House File 156 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY REICHERT Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act providing an appropriation for a pilot project to 2 implement a child care center that operates twenty=four hours 3 per day, seven days per week. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 1893HH 83 6 jp/nh/24 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. 24=7 CHILD CARE PILOT PROJECT. 1 2 1. There is appropriated from the general fund of the 1 3 state to the department of human services for the fiscal year 1 4 beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2010, the 1 5 following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be 1 6 used for the purposes designated: 1 7 For a grant for a pilot project in accordance with this 1 8 section for a child care center to make child care services 1 9 available twenty=four hours per day, seven days per week: 1 10 .................................................. $ 250,000 1 11 2. The department shall utilize a request for proposals 1 12 process to select a vendor for the pilot project. The purpose 1 13 of the pilot project is to provide safe, high=quality child 1 14 care twenty=four hours per day, seven days per week to 1 15 accommodate a wide variety of work schedules. The pilot 1 16 project must serve children living in both rural and urban 1 17 areas. 1 18 3. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in 1 19 this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the 1 20 close of the fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain 1 21 available for expenditure for the purposes designated until 1 22 the close of the succeeding fiscal year. 1 23 EXPLANATION 1 24 This bill provides an appropriation to the department of 1 25 human services for a pilot project to implement a child care 1 26 center that operates 24 hours per day, seven days per week. 1 27 The purpose of the pilot project is to provide safe, 1 28 high=quality care at all times to accommodate a wide variety 1 29 of work schedules. The pilot project is required to serve 1 30 children living in both rural and urban areas. A nonreversion 1 31 clause authorizes money remaining unexpended at the close of 1 32 the fiscal year to carry forward for expenditure in the 1 33 succeeding fiscal year. 1 34 LSB 1893HH 83 1 35 jp/nh/24