Cal. Code Regs. tit. 25 § 8254

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 8254 - Eligible Project and Program Priorities

(a) To be eligible to receive program assistance, the proposed project shall create new child care and development capacity, or preserve capacity that would otherwise be lost without the program assistance.

(b) To be eligible to receive program assistance, the proposed project or applicant must also meet one of the following program priorities:

(1) More than fifty percent (50%) of the capacity being created or preserved shall be for any combination of:

(A) Infant care for children from birth to three (3) years of age;

(B) After school care for children from five (5) to fourteen (14) years of age;

(C) Non-traditional operating hours care (e.g. during evenings and weekends);

(D) Serve special needs children. "Special needs" means children with professionally diagnosed disabilities which may include physical, mental, and/or medical impairments; or

(2) The applicant currently operates a facility on or adjacent to a public school, the facility has lost capacity at the school as a result of the class size reduction program, and the proposed project will replace the lost capacity; or

(3) The applicant is currently under contract with the California Department of Education to administer state and federally-funded child care and development programs; or

(4) More than fifty percent (50%) of the capacity that will be created or preserved by the proposed project will serve children from "Welfare-to-Work" families or other lower income families.

(c) Thirty percent (30%) of the funds made available from the Loan Guaranty Fund for purposes of guarantying loans, and thirty-percent (30%) of the funds made available from the Direct Loan Fund for purposes of making direct loans shall be reserved and made available only for projects located in rural areas (respectively, the "Loan Guaranty Rural Set Aside" and the "Direct Loan Rural Set Aside"). On or after June 30 of each year, commencing with the year 2001, the department shall assess the amount of qualified applications for eligible projects located in rural areas receiving funds from each of the Loan Guaranty Rural Set Aside and Direct Loan Rural Set Aside (individually, a "rural set aside"). If the amount of qualified applications from rural providers is insufficient to utilize all of the available funds in a rural set aside, the department may make the excess funds in that set aside available to other qualified applications for eligible projects located in either rural or urban areas.

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 25, § 8254

1. New section filed 4-16-99 as an emergency; operative 4-16-99 (Register 99, No. 16). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 10-13-99 pursuant to Education Code section 8277.6 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. New section refiled 10-1-99 as an emergency; operative 10-13-99 (Register 99, No. 40). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-10-2000 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
3. Repealed by operation of Government Code section 11346.1(g) (Register 2000, No. 9).
4. New section filed 2-2-2001; operative 2-2-2001 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(c) (Register 2001, No. 5).

Note: Authority cited: Section 8277.6(g), Education Code. Reference: Sections 8277.5(d)(1), (e)(1), 8277.6(c), (e), (f) and (g), Education Code.