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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 2173

    Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Health & Human Services Appropriations

12  offered the following:

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14         Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 2, between lines 20 and 21 of the bill

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18         Section 1.  A new subsection (9) is added, section

19  402.27, Florida Statutes, and current subsection (9) is

20  renumbered as subsection (10), to read:

21         402.27  Child care and early childhood resource and

22  referral.--The Department of Children and Family Services

23  shall establish a statewide child care resource and referral

24  network. Preference shall be given to using the already

25  established central agencies for subsidized child care as the

26  child care resource and referral agency.  If the agency cannot

27  comply with the requirements to offer the resource information

28  component or does not want to offer that service, the

29  Department of Children and Family Services shall select the

30  resource information agency based upon a request for proposal.

31  At least one child care resource and referral agency must be

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 2173

    Amendment No. 01 (for drafter's use only)





 1  established in each district of the department, but no more

 2  than one may be established in any county.  Child care

 3  resource and referral agencies shall provide the following

 4  services:

 5         (9)  Assistance to families in identifying summer

 6  recreation camp and summer day camp programs and in evaluating

 7  the health and safety qualities of summer recreation camp and

 8  summer day camp programs and in evaluating the health and

 9  safety qualities of summer camp programs. Contingent upon

10  specific appropriation, a checklist of important health and

11  safety qualities that parents can use to choose their summer

12  camp programs will be developed and distributed in a manner

13  that will reach parents interested in such programs for their

14  children.

15         (10)(9)  A child care facility licensed under s.

16  402.305 and licensed and registered family day care homes must

17  provide the statewide child care and resource and referral

18  agencies with the following information annually:

19         (a)  Type of program.

20         (b)  Hours of service.

21         (c)  Ages of children served.

22         (d)  Fees and eligibility for services.

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26  And the title is amended as follows:

27         On page 1, line 3, after the first semicolon

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30         amending s. 402.27, F.S.; relating to summer

31         recreation and day camp programs;

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