2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 26.5 - EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS AND SERVICES (§§ 26.5-1-101 — 26.5-6-103) › Article 4 - CHILD CARE AND EDUCATION (§§ 26.5-4-101 — 26.5-4-403) › Part 1 - COLORADO CHILD CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (§§ 26.5-4-101 — 26.5-4-121) › Section 26.5-4-110 - Funding - allocation - maintenance of effort - allocation committee - rules

(1)
There is created the child care assistance program allocation committee consisting of eleven members, eight of whom are appointed by a statewide association of counties and three of whom are appointed by the department. Of the members appointed by the statewide association of counties, at least two members must be from small or medium-sized counties and at least three must be from large counties, one appointee of whom must be a representative from the county that has the greatest percentage of the state's child care assistance program caseload. The appointing authorities shall consult with each other to ensure that the child care assistance program allocation committee is representative of the counties in the state. The child care assistance program allocation committee shall develop its own operational procedures.
(2)
(a)
Starting with the 2023-24 state fiscal year, and subject to available appropriations, the department, upon receiving recommendations from the child care assistance program allocation committee, shall annually establish the amount of each county's block grant for CCCAP based on an allocation formula agreed upon by the department and the child care assistance program allocation committee. Counties are only required to spend the state CCCAP allocation and the maintenance of effort for that allocation.
(b)
If the department and the child care assistance program allocation committee do not reach an agreement on the allocation formula on or before June 1 of a state fiscal year for the succeeding state fiscal year, the department and the child care assistance program allocation committee shall submit alternatives to the joint budget committee of the general assembly from which the joint budget committee shall select an allocation formula before the beginning of the succeeding state fiscal year.
(3)
The department, after input from the child care assistance program allocation committee, shall adopt rules regarding adjustments to the amount of a block grant, and the rules must address the following factors:
(a)
The cost of living;
(b)
The cost of high-quality early childhood programs;
(c)
The cost of programs;
(d)
The regional market rates or costs for CCCAP;
(e)
Drastic economic changes;
(f)
Geographic differences within a county; and
(g)
Other factors as determined by the child care assistance program allocation committee.
(4)
The money in a county block grant allocated to a county pursuant to this section must only be used for the provision of child care services pursuant to department rules promulgated pursuant to this part 1.
(5)
Money transferred from the county block grant temporary assistance for needy families program pursuant to section
26-2-714 (7)
to the child care development fund may be used for child care quality improvement activities as identified in the federal "Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014",
42 U.S.C. sec. 9858e
, as amended.
(6)
For state fiscal year 2005-06 and for each state fiscal year thereafter, each county is required to meet a level of county spending for CCCAP that is equal to the county's proportionate share of the total county funds set forth in the annual general appropriation act for CCCAP for that state fiscal year. The level of county spending is known as the county's maintenance of effort for CCCAP for that state fiscal year. For any state fiscal year, the department is authorized to adjust a county's maintenance of effort, reflected as a percentage of the total county funds set forth in the annual general appropriation act for CCCAP for that state fiscal year, so that the percentage equals the county's proportionate share of the total state and federal funds appropriated for CCCAP for that state fiscal year. For any state fiscal year, the sum of all counties' maintenance of effort must be equal to or greater than the total county funds set forth in the general appropriation act for the state fiscal year 1996-97 for employment-related child care.
Renumbered from C.R.S. §
26-2-804
and amended by 2022 Ch. 123, §3, eff. 7/1/2022.
Amended by 2018 Ch. 386, §1, eff. 7/1/2018.
Amended by 2017 Ch. 359, §1, eff. 8/9/2017.
Amended by 2014 Ch. 259, §4, eff. 5/22/2014.
L. 97: Entire part added, p. 1218, § 1, effective June 3. L. 2000: (2)(d) added, p. 283, § 6, effective March 31. L. 2003: (4) amended and (5) and (6) added, p. 2600, § 1, effective June 5. L. 2008: (2)(d) amended, p. 1978, § 26, effective 1/1/2009. L. 2014: IP(1), (1)(a), (3), and (6) amended, (HB 14-1317), ch. 259, p. 1033, § 4, effective May 22. L. 2017: (3.5) added, (HB 17-1355), ch. 359, p. 1886, § 1, effective August 9. L. 2018: Entire section R&RE, (HB 18-1335), ch. 386, p. 2311, § 1, effective July 1.
Subsections (4)(b) and (5)(b) provided for the repeal of subsections (4) and (5), respectively, effective July 1, 2005. (See L. 2003, p. 2600.)