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ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 6013
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AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
C 329 L 87
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1987 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections (originally sponsored by Senators Kreidler and Wojahn)
Read first time 3/6/87.
AN ACT Relating to child care; creating a new section; and providing an expiration date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The secretary of social and health services shall appoint a child care resource coordinator who 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 child care information and referral systems; and
(b) Creating and conducting 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.
(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.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. Section 1 of this act shall expire June 30, 1989, unless extended by law for an additional fixed period of time.