2353-S2 AMH CHAB REIN 233

2SHB 2353 - H AMD 785

By Representative Chandler

FAILED 2/10/2006

   On page 3, beginning on line 11, strike all of subsection (4) and insert the following:

   "(4) This section and sections 2 through 5 of this act do not create or modify:
   (a) The parents' or legal guardians' right to choose and terminate the services of any family child care provider that provides care for their child or children, including a family child care provider who declines to pay regular union dues and initiation fees or representation fees in accordance with a union security provision;
   (b) The secretary of the department of social and health services' right to adopt requirements under RCW 74.15.030, except for requirements related to grievance procedures and collective negotiations on personnel matters as specified in subsection (2)(c) of this section;
   (c) The secretary of the department of social and health services' right to determine the family child care providers who receive child care subsidies, except that the secretary is prohibited from barring a family child care provider from receiving child care subsidies because the provider declines to pay regular union dues and initiation fees or representation fees in accordance with a union security provision;

   (d) Chapter 26.44 RCW, RCW 43.43.832, 43.20A.205, and 74.15.130; and
   (e) The legislature's right to make programmatic modifications to the delivery of state services through child care subsidy programs, including standards of eligibility of parents, legal guardians, and family child care providers participating in child care subsidy programs, and the nature of services provided. The governor shall not enter into, extend, or renew any agreement under this section that does not expressly reserve the legislative rights described in this subsection (4)(d)."

EFFECT: Preserves the parents' right to choose a family child care provider who declines to pay regular union dues and initiation fees or representation fees.

Prohibits the Secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services from barring a family child care provider from receiving child care subsidies because the provider declines to pay regular union dues and initiation fees or representation fees.