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          Date of Hearing:   April 25, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                 AB 1991 (Smyth) - As Introduced:  February 23, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                              Human 
          ServicesVote:6 - 0  

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill expands the current child care licensure exemption for 
          K-12 public recreation programs to include programs operating 20 
          hours per week or less, and 14 weeks or less during a 12-month 
          period. 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Costs associated with this legislation would be minor and 
          absorbable.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  . The intent of this legislation is to expand the 
            hours of operation for public recreation programs to better 
            fit the needs of working parents who use those programs as 
            afterschool care by expanding the current licensure exemption 
            from programs operating 16 hours a week to programs operating 
            20 hours and programs operating 12 weeks per year to those 
            operating 14 weeks. The author argues, "Today, the challenges 
            associated with identifying quality and affordable after 
            school care, can be daunting for parents struggling to 
            accommodate work schedules, early release school days, teacher 
            work weeks, school holidays, and many other school calendar 
            demands.  With a limit of 16 hours per week, before and after 
            school programs run by public parks and recreation providers 
            are limited in their ability to provide for school-aged 
            children during non-school hours."  

           2)Related Legislation  . In 2011, AB 1312 (Smyth), a virtually 
            identical bill, was never heard in the Assembly Human Services 








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            Committee. 

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916) 
          319-2081