Bill Text: MI SB0232 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Human services; children's services; child care executive partnership program; create, and provide funding. Amends 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.111 - 722.128) by adding sec. 16a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-14 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0232 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0232-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 232
March 14, 2017, Introduced by Senators ANANICH, HOPGOOD, HERTEL, JOHNSON and BIEDA and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1973 PA 116, entitled
"An act to provide for the protection of children through the
licensing and regulation of child care organizations; to provide
for the establishment of standards of care for child care
organizations; to prescribe powers and duties of certain
departments of this state and adoption facilitators; to provide
penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
(MCL 722.111 to 722.128) by adding section 16a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 16a. (1) There is created a body corporate and politic
known as the child care executive partnership that shall establish
and govern the child care executive partnership program. The child
care executive partnership program is created to use state and
federal funds as incentives for matching local funds derived from
local governments, employers, charitable foundations, and other
sources so that communities of this state may create local flexible
partnerships with employers. The child care executive partnership
program funds shall be used at the discretion of local communities
to meet the needs of working parents. A child care purchasing pool
shall be developed with the state, federal, and local funds to
provide subsidies to low-income working parents whose family income
does not exceed the allowable income for any federally subsidized
child care program with a dollar-for-dollar match from employers,
local government, and other matching contributions. The funds used
from the child care purchasing pool must be used to supplement or
extend the use of existing public or private funds for direct
services.
(2) The child care executive partnership, staffed by the
department of education, shall consist of a representative of the
governor and 9 members of the corporate or child care community,
appointed by the governor. Members shall serve for a period of 4
years, except that the representative of the governor shall serve
at the pleasure of the governor.
(3) The child care executive partnership shall be chaired by a
member chosen by a majority vote and shall meet at least quarterly
and at other times upon the call of the chair. The child care
executive partnership may use any method of telecommunications to
conduct meetings, including establishing a quorum through
telecommunications, only if the public is given proper notice of a
telecommunications meeting and reasonable access to observe and,
when appropriate, participate.
(4) Members shall serve without compensation but may be
reimbursed for per diem and travel expenses in accordance with
state law.
(5) The child care executive partnership shall have all the
powers and authority, not explicitly prohibited by law, necessary
to carry out and effectuate the purposes of this section, as well
as the functions, duties, and responsibilities of the partnership,
including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) Making recommendations concerning the implementation and
coordination of the school readiness program.
(b) Soliciting, accepting, receiving, investing, and expending
funds from public or private sources.
(c) Contracting with public or private entities as necessary.
(d) Approving an annual budget.
(e) Providing a report to the governor, the speaker of the
house of representatives, and the senate majority leader on or
before December 1 of each year.
(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection,
the body corporate and politic previously established by prior law
is the body corporate and politic for purposes of this section and
shall continue in existence. All member terms of the existing body
corporate and politic expire as of September 30, 2020, and new
members shall be appointed beginning October 1, 2020, in accordance
with this subsection.
(7) The legislature shall annually determine the amount of
state or federal low-income child care money that shall be used to
create child care executive partnership program child care
purchasing pools in counties chosen by the child care executive
partnership provided that at least 2 of the counties have
populations of no more than 300,000. The legislature shall annually
review the effectiveness of the child care purchasing pool program
and reevaluate the percentage of additional state or federal funds,
if any, that can be used for the child care purchasing pool
program's expansion. To ensure a seamless service delivery and ease
of access for families, the department of education shall
administer the child care purchasing pool funds.
(8) The department of education, in conjunction with the child
care executive partnership, shall develop procedures for
disbursement of funds through the child care purchasing pools. In
order to be considered for funding, an early learning coalition or
the department of education must commit to all of the following:
(a) Matching the state purchasing pool funds on a dollar-for-
dollar basis.
(b) Expending only public funds that are matched by employers,
local government, and other matching contributors who contribute to
the child care purchasing pool. Parents shall also pay a fee that
may not be less than the amount identified in the early learning
coalition's school readiness program sliding fee scale.
(9) Each early learning coalition shall establish a community
child care task force for each child care purchasing pool. The
community child care task force must be composed of employers,
parents, private child care providers, and 1 representative from
the local children's services council, if a children's services
council exists in the area of the child care purchasing pool. The
early learning coalition is expected to recruit the child care task
force members from existing child care councils, commissions, or
task forces already operating in the area of a child care
purchasing pool. A majority of the child care task force shall
consist of employers.
(10) Each participating early learning coalition shall develop
a plan for the use of child care purchasing pool funds. The plan
must show how many children will be served by the child care
purchasing pool, how many will be new to receiving child care
services, and how the early learning coalition intends to attract
new employers and their employees to the child care executive
partnership program.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
