Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 43 State Government -- Executive - Chapter 43.215 Department Of Early Learning

• 43.215.005 Finding -- Purpose
  (1) The legislature recognizes that: (a) Parents are their children's first and most important teachers and decision makers; (b) Research across disciplines now demonstrates that ...
• 43.215.010 Definitions
  The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Agency" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, or ...
• 43.215.020 Department created -- Primary duties
  (1) The department of early learning is created as an executive branch agency. The department is vested with all powers and duties transferred to it ...
• 43.215.030 Director -- Appointment -- Salary
  (1) The executive head and appointing authority of the department is the director. The director shall be appointed by the governor with the consent of ...
• 43.215.040 Director -- Power and duties
  It is the intent of the legislature wherever possible to place the internal affairs of the department under the control of the director in order ...
• 43.215.050 Advisory committees or councils -- Travel expenses
  The director may appoint such advisory committees or councils as may be required by any federal legislation as a condition to the receipt of federal ...
• 43.215.060 Federal and state cooperation -- Rules -- Construction
  In furtherance of the policy of the state to cooperate with the federal government in all of the programs under the jurisdiction of the department, ...
• 43.215.065 Policies to support children of incarcerated parents
  (1)(a) The director of the department of early learning shall review current department policies and assess the adequacy and availability of programs targeted at persons ...
• 43.215.070 Private-public partnership
  (1) In addition to other duties under this chapter, the director shall actively participate in a nongovernmental private-public partnership focused on supporting government's investments in ...
• 43.215.080 Reports to the governor and legislature
  Two years after the implementation of the department's early learning program, and every two years thereafter by July 1st, the department shall submit to the ...
• 43.215.090 Early learning advisory council -- Statewide early learning plan
  (1) The early learning advisory council is established to advise the department on statewide early learning community needs and progress. (2) The council shall work ...
• 43.215.100 Voluntary quality rating and improvement system -- Report to the legislature
  Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the department, in collaboration with community and statewide partners, shall implement a voluntary quality ...
• 43.215.110 Partnership responsibilities -- Department's duties -- Partnership's duties
  (1) In order to meet its partnership responsibilities, the department shall: (a) Work collaboratively with the nongovernmental private-public partnership; and (b) Actively seek public and ...
• 43.215.120 Parental notification of report alleging sexual misconduct or abuse -- Notice of parental rights
  The department and an agency must, at the first opportunity but in all cases within forty-eight hours of receiving a report alleging sexual misconduct or ...
• 43.215.125 Washington head start program proposal -- Report
  (1) Within existing funds, the department shall develop a proposal for implementing a statewide Washington head start program. To the extent possible while maintaining quality ...
• 43.215.200 Director's licensing duties
  It shall be the director's duty with regard to licensing: (1) In consultation and with the advice and assistance of persons representative of the various ...
• 43.215.205 Minimum requirements for licensure
  Applications for licensure shall require, at a minimum, the following information: (1) The size and suitability of a facility and the plan of operation for ...
• 43.215.210 Fire protection -- Powers and duties of chief of the Washington state patrol
  The chief of the Washington state patrol, through the director of fire protection, shall have the power and it shall be his or her duty: ...
• 43.215.215 Character, suitability, and competence to provide child care and early learning services -- Fingerprint criminal history record checks
  (1) In determining whether an individual is of appropriate character, suitability, and competence to provide child care and early learning services to children, the department ...
• 43.215.220 Licensed day care centers -- Notice of pesticide use
  Licensed child day care centers shall provide notice of pesticide use to parents or guardians of students and employees pursuant to chapter 17.21 RCW.[2006 c ...
• 43.215.230 Articles of incorporation
  A copy of the articles of incorporation of any agency or amendments to the articles of existing corporation agencies shall be sent by the secretary ...
• 43.215.240 Access to agencies -- Records inspection
  All agencies subject to this chapter shall accord the department, the chief of the Washington state patrol, and the director of fire protection, or their ...
• 43.215.250 License required
  (1) It is unlawful for any agency to care for children unless the agency is licensed as provided in this chapter. (2) A license issued ...
• 43.215.255 License fees
  (1) The director shall charge fees to the licensee for obtaining a license. The director may waive the fees when, in the discretion of the ...
• 43.215.260 License application -- Issuance, renewal, duration
  Each agency shall make application for a license or renewal of license to the department on forms prescribed by the department. Upon receipt of such ...
• 43.215.270 License renewal
  If a licensee desires to apply for a renewal of its license, a request for a renewal shall be filed ninety days before the expiration ...
• 43.215.280 Initial licenses
  The director may, at his or her discretion, issue an initial license instead of a full license, to an agency or facility for a period ...
• 43.215.290 Probationary licenses
  (1) The department may issue a probationary license to a licensee who has had a license but is temporarily unable to comply with a rule ...
