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2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 13 - Allocations and Expenditures › Section 10309.3.

10309.3. The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(a) There is a serious shortage of quality child day care and preschool facilities throughout the state.
(b) It is in the interest of the state’s children and families, and the state’s economic growth, to encourage the expansion of existing child day care and preschool facilities by assisting communities and interested government and private entities to finance child day care and preschool facilities.
(c) In addition to regional resource centers described in Provision 7(d) of Item 6110-196-0001 of the Budget Act of 1999, which focus on developing child care capacity in underserved areas of the state, there is a need to access capital for facilities on a systematic basis, especially to use limited public sector funds to leverage a greater private sector role in financing child day care and preschool facilities. The Legislature finds and declares that a financial intermediary could fill this role and support the regional resource centers and other local entities that work with potential providers by functioning as a centralized repository of training, best practices, and expertise on facilities financing.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 13 - Allocations and Expenditures › Section 10309.5.

10309.5. (a) The department shall contract with a nonprofit organization to serve as a financial intermediary. The nonprofit organization shall have staff who have expertise in financing and capital expansion, are knowledgeable about the child care and preschool field, and have the ability to develop and implement a plan to increase the availability of financing to renovate, expand, and construct child day care and preschool facilities, both in day care centers and family child care homes.
(b) The financial intermediary selected by the department shall undertake activities designed to increase funds available from the private and public sectors for the financing of child day care and preschool facilities. These activities shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Soliciting capital grants and program-related investments from foundations and corporations.
(2) Building partnerships with foundations and corporations.
(3) Developing lending commitments, linked deposits, and other financing programs with conventional financial institutions.
(4) Coordinating private sources of capital with existing public sector sources of financing for child day care and preschool facilities, including, but not limited to, the Department of Housing and Community Development and the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank.
(5) Coordinating financing efforts with the technical assistance provided by the regional resource centers described in Provision 7(d) of Item 6110-196-0001 of the Budget Act of 1999, and other local entities that work with potential providers.
(c) This section shall only be implemented to the extent that funds are appropriated for this purpose in the annual Budget Act.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 15 - Transfer of Information › Section 10315.

10315. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the state makes a substantial, annual investment in preschool, infant and toddler, and schoolage child development programs for eligible families. It is in the best interests of children and their families, and the taxpayers of California, to have information about the development and learning abilities of children developed in these settings, health and other information transferred to, or otherwise available to, the pupil’s elementary school.
(b) When a child in a state-funded preschool or infant and toddler program will be transferring to a local public school, the preschool or infant and toddler program shall provide the parent or guardian with information from the previous year deemed beneficial to the pupil and the public school teacher, including, but not limited to, development issues, social interaction abilities, health background, and diagnostic assessments, if any. The preschool or infant and toddler program may, with the permission of the parent or guardian, transfer this information to the pupil’s elementary school.
(c) Any child who has participated in a state subsidized preschool that maintains results-based standards, including the desired results accountability system, may have the performance information transferred to any subsequent or concurrent public school setting. Any transferred information shall be in summary form and only accomplished with the permission of the parent or guardian.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 17 - Local Programs › Section 10330.

10330. The governing board of any school district or a county superintendent of schools with the approval of the county board of education is authorized to establish and maintain child development programs upon the approval of, and subject to the regulations of the department.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 17 - Local Programs › Section 10331.

10331. (a) The county superintendent of schools in each county, with the approval of the county board of education and the department, shall have the authority to establish and maintain child development programs and centers in the same manner and to the same extent as governing boards of school or community college districts, except that nothing in this section shall be construed as vesting in the county superintendents of schools any authority to alone effect the levy and collection of any county, school, or other local taxes for the support of any child development programs and centers.
(b) The establishment and maintenance of any child development program and center by the county superintendent of schools shall be undertaken, subject to the prior approval of both the county board of education and the department, upon the application of one or more school districts under their jurisdiction.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 17 - Local Programs › Section 10332.

