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PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 484 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 9, by inserting after line 35 the
1 3 following:
1 4 "Sec. . CHILD DAY CARE PROGRAM.
1 5 1. There is appropriated from the general fund of
1 6 the state to the department of general services for
1 7 the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1995, and ending
1 8 June 30, 1996, the following amount or so much thereof
1 9 as is necessary, to be used for the purposes
1 10 designated:
1 11 For planning, design, site acquisition and
1 12 preparation, and other expenditures necessary to
1 13 establish a fee-based child day care program available
1 14 to public employees officed at or near the capitol
1 15 complex:
1 16 .................................................. $ 600,000
1 17 2. Notwithstanding section 8.33, the moneys
1 18 appropriated in this section that remain unencumbered
1 19 and unobligated on June 30 of the fiscal year in which
1 20 the moneys were appropriated, shall not revert to the
1 21 general fund of the state but shall remain available
1 22 for expenditure for the purposes designated during the
1 23 succeeding fiscal year.
1 24 3. The general assembly considers child day care
1 25 to be an important service for employers, employees,
1 26 and their children. Employer-supported child care can
1 27 have a positive impact upon employee morale and
1 28 retention and can positively affect the children who
1 29 are receiving child care services. High quality child
1 30 care is of significant value to employers. It is
1 31 believed that a quality, on-site child care program
1 32 available to the children of state employees will
1 33 provide a model for other employers in this state to
1 34 emulate.
1 35 4. a. The legislative council is requested to
1 36 appoint a capitol complex child day care program
1 37 steering committee to provide direction to the
1 38 department of general services in developing facility
1 39 plans, establishing the facilities, developing
1 40 operation policies, contracting with a vendor to
1 41 operate the program, and other decisions involving
1 42 establishment and operation of the program. The
1 43 steering committee shall utilize the March 1990
1 44 consultant report to the capitol complex ad hoc
1 45 committee on child care, particularly the intermediate
1 46 quality recommendations, in its decision making.
1 47 b. The steering committee membership shall include
1 48 members of the general assembly; representatives of
1 49 the departments of general services, personnel, human
1 50 services, and education; employees officed at the
2 1 capitol complex who purchase child day care services;
2 2 a representative of the state board of regents center
2 3 for early childhood education; a representative of the
2 4 Iowa state university of science and technology early
2 5 childhood education programs; and other persons
2 6 knowledgeable concerning child day care programs.
2 7 5. In consultation with the steering committee,
2 8 the director of the department of general services
2 9 shall retain a consultant to oversee the process of
2 10 developing the program and shall contract with a
2 11 vendor to manage the program.
2 12 6. The program shall be designed to operate with a
2 13 capacity of 150 children and to regularly serve
2 14 infants, toddlers, preschool, school age, and mildly
2 15 ill children."
2 16 #2. By renumbering as necessary.
2 17
2 18
2 19
2 20 JOHNIE HAMMOND
2 21 SF 484.310 76
2 22 jp/cf
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