SB 931 — AN ACT CONCERNING PAYMENTS TO CHILD CARE PROVIDERS.

(1) A priority intake and eligibility system with preference given to serving (A) recipients of temporary family assistance who are employed or engaged in employment activities under the Department of Social Services' "Jobs First" program, (B) working families whose temporary family assistance was discontinued not more than five years prior to the date of application for the child care subsidy program, (C) teen parents, (D) low-income working families, (E) adoptive families of children who were adopted from the Department of Children and Families and who are granted a waiver of income standards under subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of this section, (F) working families who are at risk of welfare LCO 4494 \\PRDFS1\SCOUSERS\FORZANOF\WS\2019SB-00931-R01 of 5 SB.docx Raised Bill No.

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[that is three or four years of age and each child that is five years of age who is not eligible to enroll in school, pursuant to section 10-15c, while maintaining services to children under three years of age under this section.] For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, and each fiscal year thereafter, any amount of state financial assistance received pursuant to a contract entered into under this subsection over the amount received for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, shall be used exclusively to increase the salaries of early childhoodLCO educators4494 employed{\\PRDFS1\SCOUSERS\FORZANOF\WS\2019SB-009313 atof the5 childR01-SB.docx care} center.Raised Bill No.

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(b) (1) For the fiscal [years] year ending June 30, 2015, [to June 30, 2019, inclusive,]inclusive] and each fiscal year thereafter, the per child cost of the Office of Early Childhood school readiness program offered by a school readiness provider shall not exceed [eight] nine thousand nine hundred twenty-seven dollars.

The commissioner may revise the rates for the school readiness program during a fiscal year if the commissioner determines that such revised rates are necessary to improve quality of, increase access to or fill spaces in school readiness programs.] LCO 4494 {\\PRDFS1\SCOUSERS\FORZANOF\WS\2019SB-00934 of 5 R01-SB.docx } Raised Bill No.

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To require Care4Kids program payments to be at least equal to the seventy-fifth percentile of the market cost of child care;

to require that any increase in funding to child care centers and school readiness program providers are to be used for increasing educator salaries;

and to reestablish school readiness grant rates in the general statutes and to increase such rates.

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Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.] LCO No.

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