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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 237A.30 HIGH QUALITY CHILD DAY
1 2 CARE PROVIDERS.
1 3 1. The department shall accept nationally recognized
1 4 accreditations in identifying and listing high quality child
1 5 day care providers. Any registered family or group home or
1 6 licensed child day care provider in this state that is
1 7 accredited in good standing by the national association for
1 8 the education of young children or the national association
1 9 for family child care shall be included in the listing.
1 10 2. Providers included in the listing which remain in good
1 11 standing with the accrediting body and with state regulation
1 12 shall be designated as a gold seal quality child day care
1 13 provider. Any provider included in the listing may publicly
1 14 utilize the designation as a gold seal quality child day care
1 15 provider. Child day care resource and referral services shall
1 16 be encouraged to make use of the providers holding this
1 17 designation as a resource in quality improvement efforts and
1 18 to identify these providers in making referrals to the public.
1 19 3. Holders of the gold seal quality designation shall be
1 20 recognized annually in April during the week of national
1 21 recognition of young children. A recognition event shall be
1 22 hosted during that week by a committee which may include but
1 23 is not limited to the governor, legislative leaders,
1 24 department staff and other child care experts, and the
1 25 chairpersons and ranking members of the legislative committees
1 26 involved with regulation or funding of child day care.
1 27 4. Subject to the availability of funding, an eligible
1 28 holder of the gold seal quality designation receiving an
1 29 initial or renewal national accreditation may receive a one-
1 30 time cash award in the year of initial or renewal
1 31 accreditation on or after July 1, 1999. Holders of the
1 32 designation who received funding assistance to obtain the
1 33 initial or renewal national accreditation under a grant
1 34 administered by the child development coordinating council or
1 35 as part of being a federal head start program are not eligible
2 1 for the cash award. Eligible holders of the designation may
2 2 receive a cash award of two hundred fifty dollars for
2 3 registered family and group day care home providers and five
2 4 hundred dollars for licensed centers.
2 5 SF 306
2 6 jp/cc/26
Text: SF00305 Text: SF00307 Text: SF00300 - SF00399 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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