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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1561

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By House Committee on Human Services (originally sponsored by Representatives Brown, Wolfe, Thibaudeau, Mastin, J. Kohl, H. Myers, Johanson, Romero, Leonard, Karahalios and L. Johnson)

Read first time 02/04/94.

Studying whether preschools should be regulated like agencies that care for children, expectant mothers, and developmentally disabled people.

    AN ACT Relating to preschools; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The safety, health, welfare, and quality of care and early education is critically important to the well-being of young children.  Educational programs that enroll preschool children for four or fewer hours per day are exempted from requirements of chapter 74.15 RCW.  Therefore, the legislature intends to bring such programs under state regulatory authority consistent with other child care and early childhood programs by 1998.

    The child care coordinating committee established under RCW 74.13.090 shall develop a phase-in strategy with specific recommendations and impact statements and report these recommendations and findings to the legislature by December 1, 1994.  In developing these recommendations, the child care coordinating committee shall involve programs serving preschool children.

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