Senate Bill sb1866c1

    Florida Senate - 2001                           CS for SB 1866

    By the Committee on Children and Families; and Senator Dawson





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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to subsidized child care;

  3         amending s. 402.3015, F.S.; requiring the

  4         Social Services Estimating Conference to

  5         determine utilization rates for child care

  6         funding categories; requiring that surplus

  7         child care funds be used to provide child care

  8         for income eligible families; providing an

  9         effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Subsection (10) of section 402.3015,

14  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

15         402.3015  Subsidized child care program; purpose; fees;

16  contracts.--

17         (10)  A family that is eligible to participate in the

18  subsidized child care program shall be considered a needy

19  family for purposes of the program funded through the federal

20  Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant, to

21  the extent permitted by the appropriation of funds. The Social

22  Services Estimating Conference shall determine and agree to by

23  May 31 of each year the projected utilization rates for the

24  temporary cash assistance and welfare transition child care

25  funding category and the working poor child care funding

26  category. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 216, if a

27  surplus is projected in the temporary cash assistance and

28  welfare transition child care funding category and there is a

29  determined need in the working poor child care funding

30  category, the surplus funds shall be used to provide subsidies

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    Florida Senate - 2001                           CS for SB 1866
    300-1914-01




  1  for families who are income eligible and served in the working

  2  poor child care funding category.

  3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  4  law.

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  6          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  7                         Senate Bill 1866

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    Requires the Social Services Estimating Conference to
10  determine and agree to the utilization rates for the temporary
    cash assistance and welfare transition child care funding
11  category and the working poor child care funding category by
    May 31 of each year.
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    Provides for the use of surplus funds in the temporary cash
13  assistance and welfare transition funding category for income
    eligible families in the working poor category without
14  adherence to the budget amendment process of ch. 216, F.S.

15  Provides for the bill to become effective upon becoming law,
    rather than July 1, 2001.
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