The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

"Agency" shall have the same meaning as described in RCW 43.216.010.

"Department" or "DCYF" means the Washington state department of children, youth, and families.

"Early learning" shall have the same meaning as described in RCW 43.216.010.

"Outdoor, nature-based early learning and child care program," "outdoor classroom," or "outdoor preschool" means an agency-offered program operated primarily outdoors in which children are enrolled on a regular basis for three or more hours per day. For the purposes of this section "primarily" means that a participant must operate an outdoor classroom for more than fifty percent of program hours per day. Such programs may be offered as:

(a) An outdoor component of a licensed early learning program;

(b) A program operating entirely outdoors on private or public park land, with or without a permanently located outdoor classroom.

"Participants" refers to the entities operating nature-based early learning and child care programs licensed by the department to participate in the outdoor preschool pilot project.