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                                          ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 5478

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senators Rinehart, Gaspard, Bender, Bauer, Moore, Fleming, Williams, Talmadge, DeJarnatt and McDermott; by request of Office of the Governor and Superintendent of Public Instruction

Read first time 1/30/87 and referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to school-based day care; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.34 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.34 RCW to read as follows:

          As a supplement to the authority otherwise granted by this chapter respecting the care or instruction, or both, of children in general, the board of directors of any school district may only utilize funds outside the state basic education appropriation and the state school transportation appropriation to:

          (1) Contract with public and private entities to conduct all or any portion of the management and operation of a child care program at a school district site or elsewhere;

          (2) Establish charges based upon costs incurred under this section and provide for the reduction or waiver of charges in individual cases based upon the financial ability of the parents or legal guardians of enrolled children to pay the charges, or upon their provision of other valuable consideration to the school district; and

          (3) Transport children enrolled in a child care program to the program and to related sites using district-owned school buses and other motor vehicles, or by contracting for such transportation and related services: PROVIDED, That no child three years of age or younger shall be transported under the provisions of this 1987 act unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.