Bill Text: PA HB1772 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishing the Pennsylvania Military Child-Care Assistance Program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 42-27)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-07-18 - Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS [HB1772 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1772-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2278
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1772 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY MARSICO, AUMENT, BAKER, BARBIN, BEAR, BENNINGHOFF, BOYD, BRENNAN, BROOKS, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, COHEN, DALEY, DAVIDSON, DAVIS, DENLINGER, DONATUCCI, EVERETT, FABRIZIO, FARRY, FLECK, GABLER, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GROVE, HARHART, HARKINS, HEFFLEY, HELM, HENNESSEY, HESS, HICKERNELL, M. K. KELLER, KILLION, KORTZ, KOTIK, KULA, LONGIETTI, MANN, MILLARD, MILLER, MIRABITO, MULLERY, MUNDY, MURT, O'NEILL, PICKETT, QUINN, RAPP, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROCK, SACCONE, SANTARSIERO, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, STABACK, STEVENSON, SWANGER, TAYLOR, THOMAS, TOEPEL, TOOHIL, VULAKOVICH, WAGNER AND YOUNGBLOOD, JULY 18, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, JULY 18, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, establishing the Pennsylvania Military
Child-Care Assistance Program.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 51 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 7320. Pennsylvania Military Child-Care Assistance Program.
(a) Establishment.--The Pennsylvania Military Child-Care
Assistance Program is established. The program shall pay for
child care to families that have one or more parents who are
federally deployed for wartime service.
(b) Administration.--
(1) The department shall contract with a nonprofit
entity to administer the program.
(2) The department shall promulgate regulations
necessary to administer the program.
(c) Eligibility.--
(1) An individual is eligible for the program if the
individual:
(i) is a resident of this Commonwealth;
(ii) is serving in the active military, reserves or
National Guard; and
(iii) is currently deployed in an active military
operation or national emergency.
(2) A resident who received child care prior to the
deployment shall be eligible only for the cost of additional
hours of care which resulted from the deployment.
(3) A resident is ineligible for the program if the
resident receives child-care services from the United States
military.
(d) Funding.--The program shall be funded by the Military
Family Relief Fund.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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