Bill Text: CA AB596 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Early learning and care: rate reform.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB596 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB596-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 21, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Reyes (Principal coauthor: Senator Limón) |
February 09, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to administer the federal Child Care and Development Fund, and requires the department to develop an expenditure plan that sets forth the final priorities for childcare, as required by federal law. Existing law also requires the department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to convene a working group to assess the existing quality standards for childcare and development and preschool programs and the methodology for establishing reimbursement rates for those programs, and requires the working group to provide recommendations relating to specified topics to a specified Joint Labor Management Committee, the Department of Finance, and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee no later than August 15, 2022.
This bill would require the department to apply to the United
States Department of Health and Human Services to amend the state’s current Child Care and Development Fund State Plan to change its current methodology for determining childcare development and preschool reimbursement rates to an alternative methodology that is consistent with the recommendations of the above-mentioned working group.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 8242 of the Education Code is amended to read:8242.
(a) The department, in collaboration with the State Department of Social Services, shall implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, which vary with the length of the program year and the hours of service.SEC. 3.
Section 8242 is added to the Education Code, to read:8242.
(a) The department, in collaboration with the State Department of Social Services, shall implement the alternative methodology for calculating subsidy payment rates for California state preschool program services provided under this chapter.SEC. 4.
Section 8252 of the Education Code is amended to read:8252.
(a) The Superintendent shall use the fee schedule developed in conjunction with the State Department of Social Services for families using full-day preschool services pursuant to this chapter, including families receiving services pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 8211.SEC. 5.
Section 10280 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:10280.
(a) The department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, shall implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, which vary with the length of the program year and the hours of service.SEC. 6.
Section 10280 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:10280.
(a) The department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, shall implement an alternative methodology for calculating subsidy payment rates for services provided under this part and California state preschool program services administered by the State Department of Education, in accordance with both of the following.SEC. 7.
Section 10290 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:10290.
(a) The department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, shall establish a fee schedule for families using preschool and child care and development services pursuant to this part including families receiving services pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 10271. It is the intent of the Legislature that the new fee schedule shall be simple and easy to implement.The department shall apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services to amend the state’s current Child Care and Development Fund State Plan to change its current methodology for determining childcare and development and preschool reimbursement rates to an alternative methodology that is consistent with the recommendations of the working group established pursuant to Section 10280.2.