To receive payment a consumer's child care provider must:

(1) Be a licensed, certified, or DEL-contracted provider.

(a) Licensed providers are licensed as required by chapter 43.215 RCW and chapter 170-295, 170-296A, or 170-297 WAC.

(b) Certified providers are exempt from licensing but certified by DEL, such as:

(i) Tribal child care facilities that meet the requirements of tribal law;

(ii) Child care facilities on a military installation; and

(iii) Child care facilities operated on public school property by a school district.

(c) DEL-contracted seasonal day camp has a contract with DEL to provide subsidized child care.

(d) Meet early head start–child care partnership slots provider requirements.

(2) Keep complete and accurate daily attendance records for children in their care, and allow access to DEL to inspect attendance records during all hours in which authorized child care is provided as follows:

(a) Current attendance records (including records from the previous twelve months) must be available immediately for review upon request by DEL.

(b) Attendance records older than twelve months to five years old must be provided to DSHS or DEL within two weeks of the date of a written request from either department. Beginning July 1, 2017, or upon ratification of the 2017-19 collective bargaining agreement with SEIU 925, whichever occurs later, the records must be provided within twenty-eight consecutive calendar days of the date of a written request from either department.

(c) Failure to make available attendance records as provided in this subsection may:

(i) Result in the immediate suspension of the provider's subsidy payments; and

(ii) Establish a provider overpayment.