AB 603: Child care: alternative payment programs: child care providers: electronic payments: notice of service changes.

The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer child care and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age, inclusive. The act requires the department to contract with local contracting agencies to provide for alternative payment programs, and authorizes alternative payments to be made for child care services, as provided. The act requires child care providers authorized to provide services to submit to the alternative payment program a monthly attendance record or invoice for each child who received services, as provided. Existing law requires alternative payment programs to reimburse licensed child care providers in accordance with a biennial market rate survey, as provided.

This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2019, an alternative payment program to establish a program of electronic banking for payments made to licensed or license-exempt child care providers that have a contract with that alternative payment program, as provided. The bill would require, commencing July 1, 2019, alternative payment programs to provide notice to a child care provider of any changes to service, as provided.