10332. The governing board of any school district or the county superintendent of schools may do the following:
(a) Accommodate in a child development facility maintained by it children residing in another district, upon terms and under conditions agreed upon by the governing boards of both districts.
(b) Permit the use of, and furnish maintenance for, buildings, grounds, and equipment, and the use of existing administrative personnel for the purposes of this chapter.
(c) Adopt reasonable rules and regulations governing the child development services or facilities maintained by it that are not in conflict with law or the standards and regulations established for child development services by the department.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 17 - Local Programs › Section 10333.

10333. The employees of school districts or community college districts, or county superintendents of schools in preschool and other types of child development services under this division shall have the same rights and privileges as are granted to employees of the same agencies in children’s centers.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 17 - Local Programs › Section 10334.

10334. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a public or private agency, a school district, a community college district or a county superintendent of schools operating child development facilities may enter into an agreement with the Employment Development Department which will provide an opportunity to participants in work incentive programs under Division 2 (commencing with Section 5000) of the Unemployment Insurance Code for training in child development facilities. Training pursuant to such agreement shall have the objective of preparation for a career in the field of child development.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 17 - Local Programs › Section 10335.

10335. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the governing board of a school district or community college district, county superintendent of schools, or other unit of local general purpose government may enter into agreements with any city, city and county, or other public agency, or with a private foundation or nonprofit corporation, for the furnishing to, or use by, the governing board, county superintendent of schools, or other unit of local general purpose government in carrying out the provisions of this part, of property, facilities, personnel, supplies, equipment and other necessary items and such city, county, city and county, other public agency, or private foundation or nonprofit corporation, is authorized to enter into such agreements.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 17 - Local Programs › Section 10336.

10336. (a) The governing board of any school district or the county superintendent of schools shall establish in the county treasury a fund to be known as the “child development fund” into which shall be paid all funds received by the district or the county for, or from the operation of, child development services under this chapter. The costs incurred in the maintenance and operation of child development services shall be paid from the fund, with accounting to reflect specific funding sources.
(b) Funds of a district derived from the receipt of district taxes or derived from moneys apportioned to the district for the support of schools thereof, in addition to state moneys appropriated for the support of child development services, fees, and federal funds, may be expended for, or in connection with child development services.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 17 - Local Programs › Section 10337.

10337. The governing board of any school district maintaining a child development program may include in its budget the amount necessary to initiate, operate, and maintain a child development program pursuant to this chapter and the board of supervisors shall levy a school district tax necessary to raise that amount. The tax shall be in addition to any other school district tax authorized by law to be levied.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 18 - Individualized Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Child Care Subsidy Plans › Section 10340.

10340. The Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma may, individually as a pilot project, develop and implement individualized county child care subsidy plans. The plans shall ensure that child care subsidies received by the above-named counties are used to address local needs, conditions, and priorities of working families in their respective communities.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 10348. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 10348.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 18 - Individualized Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Child Care Subsidy Plans › Section 10341.

10341. For purposes of this chapter, “county” means the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 10348. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 10348.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 18 - Individualized Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Child Care Subsidy Plans › Section 10343.

10343. The department shall establish instructions and timelines for submittal or modifications of the plans, including, but not limited to, plan templates and timelines for plan submittal and requests for addition of participating contractors.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 10348. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 10348.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 18 - Individualized Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Child Care Subsidy Plans › Section 10344.

10344. (a) (1) The plan shall be submitted to the local planning council, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 10480, for approval. Upon approval of the plan by the local planning council, the board of supervisors of the county shall hold at least one public hearing on the plan. Following the hearing, if the board votes in favor of the plan, the plan shall be submitted to the department for review.
(2) Initial proposed rate changes not included in the plan shall be approved by the board of supervisors of the county prior to final approval of the plan by the department.
(b) Within 30 days of receiving the plan, the department shall review and either approve or disapprove the plan.
(c) Plan modifications, including subsequent rate changes, shall be submitted to the local planning council, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 10480, for approval prior to final approval of the plan by the department.
(d) Within 30 days of receiving a modification of the plan, the department shall review and either approve or disapprove that modification of the plan.
(e) The department may disapprove only those portions of a plan, or any modification of the plan, that are not in conformance with this chapter or that are in conflict with federal law.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 10348. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 10348.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 18 - Individualized Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Child Care Subsidy Plans › Section 10345.

