Early childhood education and childcare.
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Fiscal committee
No
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No
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
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Overview
This bill makes changes to California’s system for providing early childhood education and childcare subsidies. It extends eligibility periods for families receiving services if they add another child to their care, simplifies reporting requirements for childcare providers, and extends the monthly ‘cost of care plus rate’ for family childcare providers through June 30, 2026. The bill also suspends annual cost-of-living adjustments for these programs in certain years and aims to shift the state away from using regional market rate surveys to determine reimbursement rates, instead relying on a new alternative methodology.
Key provisions
- Extends childcare eligibility periods for families adding another child.
- Removes the requirement for a statewide report on preschool age children receiving part-day preschool and wraparound childcare services.
- Reduces the documented need for reimbursement to childcare providers based on daily rates to 5 hours.
- Extends the monthly ‘cost of care plus rate’ for family childcare providers through June 30, 2026, with a formula for adjusting the rate.
- Suspends the annual cost-of-living adjustment for childcare and development programs for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
- Establishes a new reimbursement system plan with reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates.
- Extends the timeframe for quarterly updates on reimbursement rate implementation.
- Transitions away from using regional market rate surveys to determine reimbursement rates, adopting an alternative methodology instead.
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Primary sponsor
Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review
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