a countywide centralized eligibility
list. Existing law requires information collected for the
centralized eligibility lists to be reported to the Superintendent of
Public Instruction on an annual basis on the date and in the manner
determined by the State Department of Education.
   This bill would require the State Department of Education, to the
extent that funding is made available, to, by January 1, 2013,
conduct an evaluation for submission to the Legislature of the
centralized eligibility lists maintained and administered by the
alternative payment agency in each county to determine their success
in enabling families with child care needs to obtain information on
available child care programs and to obtain care, as specified.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8227.1 is added to the Education Code, to read:

   8227.1.  (a) To the extent that funding is made available for this
purpose through the annual Budget Act, the State Department of
Education shall, by January 1, 2013, conduct an evaluation of the
centralized eligibility lists maintained and administered by the
alternative payment agency in each county to determine their success
in enabling families with child care needs to obtain information on
available child care programs and to obtain care. The department
shall submit this evaluation to the relevant policy and fiscal
committees of the Legislature.
   (b) (1) The evaluation described in subdivision (a) shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
   (2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this
section is repealed on January 1, 2017.