§ 8215

(a) The department shall annually monitor funding used in, and hours of service provided in, the California state preschool program, and shall annually report to the Department of Finance and to the Legislature a statewide summary identifying the estimated funding used for, and the number of, preschool age children receiving part-day preschool and wraparound childcare services. The annual report shall include a comparison to the prior year on a county-by-county basis.

(b) The monitoring shall include projections of total enrollment, age of enrolled, and contract earnings, and the projections shall be collected from providers through surveys by October 1 of each fiscal year.

(Amended by Stats. 2026, Ch. 25, Sec. 10. (AB 150) Effective June 29, 2026.)