§ 10284

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10280, the payment made to a child care facility (a) with authorization for payments from an alternative payment program or a county welfare department, (b) operating under licensing standards for child day care facilities specified by Sections 1500 et seq. of the Health and Safety Code and by Title 22 of the California Administrative Code, and (c) with less than a majority of subsidized children enrolled in the facility, shall be the same as the fee paid for the same service by families of nonsubsidized children.

(b) Each alternative payment system or county welfare department shall provide documentation that subsidized children, as necessary and appropriate, shall receive supportive services through county welfare departments, resource and referral programs, other existing community resources, or all of them.

(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)