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Account	Description	FY07 GAA	FY08 GAA
3000-4060	Low-Income Child Care For income-eligible early education and care programs; provided, that income eligible programs shall not include the employment services child care program, transitional child care programs, or post-transitional child care programs; provided further, that the department of early education and care may not fund programs from this item unless explicitly authorized; provided further, that not less than 500 early education and care slots shall be reserved for children in the foster care program at the department of social services; provided further, that informal early education and care benefits for families meeting income-eligibility criteria shall be funded from this item; provided further, that not more than $2 per child per hour shall be paid for the services; provided further, that early education and care slots funded from this item shall be distributed geographically in a manner that provides fair and adequate access to early education and care for all eligible individuals; provided further, that all early education and care providers that are part of a public school system shall be required to accept early education and care vouchers from recipients funded through this appropriation; provided further, that $ 47,761,095 shall be expended to provide pre-school direct services to eligible children through the local councils funded in item 3000-2000 in chapter 139 of the acts of 2006; provided further, that said funds shall be provided only to councils which provided direct services to children through item 3000-4000 in fiscal year 2007; provided further, that programs receiving funding through said councils in fiscal year 2008 shall meet the quality standards required by programs funded through item 3000-4000 in fiscal year 2007; provided further, that said councils shall receive grants sufficient to ensure that any child receiving services through the councils on July 1, 2007 shall continue to receive services on the same terms and conditions as during fiscal year 2007; provided further, that the councils shall enroll any new children receiving services in fiscal year 2008 from the centralized waitlist maintained by the department under terms and conditions to be determined by the department, including but not limited to a maximum rate capped at the seventy fifth percentile of the regional market rate; provided further, that children receiving services through this allocation shall retain priority status for future services available through the department upon attaining the age of 5; provided further, that the commissioner of the department of early education and care may transfer funds to this item from items 3000-1000 and 3000-4050, as necessary, pursuant to an allocation plan, which shall detail by object class the distribution of the funds to be transferred and which the commissioner shall file with the house and senate committees on ways and means at least 30 days before the transfer; provided further, that not more than 3 percent of any item may be transferred in fiscal year 2008; provided further, that said plan shall be forwarded to the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on education, the chairs of the house and senate ways and means committees, and the secretary of administration and finance; provided further, that the department shall maintain not less than the same number of vouchers funded in fiscal year 2007; and provided further, that any payment made under any such grant with a school district shall be deposited with the treasurer of such city, town, or regional school district and held as a separate account and shall be expended by the school committee of such city, town, or regional school district without municipal appropriation, notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary	150,714,917	209,825,847

 
 

HISTORICAL SPENDING CATEGORIES ($000)

SPENDING CATEGORY	FY04 Spending	FY05 Spending	FY06 Spending	FY07 Spending	FY08 GAA
Public Assistance	0	0	0	152,215	209,826
TOTAL	0	0	0	152,215	209,826

* FY07 Projected Spending includes the budget plus nearly $1 billion in spending from FY06 supplemental budgets.

 

 

Earmarks

EARMARK DESCRIPTION	FY08
Preschool Direct Services from 3000-2000	47,761,095