PRINTER'S NO. 2248
No. 1831 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY STABACK, SCHULER, PISTELLA, DeWEESE, BELARDI,
WOJNAROSKI, HERMAN, LAUGHLIN, HORSEY, COY, FRANKEL, GRUCELA,
CORRIGAN, CALTAGIRONE, FREEMAN, HARHAI, JOSEPHS, WALKO,
BROWNE, SEYFERT, MANDERINO, ROONEY, SERAFINI, JAMES, MUNDY,
TIGUE, TRELLO, WILLIAMS, SAINATO, HENNESSEY, SURRA, PETRARCA,
L. I. COHEN, YUDICHAK, MELIO, BUNT, MARKOSEK, LaGROTTA,
BELFANTI, CAWLEY, SHANER, YOUNGBLOOD, J. TAYLOR, M. COHEN AND
TULLI, SEPTEMBER 20, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON AGING AND YOUTH, SEPTEMBER 20, 1999
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
14 government-assisted child day-care programs. Employer-sponsored
15 child day-care benefits include: resource and referral services;
1 child day care on or near the work site; financial assistance
2 through dependent care accounts; cafeteria-style fringe
3 benefits; discounts at child day-care programs; and family-
4 sensitive personnel practices such as job sharing, flextime and
5 child-related employee leave.
6 (b) Workshops.--The department shall offer educational and
7 training workshops for businesses to distribute information and
8 help businesses address the child day-care needs of their
9 employees.
10 (c) Coordination with other agencies and programs.--To the
11 fullest extent possible, the department shall coordinate this
12 technical assistance with Federal and State agencies or programs
13 which have an impact on child day-care policies in the
14 workplace, which administer subsidized child day-care services
15 and programs which provide child day-care resource and referral
16 services.
17 Section 2. Effective date.
18 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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