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• ACR34 (Nakanishi) Resolution on Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week
  Designates April 15 – April 21, 2007 as “Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week” Status: Chapter 24, Statues of 2007
  
  
• AB194: Budget Committee
  Restores $5 million in funding to the state preschool budget item and assigns priority of these funds for wrap-around to children in PKFL. Status:  Chaptered 489, Statutes 2007
  
  
• SB80: Education budget trailer
  Encourages child care facilities to meet the same increased nutritional requirements for meals as schools in order to receive funding for meal subsidies. Contains other provisions. Status: Chapter 174, Statues 2007
  
  
• SB84: Human Services budget trailer
  Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to establish best statewide practices for the prevention, detection, identification, and investigation of improper payments in all subsidized child care programs. Suspends the trigger for increasing visits to community care facilities based on an increase in the number of total citations. Requires DSS to develop appropriate indicators with stakeholders to trigger an increase in licensing visits by February 1, 2008. Contains other provisions. Status:  Chapter 177, Statues 2007
  
• AB1685 (Garrick) - Before and After School Programs- Urgency Clause
  Increases reimbursement rates as a priority for existing before school programs. Amended to clarify that staff that work directly with the children are responsible for reporting outcome measures. Sponsor Governor Schwarzenegger Status:  Chapter 22, Statues 2007

NEW LAWS- Effective January 2008:

• AB304 (Huff)- Community Care Facilities: Disaster Plans
  Requires that a community care licensing facility provide a copy of their disaster and casualty plan to the local fire department, law enforcement agency, civil defense and other disaster authorities upon request. (According to the CDSS-policy unit, this bill does not apply to child care centers or family child care homes) Status:  Chapter 18, Statues of 2007
  
  
• AB905 (Arambula)- Child Care Subsidy Eligibility: Seek Work
  Allows the SPI to extend eligibility for subsidized child care by an additional 60 days in defined geographic areas where high unemployment or high numbers of seasonal agricultural jobs exist. Status:  Chapter 110, Statutes of 2007
  
  
• AB1080 (Mullin)- Preschool Clean-up
  Clarifies that funding for Program Literacy Coordinator is per class not per classroom and can be in either an LEA-based or participating program and clarifies that a funded program in a API deciles 1 –3 school district can remain in that school district even if the school district improves their deciles standing. Clarifies the legislative intent to offer full-day services. States that new grants can only be awarded from unallocated funds in the original grant or from expansion funds. Sponsored by CCDAA Status:  Chaptered 278, Statutes 2007
  
  
• B1571 (DeSaulnier)- Alternative Payment Reimbursement- Contingency Fund
  Authorizes APP’s to apply for funding up to 3% of their contract amount (or greater if funds are available) to cover reimbursable expenditures beyond their maximum reimbursable contract amount (MRA). Requires specified time frames for application and distribution of these funds and deletes the prohibition of applying for contingency funds for consecutive years. Intended to encourage the full expenditure of available APP funds. Amended to require the CDE to distribute funding proportionately according to the approved amount. Sponsor California Alternative Payment Program Association- Status: Chaptered 415, Statutes 2007
  
  
• SB7 (Oropeza) - Smoking in Cars
  Makes it an infraction punishable by a fine not exceeding $100 for a person to smoke a pipe, cigar, or cigarette in a motor vehicle, whether in motion or at rest, in which there is a minor.
  
  Prohibits a law enforcement officer from stopping a vehicle for the sole purpose of determining whether the driver was in violation of the antismoking provisions or for the sole purpose of determining whether a driver with a provisional license is in violation of the antismoking provisions. Status:  Chaptered 425, Statutes 2007
  
  
• SB473 (Cox)- State Agencies Fingerprinting vendors
  Would restrict state agencies ability to direct Trustline applicants (among other non-law enforcement professions) to specific Live Scan vendors thus eliminating the benefit of the Trustline Automated Registration Process and increasing the time for potential trustline clearances. Status: Chaptered 248, Statutes 2007