Taking action to save jobs for tens of thousands of working parents and small business child care providers, Assemblyman John Pérez yesterday introduced a bill to restore child care funding for working parents that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently vetoed. The action comes, said the Speaker's press release, after the Speaker worked to provide bridge funding for the program by committing $6 million generated from cuts in the Assembly's operating budget and working with California's state and local First 5 Commissions to arrange for more than $40 million in bridge funding for the child care services.
"We partnered with First Five Commissions all throughout the state to keep these parents and childcare providers working. That was the first step," Pérez said. "Today, I am taking the second step by introducing a bill that will fully restore this program and keep the parents and child care providers working. We will not stand idly by while others force parents back onto the welfare rolls and drive providers to the unemployment line. Failing to act will cost taxpayers far more than the cost of providing childcare."
AB 1 (Perez) would be funded by the transfer of $115,534,000 from various unobligated balances. AB 1 (Perez) language below:
http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_1_bill_20101206_introduced.pdf
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