CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1561

                    Chapter 99, Laws of 1994

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

            PRESCHOOLS‑-REGULATION PHASE-IN STRATEGY

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/9/94

Passed by the House February 10, 1994   Yeas 69   Nays 23 BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 2, 1994   Yeas 40   Nays 6

CERTIFICATE I, Marilyn Showalter, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1561 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

R. LORRAINE WOJAHN President of the Senate

MARILYN SHOWALTER                           Chief Clerk

Approved March 25, 1994 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 25, 1994 - 3:10 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1561

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             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

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.

    Passed the House February 10, 1994.

    Passed the Senate March 2, 1994.

Approved by the Governor March 25, 1994.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 25, 1994.