BILL NUMBER: AB 1199INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Brownley FEBRUARY 18, 2011 An act to add and repeal Section 8227.1 to the Education Code, relating to child care. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1199, as introduced, Brownley. Child care: centralized eligibility lists. Existing law requires the alternative payment agency in each county, to the extent that funding is made available, to design, maintain, and administer a system to consolidate local child care waiting lists so as to establish a countywide centralized eligibility list. Existing law requires information collected for the centralized eligibility lists to be reported to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on an annual basis on the date and in the manner determined by the State Department of Education. This bill would require the State Department of Education, to the extent that funding is made available, to, by January 1, 2013, conduct an evaluation for submission to the Legislature of the centralized eligibility lists maintained and administered by the alternative payment agency in each county to determine their success in enabling families with child care needs to obtain information on available child care programs and to obtain care, as specified. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 8227.1 is added to the Education Code, to read: 8227.1. (a) To the extent that funding is made available for this purpose through the annual Budget Act, the State Department of Education shall, by January 1, 2013, conduct an evaluation of the centralized eligibility lists maintained and administered by the alternative payment agency in each county to determine their success in enabling families with child care needs to obtain information on available child care programs and to obtain care. The department shall submit this evaluation to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. (b) (1) The evaluation described in subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code. (2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2017.