Bill Text: CA SB1384 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Partnership for Long-Term Care Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 487, Statutes of 2016. [SB1384 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1384-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1384	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Liu

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 8231 of the Education
Code, relating to child care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1384, as introduced, Liu. Child care and development services:
children of migrant agricultural worker families.
   Existing law, for purposes of migrant child care and development
programs, defines a migrant agricultural worker family as a family
that has earned at least 50 percent of its total gross income from
employment in fishing, agriculture, or agriculturally related work
during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of
application for child care and development services. Existing law
requires the children of these families to be enrolled in child
development programs on the basis of specified priorities, including
priority to children whose family moves from place to place.
   This bill, beginning July 1, 2017, would instead define "migrant
agricultural worker family" as a family with at least one parent who
has earned at least 50 percent of his or her income from employment
in fishing, agriculture, or agriculturally related work during the
12-month period immediately preceding the date of application for
child care and development services. The bill would require the
children of these families to be given priority for enrollment in
migrant child care and development programs a specified priority
order, with first priority going to those children in families that
move from place to place.
   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 8231 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   8231.  (a) For the purpose of this article, a "migrant
agricultural worker family" means a family that has earned at least
50 percent of its total gross income from employment in fishing,
agriculture, or agriculturally related work during the 12-month
period immediately preceding the date of application for child care
and development services.
   (b)  (1)    Children of migrant agricultural
worker families shall be enrolled in child development programs on
the basis of the following priorities: 
   (1) 
    (A)  The family moves from place to place. 
   (2) 
    (B)  The family has qualified under  paragraph
(1)   subparagraph (A)  within the past five years
and is currently dependent for its income on agricultural employment,
but is currently settled near agricultural areas. 
   (3) 
    (C)  The family resides in a rural agricultural area and
is dependent upon seasonal agricultural work. 
   (4) 
    (2)  Eligibility and priority for services for the
federally funded Migrant Child Development Program shall be in
accordance with the applicable federal regulations. 
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until July 1, 2017,
and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that
is enacted before July 1, 2017, deletes or extends that date. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 8231 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   8231.  (a) For the purpose of this chapter, a "migrant
agricultural worker family" means a family with at least one parent
who has earned at least 50 percent of his or her income from
employment in fishing, agriculture, or agriculturally related work
during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of
application for child care and development services.
   (b) (1) For purposes of this article, priority for enrollment
shall be given to children of migrant agricultural worker families in
the following priority order:
   (A) The family moves from place to place.
   (B) The family has qualified under subparagraph (A) within the
past five years and is currently dependent for its income on
agricultural employment, but is currently settled near agricultural
areas.
   (C) The family resides in a rural agricultural area and is
dependent upon seasonal agricultural work.
   (2) Eligibility and priority for services for the federally funded
migrant child care and development program shall be in accordance
with the applicable federal regulations.
   (c) This section is operative on July 1, 2017.