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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5026
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State of Washington 51st Legislature 1989 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Children & Family Services (originally sponsored by Senators Kreidler, Smith, Stratton, Rinehart, Wojahn and Sutherland)
Read first time 2/17/89.
AN ACT Relating to child care; amending section 1, chapter 329, Laws of 1987 (uncodified); amending section 2, chapter 329, Laws of 1987 (uncodified); and making an appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 1, chapter 329, Laws of 1987 (uncodified) is amended to read as follows:
The ((secretary
of social and health services shall appoint a)) office of the child
care resources coordinator ((who)) operating under the
authority of the department of social and health services shall ((within
appropriated funds)):
(1) Actively seek public or private moneys and administer funding of available grants to local governments, private industry, and community-based nonprofit corporations for the purpose of:
(a)
Creating and ((operating)) coordinating child care information
and referral systems; and
(b)
Creating and ((conducting)) coordinating a business outreach
program to assess and fulfill the child care needs of businesses and families.
(2) ((Create
a state-wide child care referral data bank and)) Provide information
to local information and referral systems about all licensed child care
providers in the state. The data ((bank)) shall include information about
the existence of providers by locality and the status of the providers'
licenses, including whether the license has been issued, denied, revoked, or
suspended or whether a letter of intent to deny, suspend, or revoke has been
issued by the department of social and health services. ((The licensing
division of the department shall make such information readily available to the
child care resource coordinator.)) Department of social and health
services licensors shall work with the child care resource coordinator in
making such information readily available to local resource and referral
systems.
(3) Coordinate the provision of training and technical assistance to child care providers.
(4) Collect, develop, and disseminate information to assist employers and to foster a public-private partnership to increase and improve available child care.
(5) Collect and assemble information regarding the availability of insurance and of federal and other child-care funding to assist the department, industry, and other providers in offering child care related services.
(6) ((Recommend
statutory and administrative changes to the legislature and the department of
trade and economic development to encourage employer-provided assistance for
child care, recommendations for state economic development programs which
encourage employer participation in child care)) (a) With the
involvement of community child care advocates, the child care resources
coordinator shall work to create county or multicounty child care resource and
referral systems. All groups with an interest in child care, including
employers and parents, shall be represented on the resource and referral
organization's board.
(b) Local resource and referral organizations may carry out needs assessments, resource development, provider training, technical assistance, resource and referral, and parent information and training.
(c) The local child care resource and referral systems shall be organized into a state-wide network. The child care resources coordinator shall provide staff support and technical assistance to these organizations.
(7)(a) State grants shall be awarded by the department of social and health services to the child care resource and referral systems to provide the services outlined in subsection (6)(b) of this section.
(b) The state, through local resource and referral systems shall compile data about child care needs and availability at the local level for future planning and development.
Sec. 2. Section 2, chapter 329, Laws of 1987 (uncodified) is amended to read as follows:
Section 1
of this act shall expire June 30, ((1989)) 1991, unless extended
by law for an additional fixed period of time.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. There is appropriated from the general fund to the department of social and health services for the biennium ending June 30, 1991, the sum of forty-five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for start-up operating grants for the local child care resource and referral systems.