§ 8334. — 8334. (Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 73, Sec. 16.)

California § 8334.

• Jurisdiction: California
• Code EDC: Education Code - EDC
• Div.: 1.
• Title 1.: DIVISION 1. GENERAL EDUCATION CODE PROVISIONS
• Part 6.: PART 6. EDUCATION PROGRAMS—STATE MASTER PLANS
• Ch. 2.: CHAPTER 2. Early Education Act
• Art. 14.: ARTICLE 14. Contract Procedures

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(a)
(1)
The State Department of Education shall develop and implement a streamlined request for application process for existing California state preschool program contractors to be awarded new California state preschool program slots.
(2)
The State Department of Education shall collaborate with the State Department of Social Services to ensure the streamlined request for application process pursuant to paragraph (1) is, where applicable, similar to the streamlined request for application process in the general childcare and development program.
(b)
A contractor who meets any of the following conditions during a request for application cycle shall be
ineligible for the streamlined request for application process:
(1)
The contractor is on conditional status because of fiscal or programmatic noncompliance.
(2)
The State Department of Education has conducted a review pursuant to Section 17794 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations and the contractor has failed to resolve items of fiscal and programmatic noncompliance identified in the review within 12 months of the issuance of the review report.
(3)
The State Department of Education has evidence that the contractor has not been able to successfully fulfill current contract requirements by serving children in a quality program and fiscally responsible manner.
(4)
As described in Section 8316, the contractor has in place or places, a person in
a position of fiscal responsibility or control who has been convicted of a crime involving misuse or misappropriation of state or federal funds or a state or federal crime involving moral turpitude.
(5)
The State Department of Education reduced the contractor’s current year maximum reimbursement amount due to the contractor’s inability to utilize its full contract amount because of low enrollment or low expenditures for the same contract type.
(6)
The contractor was previously awarded state preschool program expansion funding and has not yet started to provide services with that funding.
(7)
The contractor has an outstanding accounts receivable balance with the State Department of Education.
(8)
The contractor has a delinquent audit pursuant to Section
17825 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations.

Legislative History

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 73, Sec. 16. (SB 163) Effective July 2, 2024.