10345. (a) The County of Santa Clara shall, by the end of the first fiscal year of operation under the approved child care subsidy plan, demonstrate, in the report required pursuant to Section 10346, an increase in the total aggregate child days of enrollment in child care in the county as compared to the enrollment in the final quarter of the 2015–16 fiscal year.
(b) The County of Alameda shall, by the end of the first fiscal year of operation under the approved child care subsidy plan, demonstrate, in the report required pursuant to Section 10346, an increase in the total aggregate child days of enrollment in child care in the county as compared to the enrollment in the final quarter of the 2014–15 fiscal year.
(c) The Counties of Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma shall, by the end of the first fiscal year of operation under the approved child care subsidy plan, demonstrate, in the report required pursuant to Section 10346, an increase in the total aggregate child days of enrollment in child care in the county as compared to the enrollment in the final quarter of the 2016–17 fiscal year.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 10348. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 10348.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 18 - Individualized Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Child Care Subsidy Plans › Section 10346.

10346. (a)  Using a template developed by the department, the county shall prepare and submit to the Legislature and the department a report that summarizes the success of the county’s plan, and the county’s ability to maximize the use of funds and to improve and stabilize child care in the county. The report shall be submitted as follows:
(1) At the end of year one of the plan, a report that describes the first year of implementation.
(2) At the end of year three of the plan, a report that describes years two and three of implementation.
(3) At the end of year five of the plan, a report that describes years four and five of implementation.
(b) The department shall review the reports submitted pursuant to subdivision (a), along with any applicable programmatic and fiscal compliance records submitted by the contracting agencies participating in the plan, and determine whether to allow the county to continue with the plan without change, or whether to require modifications to be made to the plan.
(c) The county shall, by the end of the first fiscal year of operation under the approved plan, demonstrate, in the report required pursuant to this section, that there was no reduction in the number of children served as compared to the number of children served before the implementation of the plan.
(d) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 10348. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 10348.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 18 - Individualized Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Child Care Subsidy Plans › Section 10347.

10347. A participating contractor shall receive an increase or decrease in funding that the contractor would have received if the contractor had not participated in the plan.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 10348. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 10348.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 18 - Individualized Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Child Care Subsidy Plans › Section 10348.

10348. This chapter shall become inoperative on July 1, 2024, and, as of January 1, 2025, is repealed.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 41, Sec. 18. (AB 116) Effective July 10, 2023. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, by its own provisions. Note: Repeal affects Chapter 18, comprising Sections 10340 to 10349.5)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 18 - Individualized Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Child Care Subsidy Plans › Section 10349.

10349. Notwithstanding the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code), the department may implement and administer this chapter through the issuance of guidance or other written directives, which may include, but is not limited to, establishing timelines for submittal of plans and any modifications, plan templates, and processes for requesting additional participating contractors.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 10348. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 10348.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 18 - Individualized Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Marin, Monterey, San Benito, San Diego, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Child Care Subsidy Plans › Section 10349.5.

10349.5. Commencing on the effective date of the act that added this section, the components of the plan relating to preschool shall be overseen by the State Department of Education and the components of the plan addressing all other child care programs shall be overseen by the department.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 10348. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 10348.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 19 - Child Care Subsidy Plan for the City and County of San Francisco › Section 10350.

10350. The City and County of San Francisco may develop and implement an individualized county child care subsidy plan. The plan shall ensure that child care subsidies received by the city and county are used to address local needs, conditions, and priorities of working families in the community.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 19 - Child Care Subsidy Plan for the City and County of San Francisco › Section 10352.

