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                       ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1808

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By House Committee on Trade & Economic Development (originally sponsored by Representatives Wineberry, Miller, Wood, Belcher, Rasmussen, Forner, H. Myers, R. King, Silver, Leonard, Fraser, Winsley, Phillips and Mitchell; by request of Dept. of Trade and Economic Developmt).

Read first time March 5, 1991.  Pertaining to the child care facility fund.

     AN ACT Relating to the child care facility fund; and amending RCW 43.31.502 and 43.31.512.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 43.31.502 and 1989 c 430 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) A child care facility fund is created.  Money in the fund shall be used solely for the purpose of starting or improving a child care facility pursuant to RCW 43.31.085 and 43.31.502 through 43.31.514.  Only moneys from private or federal sources may be deposited into this fund.

(2) Funds provided under this section shall not be subject to reappropriation.  The child care facility fund shall be a revolving loan fund and the child care facility fund committee may use loan and grant repayments and income for the revolving fund program.

     Sec. 2.  RCW 43.31.512 and 1989 c 430 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:

     The child care facility fund committee shall award loan guarantees, loans or grants to those persons, businesses, or organizations meeting the minimum standards set forth in this chapter who will best serve the intent of the chapter to increase the availability of high quality, affordable child care in Washington state.  Employee organizations may apply for loan guarantees, loans, or grants from the child care facility fund.  Applications for loan guarantees, loans, or grants by employee organizations shall be submitted jointly with the businesses or employers whose employees will be served by the child care facility that is the subject of the application.  The committee shall promulgate rules regarding the application for and disbursement of loan guarantees, loans, or grants from the fund, including loan terms and repayment procedures.  At a minimum, such rules shall require an applicant to submit a plan which includes a detailed description of:

     (1) The need for a new or improved child care facility in the area served by the applicant;

     (2) The steps the applicant will take to serve a reasonable number of handicapped children as defined in chapter 72.40 RCW, sick children, infants, children requiring night time or weekend care, or children whose costs of care are subsidized by government;

     (3) Why financial assistance from the state is needed to start or improve the child care facility;

     (4) How the guaranteed loan, loan, or grant will be used, and how such uses will meet the described need;

     (5) The child care services to be available at the facility and the capacity of the applicant to provide those services; and

     (6) The financial status of the applicant, including other resources available to the applicant which will ensure the continued viability of the facility and the availability of its described services.

     Recipients shall annually for two years following the receipt of the loan guarantee, loan, or grant, submit to the child care facility fund committee a report on the facility and how it is meeting the child care needs for which it was intended.