Introduced Version
SENATE BILL No. 367
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 12-17.2-7.7.
Synopsis: Child care for military families. Allows the family and
social services administration to provide grants to assist licensed child
care centers located near military bases in obtaining the national
accreditation necessary for participation in a federal Military Child
Care in Your Neighborhood fee assistance program.
Effective: July 1, 2023.
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January 17, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Family and Children
Services.
2023 IN 367—LS 7053/DI 119 Introduced
First Regular Session of the 123rd General Assembly (2023)
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SENATE BILL No. 367
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
human services.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 12-17.2-7.7 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
2 AS A NEW CHAPTER TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
3 JULY 1, 2023]:
4 Chapter 7.7. Military Child Care Grant Program
5 Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "fund" refers to the military
6 child care grant fund established by section 3 of this chapter.
7 Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "MCCYN program" refers to the
8 Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood fee assistance program
9 of a branch of the armed forces of the United States.
10 Sec. 3. (a) The military child care grant fund is established to
11 provide grants to child care centers for the purpose of assisting a
12 child care center in obtaining the national accreditation necessary
13 to participate in an MCCYN program.
14 (b) The office of the secretary shall administer the fund.
15 (c) The fund consists of:
16 (1) money appropriated to the fund by the general assembly;
17 (2) federal funding allocated to the fund by the office of the
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1 secretary; and
2 (3) gifts, grants, devises, bequests, and other donations made
3 to the fund.
4 (d) The expenses of administering the fund shall be paid from
5 money in the fund.
6 (e) Money in the fund at the end of a state fiscal year does not
7 revert to the state general fund.
8 Sec. 4. (a) To the extent sufficient money is available in the fund,
9 the office of the secretary shall provide a grant from the fund to a
10 child care center that:
11 (1) applies for a grant in the form and manner specified by the
12 office of the secretary; and
13 (2) is determined by the office of the secretary to be:
14 (A) licensed under IC 12-17.2-4; and
15 (B) located not more than thirty (30) miles from an active
16 military base (as defined in IC 36-1-4-20).
17 (b) The office of the secretary shall calculate the amount of a
18 grant to a child care center under subsection (a) based on:
19 (1) the available balance in the fund; and
20 (2) an assessment by the office of the secretary of the actions
21 needed to be taken by the child care center to attain eligibility
22 for the MCCYN program of one (1) or more branches of the
23 armed forces of the United States whose personnel serve at
24 the active military base near which the child care center is
25 located as determined under subsection (a)(2)(B).
26 (c) A child care center that receives a grant under this section
27 shall use the grant funds solely to defray expenses associated with
28 taking the actions identified by the office of the secretary under
29 subsection (b)(2).
30 Sec. 5. The office of the secretary shall adopt rules under
31 IC 4-22-2 necessary to implement this chapter.
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