PRINTER'S NO. 743
No. 670 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY STABACK, DeWEESE, THOMAS, BELARDI, BELFANTI, BUNT,
BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, CAPPABIANCA, L. I. COHEN, CORRIGAN, COY,
CRUZ, CURRY, DeLUCA, EACHUS, FAIRCHILD, FRANKEL, FREEMAN,
GEORGE, GRUCELA, GRUITZA, HALUSKA, HARHAI, HENNESSEY, HERMAN,
JOSEPHS, KAISER, LAUGHLIN, MANDERINO, MANN, McCALL, MELIO,
MICHLOVIC, R. MILLER, MUNDY, OLIVER, PETRARCA, PIPPY,
PRESTON, ROONEY, RUBLEY, SAINATO, SAMUELSON, SANTONI, SATHER,
SCHULER, SHANER, B. SMITH, SOLOBAY, STURLA, SURRA, TIGUE,
TRELLO, TRICH, WALKO, WANSACZ, WASHINGTON, C. WILLIAMS,
WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD, YUDICHAK, ZIMMERMAN, STEELMAN AND
MYERS, FEBRUARY 13, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH, FEBRUARY 13, 2001
AN ACT
1 Providing for technical assistance for employer-sponsored child
2 day-care programs.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Technical assistance for employer-sponsored child
6 day-care programs.
7 (a) General rule.--The Department of Public Welfare shall
8 develop a technical assistance program to provide private
9 employers with information, including various types of employer-
10 sponsored child day-care benefits and demographic and economic
11 trends relating to the work force; research on the value of
12 child day-care assistance programs in relationship to the
13 recruitment, retention and productivity of employees; and
1 government-assisted child day-care programs. Employer-sponsored
2 child day-care benefits include: resource and referral services;
3 child day care on or near the work site; financial assistance
4 through dependent care accounts; cafeteria-style fringe
5 benefits; discounts at child day-care programs; and family-
6 sensitive personnel practices such as job sharing, flextime and
7 child-related employee leave.
8 (b) Workshops.--The department shall offer educational and
9 training workshops for businesses to distribute information and
10 help businesses address the child day-care needs of their
11 employees.
12 (c) Coordination with other agencies and programs.--To the
13 fullest extent possible, the department shall coordinate this
14 technical assistance with Federal and State agencies or programs
15 which have an impact on child day-care policies in the
16 workplace, which administer subsidized child day-care services
17 and programs and which provide child day-care resource and
18 referral services.
19 Section 2. Effective date.
20 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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