5077-S AMS BILL BOGG 063

SSB 5077 - S AMD 321

By Senator Billig

NOT ADOPTED 04/03/2015

    On page 189, after line 34, insert the following:

"(c) Within the amounts provided in (a) of this subsection, the department is authorized to maintain funding for 1,359 full day slots and 567 extended day slots for eligible children in the early childhood education assistance program."

EFFECT:   Allows the department to continue funding for full day (six hour) and extended day (ten hour) slots for eligible children in the Early Childhood Education and Assistance program.

FISCAL EFFECT:  Allows the Department of Early Learning to use $16,654,000 GF-FED for full and extended day Early Childhood Education and Assistance program. Reduces the amount of GF-Fed transferred from Department of Early Learning to the Working Connections Child Care program from $153,717,000 GF-FED to $135,046,000 GF-FED.

This would require a maintenance-level adjustment in the 2016 and 2017 Supplemental budgets to replace the reduced resources for the Working Connections Child Care program. 

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