Bill Text: CA AB2302 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Child care and developmental services: facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB2302 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2302-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2302	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mullin

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 8278.3 of the Education Code, relating to
child care and development services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2302, as amended, Mullin. Child care and developmental
services: facilities.
   Existing law establishes the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund,
a continuously appropriated fund in the State Treasury, to provide
funding for the renovation, repair, improvement, or purchase of child
care facilities for lease to school districts and contracting
agencies that provide child care and developmental services pursuant
to the Child Care and Development Services Act. Existing law provides
for payment by the school district or contracting agency of a
leasing fee over a 10-year period, after which title transfers to the
district or agency.
    This bill would extend the period of the lease from 10
years to 14 years.   The bill would require the period
of the lease to be   10 years or a different term as
established by regulations.  The bill would require the
department to adopt regulations  to establish priorities,
forms, policies, and procedures  for implementing and
managing the fund, and to promote the availability of the fund on its
Internet Web site.  The bill would provide that eligible
applicants may apply for, and receive, a funding award from the fund
up to $400,000 for a single, freestanding relocatable or modular
building, and up to $200,000 for each additional module added to an
existing building. The bill would also require that a funding award
not exceed $900,000 for any applicant for the renovation, repair, or
improvement of an existing building.   The bill would
require the regulations to include, among other things, the
development of forms, policies, and procedures for the management of
the fund and the te   rms of the loan. 
   The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that $7,000,000
shall be appropriated annually in the Budget Act, to fund specified
purposes related to child care facilities.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 8278.3 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   8278.3.  (a) (1) The Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund is
hereby established in the State Treasury to provide funding for the
renovation, repair, or improvement of an existing building to make
the building suitable for licensure for child care and development
services and for the purchase of new  modular or 
relocatable child care facilities for lease to school districts and
contracting agencies that provide child care and development services
pursuant to this chapter. The Superintendent may transfer state
funds appropriated for child care facilities into this fund for
allocation to school districts and contracting agencies, as
specified, for the purchase, transportation, and installation of
facilities for replacement and expansion of capacity. School
districts and contracting agencies using facilities made available by
the use of these funds shall be charged a leasing fee, either at a
fair market value for those facilities or at an amount sufficient to
amortize the cost of purchase and relocation, whichever amount is
lower, over a  14-year   10-year  period
 or over a term established pursuant to subdivision (e)  .
Upon full repayment of the purchase and relocation costs, title shall
transfer from the State of California to the school district or
contracting agency. The Superintendent shall deposit all revenue
derived from the lease payments into the Child Care Facilities
Revolving Fund.
   (2) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all
moneys in the fund, including moneys deposited from lease payments,
are continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the
Superintendent for expenditure pursuant to this article.
   (b) On or before August 1 of each fiscal year, the Superintendent
shall submit to the Department of Finance and the Legislative Analyst'
s Office a report detailing the number of funding requests received
and their purpose, the types of agencies that received funding from
the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund, the increased capacity that
these facilities generated, a description of the manner in which the
facilities are being used, and a projection of the lease payments
collected and the funds available for future use.
   (c) A school district or county office of education that provides
child care pursuant to the California School Age Families Education
Program (Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 54740) of Chapter 9 of
Part 29 of Division 4 of Title 2) is eligible to apply for and
receive funding pursuant to this section.
   (d) The department shall adopt regulations  to establish
priorities, forms, policies, and procedures  for
implementing and managing the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund
that set expansion of capacity, including expansion of capacity of
existing sites, as a priority, and shall promote the availability of
the fund on its Internet Web site. 
   (e) (1) A funding award under this section shall not exceed nine
hundred thousand dollars ($900,000) per award for the renovation,
repair, or improvement of an existing building.  
   (2) An eligible applicant may apply for, and receive, a funding
award up to four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for a single,
freestanding relocatable or modular building consisting of three
12-by-40-foot modules, and up to two hundred thousand dollars
($200,000) per additional module added to an existing building.
 
   (e) The regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (d) shall
include, but not be limited to, all of the following:  
   (1) Development of forms, policies, and procedures for the
management of the fund.  
   (2) Establishment of project funding eligibility criteria, which
shall include authorizing the expenditure of funds for the purchase
of new relocatable or modular buildings and for the renovation of
existing buildings that will expand capacity.  
   (3) The maximum amount of the awards.  
   (4) The terms of the loans. 
   (f) It is the intent of the Legislature to annually appropriate
the amount of seven million dollars ($7,000,000) in the Budget Act to
fund purposes specified in Provision 3 of Item 6110-194-0001 of
Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2013.
                                  
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