Section 8265 Of Article 11. Reimbursement Rates From California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 11.
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. (a) The Superintendent shall implement a plan that
establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates,
which vary with the length of the program year and the hours of
service.
(1) Parent fees shall be used to pay reasonable and necessary
costs for providing additional services.
(2) When establishing standards and assigned reimbursement rates,
the Superintendent shall confer with applicant agencies.
(3) The reimbursement system, including standards and rates, shall
be submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
(4) The Superintendent may establish any regulations he or she
deems advisable concerning conditions of service and hours of
enrollment for children in the programs.
(b) The standard reimbursement rate shall be nine thousand five
hundred seventy-two dollars and fifty cents ($9,572.50) per unit of
average daily enrollment for a 250-day year and, commencing with the
2016-17 fiscal year, shall be increased by the cost-of-living
adjustment granted by the Legislature annually pursuant to Section
42238.15. The full-day state preschool reimbursement rate shall be
nine thousand six hundred thirty-two dollars and fifty cents
($9,632.50) per unit of average daily enrollment for a 250-day year
and, commencing with the 2016-17 fiscal year, shall be increased by
the cost-of-living adjustment granted by the Legislature annually
pursuant to Section 42238.15.
(c) The plan shall require agencies having an assigned
reimbursement rate above the current year standard reimbursement rate
to reduce costs on an incremental basis to achieve the standard
reimbursement rate.
(d) (1) The plan shall provide for adjusting reimbursement on a
case-by-case basis, in order to maintain service levels for agencies
currently at a rate less than the standard reimbursement rate.
Assigned reimbursement rates shall be increased only on the basis of
one or more of the following:
(A) Loss of program resources from other sources.
(B) Need of an agency to pay the same child care rates as those
prevailing in the local community.
(C) Increased costs directly attributable to new or different
regulations.
(D) Documented increased costs necessary to maintain the prior
year's level of service and ensure the continuation of threatened
programs.
(2) Child care agencies funded at the lowest rates shall be given
first priority for increases.
(e) The plan shall provide for expansion of child development
programs at no more than the standard reimbursement rate for that
fiscal year.
(f) The Superintendent may reduce the percentage of reduction for
a public agency that satisfies any of the following:
(1) Serves more than 400 children.
(2) Has in effect a collective bargaining agreement.
(3) Has other extenuating circumstances that apply, as determined
by the Superintendent.