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Measure AB 1471
Authors Soria  
Subject Resource and referral agencies.
Relating To relating to childcare.
Title An act to repeal and add Section 10224.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to childcare.
Last Action Dt 2025-03-28
State Amended Assembly
Status In Committee Process
Active? Y
Vote Required Majority
Appropriation No
Fiscal Committee Yes
Local Program No
Substantive Changes None
Urgency No
Tax Levy No
Leginfo Link Bill
Actions
2025-05-23     In committee: Held under submission.
2025-05-07     In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-30     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-01     Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
2025-03-28     Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
2025-03-28     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended.
2025-02-24     Read first time.
2025-02-22     From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-21     Introduced. To print.
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Amended Assembly     2025-03-28
Introduced     2025-02-21
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			<html:p>This bill would repeal that provision and instead require, upon appropriation by Legislature, local childcare resource and referral agencies to take specified actions relating to assisting childcare providers during a disaster, including, among others, implementing certain roles and responsibilities assigned to them in specified disaster plans. The bill would also require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network to implement the roles and
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								(a)
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								Upon appropriation by the Legislature, local childcare resource and referral agencies shall do all of the following:
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								Implement the roles and responsibilities assigned to resource and referral programs and resource and referral agencies in the disaster plans.
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								Support childcare providers in establishing and communicating their disaster response policies, helping to build relationships with local emergency response teams, and offering training to ensure that childcare providers’ emergency contact information and disaster preparedness supplies are up to date.
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								Provide relief
						and recovery to childcare providers, including, but not limited to, by serving as intermediaries to develop new, and support existing, childcare facilities and capacity, and by collaborating with the department to streamline and improve data collection processes.
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								The department shall, in consultation with childcare resource and referral agencies, establish data collection and reporting requirements relating to disasters and disaster preparedness for childcare providers, which shall include, but not be limited to, a requirement for childcare providers to provide data relating to childcare provider status, capacity, and vacancy.
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								Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network shall implement the roles and responsibilities assigned to it in the disaster plans.
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								For the purposes of this section, “disaster plans” means the California Child Care Disaster Plan 2016 and California’s Statewide Interagency Childcare Disaster Plan, published in October 2023.
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Last Version Text Digest Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law establishes childcare resource and referral programs to serve a defined geographic area and provide prescribed services. Among the services provided by these programs is the establishment of a referral process that responds to parental need for information and that makes referrals to licensed child daycare facilities, as specified. Existing law requires federal funds allocated to local childcare resource and referral agencies to support their continued participation in COVID-19 relief and recovery to be used to strengthen their role in serving as intermediaries to develop new, and support existing, childcare facilities and capacity and to streamline and improve data collection processes, as specified. This bill would repeal that provision and instead require, upon appropriation by Legislature, local childcare resource and referral agencies to take specified actions relating to assisting childcare providers during a disaster, including, among others, implementing certain roles and responsibilities assigned to them in specified disaster plans. The bill would also require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network to implement the roles and responsibilities assigned to it in those disaster plans. The bill would require the department, in consultation with local childcare resource and referral agencies, to establish data collection and reporting requirements relating to disasters and disaster preparedness for childcare providers.