10352. (a) The plan shall be submitted to the local planning council, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 10480, for approval. Upon approval of the plan by the local planning council, the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall hold at least one public hearing on the plan. Following the hearing, if the board of supervisors votes in favor of the plan, the plan shall be submitted to the department for review.
(b) Within 30 days of receiving the plan, the department shall review and either approve or disapprove the plan.
(c) Within 30 days of receiving any modification to the plan, the department shall review and either approve or disapprove that modification to the plan.
(d) The department may disapprove only those portions of the plan or modifications to the plan that are not in conformance with either this chapter or Chapter 18 (commencing with Section 10340) or that are in conflict with federal law.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 19 - Child Care Subsidy Plan for the City and County of San Francisco › Section 10353.

10353. (a)  The City and County of San Francisco shall, at least once every three years, using the template developed by the department, prepare and submit to the Legislature and the department a report that summarizes the success of the city and county’s plan, and the city and county’s ability to maximize the use of funds and to improve and stabilize child care in the city and county.
(b) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 19 - Child Care Subsidy Plan for the City and County of San Francisco › Section 10354.

10354. Any modifications to the plan shall be submitted in conformance with the procedures established in Chapter 18 (commencing with Section 10340).
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 19 - Child Care Subsidy Plan for the City and County of San Francisco › Section 10355.

10355. A participating contractor shall receive any increase or decrease in funding that the contractor would have received if the contractor had not participated in the local subsidy plan established by this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 19 - Child Care Subsidy Plan for the City and County of San Francisco › Section 10356.

10356. Commencing on the effective date of the act that added this section, the components of the plan relating to preschool shall be overseen by the State Department of Education and the components of the plan addressing all other child care programs shall be overseen by the department.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 20 - Individualized County of San Mateo Child Care Subsidy Plan › Section 10360.

10360. On and after July 1, 2014, the individualized county child care subsidy plan for the County of San Mateo that was developed as a pilot project pursuant to Article 15.3 (commencing with Section 8340) of Chapter 2 of Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, as that article read on January 1, 2013, may continue in existence and may be implemented in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The plan shall ensure that child care subsidies received by the County of San Mateo are used to address local needs, conditions, and priorities of working families in those communities.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 20 - Individualized County of San Mateo Child Care Subsidy Plan › Section 10361.

10361. For purposes of this chapter, “county” means the County of San Mateo.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 20 - Individualized County of San Mateo Child Care Subsidy Plan › Section 10363.

10363. (a) Except as provided in this section, any modifications to the plan shall be submitted in accordance with the modification procedures described in Chapter 18 (commencing with Section 10340).
(b) Within 30 days of receiving any modification to the plan, the department shall review and either approve or disapprove that modification to the plan.
(c) The department may disapprove only those portions of modifications to the plan that are not in conformance with either this chapter or Chapter 18 (commencing with Section 10340) or that are in conflict with federal law.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 20 - Individualized County of San Mateo Child Care Subsidy Plan › Section 10364.

10364. (a) The county shall at least once every three years, using the template developed by the department, prepare and submit to the Legislature and the department a report that summarizes the success of the county’s plan, and the county’s ability to maximize the use of funds and to improve and stabilize child care in the county.
(b) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 20 - Individualized County of San Mateo Child Care Subsidy Plan › Section 10365.

10365. A participating contractor shall receive any increase or decrease in funding that the contractor would have received if the contractor had not participated in the plan.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 20 - Individualized County of San Mateo Child Care Subsidy Plan › Section 10366.

10366. Commencing on the effective date of the act that added this section, the components of the plan relating to preschool shall be overseen by the State Department of Education and the components of the plan addressing all other child care programs shall be overseen by the department.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10370.

10370. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to ensure that recipients of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3, or any successor program, and former recipients who have left aid for employment, are connected as soon as possible to local child care resources, make stable child care arrangements, and continue to receive subsidized child care services after they no longer receive aid as long as they require those services and meet the eligibility requirements set forth in Sections 10271 and 10271.5.
(b) This chapter establishes three stages of child care services through which a recipient of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3, or any successor program, will pass. Further, as families’ child care needs are met by county welfare departments and later by other local child care and development contractors, it is the intent of the Legislature that families experience no break in their child care services due to a transition between the three stages of child care services.
(c) In order to ensure that there is no disruption in child care services due to the planned transitions between the stages of CalWORKs child care, the first stage or the second stage of child care services shall not be discontinued until confirmation is received from the administrator of the subsequent stage of child care that the family has been enrolled in the subsequent stage of child care, or that the family is ineligible for services in the subsequent stage of child care.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10370.5.

