Text: SF00305 Text: SF00307 Text: SF00300 - SF00399 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 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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