Bill Text: PA HB2204 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishing the Military Child-Care Assistance Program and its operation.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-19 - Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS [HB2204 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2204-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3079
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2204 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY MARSICO, ADOLPH, BAKER, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BISHOP, BOYD, BRADFORD, BRENNAN, BROOKS, BROWN, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, CAUSER, CLYMER, DENLINGER, EVERETT, FLECK, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GROVE, GRUCELA, HARHART, HARKINS, HARRIS, HENNESSEY, HESS, HORNAMAN, M. KELLER, W. KELLER, KNOWLES, KORTZ, KOTIK, LONGIETTI, MANN, McGEEHAN, MICOZZIE, MILLER, MOUL, MUNDY, MURPHY, MURT, O'NEILL, PALLONE, PAYNE, PAYTON, PHILLIPS, PICKETT, PYLE, RAPP, READSHAW, REICHLEY, SAYLOR, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, STEVENSON, SWANGER, VULAKOVICH, WATERS AND YOUNGBLOOD, JANUARY 19, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, JANUARY 19, 2010
AN ACT
Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, establishing the Military Child-Care
Assistance Program and its operation.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 51 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 7320. Military Child-Care Assistance Program.
(a) Establishment.--The Military Child-Care Assistance
Program is hereby established. The program shall pay for child
care to Pennsylvania families who have one or more parents who
are federally deployed for wartime service.
(b) Administration.--
(1) The department shall contract with a nonprofit
entity to administer the program.
(2) The department shall promulgate guidelines and
regulations necessary to administer the program.
(c) Eligibility.--
(1) Any qualified Pennsylvania resident who is serving
in the active military, reserves or National Guard and who is
currently deployed in an active military operation or
national emergency shall be eligible.
(2) Residents who received child care prior to the
deployment shall be eligible only for the cost of any
additional hours of care which resulted from the deployment.
(3) A resident is ineligible for child care under this
section if the resident receives child-care services from the
United States military.
(d) Funding.--The Military Child-Care Assistance Program
shall be funded by the Military Family Relief Assistance Fund
established under section 7319 (relating to military family
relief assistance).
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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