10370.5. Current CalWORKs recipients are eligible for all child care services under this chapter as long as they continue to receive aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3, or any successor program. Family size and income, for purposes of calculating family fees, shall be determined pursuant to Section 10271.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10371.

10371. (a) The county welfare department shall manage the first stage during which a family shall receive a child care subsidy for any legal care chosen by the parent. The first stage begins upon the entry of a person into the program prescribed by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3.
(b) A county shall move recipients out of this first response stage as quickly as possible after the county determines that the need for child care is stable. A recipient may be served in this stage for a maximum of six months. The six-month time limit may be extended if the county determines that the recipient’s situation is too unstable to be shifted to the second stage or if no funds are available to provide child care services in the second stage.
(c) Former CalWORKs recipients who cannot be transitioned from the first stage of child care because no funded slot is available are eligible to receive the first stage and any subsequent stage two child care services for up to a total of 24 months after they leave cash aid, or until they are otherwise ineligible within that 24-month period. Family size and income for purposes of determining eligibility and family fee shall be determined pursuant to Sections 10271 and 10271.5.
(d) The county welfare department shall also begin the first stage of child care when an individual who applies for aid under the program described in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 is participating as a volunteer pursuant to Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 11320) of Chapter 2 of Part 3.
(e) A county may contract with public or private child care providers to provide any or all of the services during the first stage. If the county welfare department elects to contract with any child care provider that is also under contract with the department, these contracts shall be consistent with state law.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10371.5.

10371.5. (a) As soon as appropriate, a county welfare department shall refer families needing child care services to the local child care resource and referral program funded pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 10217). Resource and referral program staff shall colocate with a county welfare department’s case management offices for aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3, or any successor program, or arrange other means of swift communication with parents and case managers of this aid. The local child care resource and referral program shall assist families to establish stable child care arrangements as soon as possible. These child care arrangements may include licensed and license-exempt care.
(b) A program operating pursuant to this chapter shall, within two business days of being notified of a revocation or a temporary suspension order for a licensed child day care facility, do both of the following:
(1) Terminate payment to the facility.
(2) Notify each parent and the facility in writing that payment has been terminated and the reason for the termination.
(c) A program operating pursuant to this chapter shall, upon being notified that a licensed child care facility has been placed on probation, provide written notice to each parent utilizing the facility that the facility has been placed on probation and that the parent has the option of selecting a different child day care provider or remaining with the facility without risk of subsidy payments to the provider being terminated. The Legislature urges each agency operating pursuant to this section to provide the written notice required by this subdivision in the primary language of the parent, to the extent feasible.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10372.

10372. (a) The second stage of child care begins when the county determines that the recipient’s work or approved work activity is stable or when a recipient is transitioning off of aid and child care is available through a local stage two program. Second stage child care may be provided to a family who elects to receive a lump-sum diversion payment or diversion services under Section 11266.5 when a funded space is not immediately available for the family in third stage. The local stage two agency shall assist in moving families to stage three as quickly as feasible. Former CalWORKs recipients are eligible to receive child care services in stage one and stage two for up to a total of no more than 24 months after they leave cash aid, or until they are otherwise ineligible within that 24-month period. Family size and income for purposes of determining eligibility and calculating the family fee shall be determined pursuant to Sections 10271 and 10271.5. A family leaving cash aid under the CalWORKs program shall receive up to two years of child care, if otherwise eligible, as needed to continue the family’s employment. The provision of the two-year time limit is not intended to limit eligibility for child care under Section 10372.5.
(b) The second stage shall be administered by agencies contracting with the department. These contractors may be either agencies that have an alternative payment contract pursuant to Section 10225.5 or county welfare departments that choose to administer this stage in order to continue to provide child care services for recipients or former recipients of aid. If the county chooses to contract with the department to provide alternative payment services, this contract shall not displace, or result in the reduction of an existing contract of, a current alternative payment program.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10372.5.

