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| SPONSOR: | Lopez | DATE TYPED: | 2/9/00 | HB | |||
| SHORT TITLE: | Reimbursement Rates for Child Care Providers | SB | 283 | ||||
| ANALYST: | Segura | ||||||
| Recurring
or Non-Rec |
Fund
Affected | ||||
| FY00 | FY01 | FY00 | FY01 | ||
| $ 3,400.0 | Recurring | GF | |||
(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Duplicates/Conflicts with/Companion to/Relates to
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD)
LFC Files
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
Senate Bill 283 appropriates $3,400.0 from the general fund to CYFD for funding an increase in reimbursement rates for child care providers in urban areas. This is based on a market rate survey.
Significant Issues
Senate Bill 283 contains an emergency clause. The funding is available for FY00 and FY01 and will revert any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY01.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
Senate Bill 283 appropriates $3,400.0 from the general fund and is appropriated for FY00 and FY01.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
The CYFD already is administering child care programs, the enactment of this legislation would have minimal administrative impact to the department.
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
In FY00 legislature appropriated $3,500.0 from TANF fund to support approximately sixty-five percent of the cost to reach market rate. The justification presented by the department is based on a 1997 department market survey; the rate paid to providers is considerably below market rate in many categories of child care.
The CYFD requested an additional $2,400.0 to increase the reimbursement rates for child care in FY01, which according to the department would fund the remaining need to reach the market rate. The $2,400.0 is included in the version of HB-2.
POSSIBLE QUESTION
Is the appropriation of $3,400.0 in Senate Bill 283 an additional amount to the $5,900.0 already in HB-2 for child care rate increases? Is the market rate survey different than the one cited by CYFD?
RS/prr