Bill Text: CA AB1754 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: State full-day preschool program: eligibility for enrollment: low income schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-08-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB1754 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1754-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
June 18, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 17, 2018 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1754 |
Introduced by Assembly Members McCarty, Friedman, Eduardo Garcia, and Bonta (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gonzalez Fletcher) |
January 03, 2018 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill, the Pre-K for All Act of 2018, would require the state to provide all 4-year-old children who meet those eligibility
requirements with access to early care and education programs.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 8236.02 is added to the Education Code, to read:8236.02.
Commencing with the 2019–20 school year, and notwithstanding any other law, each school district or public school, including a charter school, operating a full-day preschool program at any school that has at least 40 percent of its pupils being from low-income families, as specified pursuant to Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.), or a community-based organization that contracts with the above-described school or school district, shall enroll three-and four-year old children as defined by Section 8208, as follows:SEC. 2.
Section 8236.04 is added to the Education Code, to read:8236.04.
(a) The department, in consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services, shall develop and implement a process to use the participation data from the Medi-Cal program administered pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to verify income as established in the federal Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-265) and, to the extent permitted under federal law, directly certify children whose families meet the applicable income criteria into the full-day preschool programs operated at any school that has at least 40 percent of its pupils being from low-income families, as specified pursuant to Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq), or a community-based organization that contracts with the above-described school or school district.This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Pre-K for All Act of 2018.
(a)The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:
(1)Quality early learning and care for children from infancy to five years of ages, inclusive, is a sound and strategic investment to narrow achievement gaps that are present well before children enter kindergarten.
(2)In the annual Budget Act for the 2014–15 fiscal year, the Legislature and Governor committed to providing all low-income children with at least one year of early care and education programs.
(b)It is the intent of the state to ensure a fair start to all low-income children by providing quality early care and
education for all low-income children whose families wish to enroll them in early care and education programs.
The state shall provide all low-income four-year-old children, as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 8263, with access to early care and education programs.