10372.5. (a) The third stage of child care begins when a funded space is available. CalWORKs recipients are eligible for the third stage of child care. Persons who received a lump-sum diversion payment or diversion services and former CalWORKs participants are eligible if they have an income that does not exceed 70 percent of the state median income pursuant to Section 10271.5. The third stage shall be administered by programs contracting with the department. Parents’ eligibility for child care and development services will be governed by Section 10271 and regulations adopted by the department.
(b) In order to move welfare recipients and former recipients from their relationship with county welfare departments to relationships with institutions providing services to working families, it is the intent of the Legislature that families that are former recipients of aid, or are transitioning off aid, receive their child care assistance in the same fashion as other low-income working families. Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature that families no longer rely on county welfare departments to obtain child care subsidies beyond the time they are receiving other services from the welfare department.
(c) A county welfare department shall not administer the third stage of child care for CalWORKs recipients except to the extent to which it delivered those services to families receiving, or within one year of having received, Aid to Families with Dependent Children prior to the enactment of this section.
(d) This chapter does not preclude county welfare departments from operating an alternative payment program under contract with the department to serve families referred by child protective services.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10373.

10373. Child care during the third stage may be funded with moneys dedicated to current and former recipients of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3, or any successor program, including the federal funds appropriated to alternative payment program contractors in the 1996–97 fiscal year using the Budget Act’s Section 28 process as described in subdivision (b). Nothing shall prevent child care services provided under stage three from being funded with moneys from other federal or state sources. Nothing in this chapter shall preclude current and former recipients of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3, or any successor program, from receiving child care services pursuant to other provisions of this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10373.5.

10373.5. It is the intent of the Legislature that the department work with Head Start and state preschool programs to generate extended-day and evening care for recipients of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3, or any successor program, through recruiting and training parents to be licensed and license-exempt care providers and shall facilitate connections between Head Start and state preschool contractors and child care certificate administrators, including counties and other alternative payment programs, so that funds available for Sections 10371, 10372, and 10372.5 cover the cost of this care.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10374.

10374. It is the intent of the Legislature that each county receive funding for child care services provided in stage two that is at least equivalent to the amount of funding received in the 1996–97 fiscal year for income disregard pursuant to Section 11451.6 and supplemental child care pursuant to Section 11451.7.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10375.

10375. (a) By January 31, 1998, the State Department of Education and the State Department of Social Services shall design a form for license-exempt child care providers to use for certifying health and safety requirements to the extent required by federal law. Until the form is adopted, the information required pursuant to Section 11324 shall continue to be maintained by the county welfare department or contractor, as appropriate.
(b) By January 31, 1998, the State Department of Education and the State Department of Social Services shall do both of the following:
(1) Design a standard process for complaints by parents about the provision of child care that is exempt from licensure.
(2) Design, in consultation with local planning councils, a single application for all child care programs and all families.
(c) (1) County welfare departments and alternative payment programs shall encourage all providers who are licensed or who are exempt from licensure and who are providing care under Section 10371, 10372, or 10372.5 to secure training and education in basic child development.
(2) Child care provider job training provided to CalWORKs recipients that is funded by either the State Department of Education or the State Department of Social Services shall include information on becoming a licensed child care provider.
(d) The department shall increase consumer education and consumer awareness activities so that parents will have the information needed to seek child care of high quality. High-quality child care shall include both licensed and license-exempt care.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 1.8 - Child Care and Development Services Act › CHAPTER 21 - Child Care for Recipients of the CalWORKs Program › Section 10375.5.

10375.5. Notwithstanding any other confidentiality requirement, the government or private agency administering subsidized child care services shall share information necessary for the administration of the child care programs pursuant to this chapter and the CalWORKs program pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3, for the time period for which the person receives child care.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)