• 43.215.300 Licenses -- Denial, suspension, revocation, modification, nonrenewal -- Proceedings -- Penalties
  (1) An agency may be denied a license, or any license issued pursuant to this chapter may be suspended, revoked, modified, or not renewed by ...
• 43.215.305 Licenses -- Denial, revocation, suspension, or modification -- Notice -- Effective date of action -- Adjudicative proceeding
  (1) The department shall give written notice of the denial of an application for a license to the applicant or his or her agent. The ...
• 43.215.307 Civil fines -- Notice -- Adjudicative proceeding
  (1) The department shall give written notice to the person against whom it assesses a civil fine. The notice shall state the reasons for the ...
• 43.215.310 Adjudicative proceedings -- Training for administrative law judges
  (1) The office of administrative hearings shall not assign nor allow an administrative law judge to preside over an adjudicative hearing regarding denial, modification, suspension, ...
• 43.215.320 License or certificate suspension -- Noncompliance with support order -- Reissuance
  The director shall immediately suspend the license or certificate of a person who has been certified pursuant to RCW 74.20A.320 by the department of social ...
• 43.215.330 Actions against agencies
  Notwithstanding the existence or pursuit of any other remedy, the director may, in the manner provided by law, upon the advice of the attorney general, ...
• 43.215.340 Operating without a license -- Penalty
  Any agency operating without a license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. This section shall not be enforceable against an agency until sixty days after ...
• 43.215.350 Negotiated rule making
  The director shall have the power and it shall be the director's duty to engage in negotiated rule making pursuant to RCW 34.05.310(2)(a) with the ...
• 43.215.355 Negotiated rule making -- Statewide unit of family child care licensees -- Antitrust immunity, intent
  (1) Solely for the purposes of negotiated rule making pursuant to RCW 34.05.310(2)(a) and 43.215.350, a statewide unit of all family child care licensees is ...
• 43.215.360 Minimum licensing requirements -- Window blind pull cords
  (1) Minimum licensing requirements under this chapter shall include a prohibition on the use of window blinds or other window coverings with pull cords or ...
• 43.215.370 Reporting actions against agency licensees -- Posting on web site
  For the purposes of reporting actions taken against agency licensees, upon the development of an early learning information system, the following actions shall be posted ...
• 43.215.400 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Intent
  It is the intent of the legislature to establish an early childhood state education and assistance program. This special assistance program is a voluntary enrichment ...
• 43.215.405 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Definitions
  Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 43.215.400 through 43.215.450 and 43.215.900 through 43.215.903. (1) "Advisory committee" means ...
• 43.215.410 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Admission and funding
  The department shall administer a state-supported early childhood education and assistance program to assist eligible children with educational, social, health, nutritional, and cultural development to ...
• 43.215.415 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Eligible providers -- State-funded support -- Requirements
  Approved early childhood programs shall receive state-funded support through the department. Public or private nonsectarian organizations, including, but not limited to school districts, educational service ...
• 43.215.420 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Advisory committee
  The department shall establish an advisory committee composed of interested parents and representatives from the office of the superintendent of public instruction, the division of ...
• 43.215.425 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Rules
  The department shall adopt rules under chapter 34.05 RCW for the administration of the early childhood program. Approved early childhood programs shall conduct needs assessments ...
• 43.215.430 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Review of applications -- Award of funds
  The department shall review applications from public or private nonsectarian organizations for state funding of early childhood education and assistance programs and award funds as ...
• 43.215.435 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Reports
  The department shall annually report to the governor and the legislature on the findings of the longitudinal study undertaken to examine and monitor the effectiveness ...
• 43.215.440 Early childhood education and assistance program -- State support -- Priorities -- Program funding levels
  For the purposes of *RCW 28A.215.100 through 28A.215.200 and28A.215.900 through 28A.215.908, the department may award state support under *RCW 28A.215.100 through 28A.215.160 to increase the ...
• 43.215.445 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Reimbursement of advisory committee expenses
  The department from funds appropriated for the administration of the program under chapter 418, Laws of 1985 shall reimburse the expenses of the advisory committee.[1985 ...
• 43.215.450 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Authority to solicit gifts, grants, and support
  The department may solicit gifts, grants, conveyances, bequests and devises for the use or benefit of the early childhood state education and assistance program established ...
• 43.215.500 Child care workers -- Findings -- Intent
  The legislature finds that as of 2000, child care workers in the state earned an average hourly wage of eight dollars and twenty-two cents, only ...
• 43.215.502 Child care provider rules review
  In conjunction with child care providers and other early learning leaders, the department shall review and revise child care provider rules in order to emphasize ...
• 43.215.505 Child care workers -- Career and wage ladder
  (1) Subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this specific purpose, the department shall establish a child care career and wage ladder in licensed ...
• 43.215.510 Child care workers--Career and wage ladder -- Wage increases
  Child care centers adopting the child care career and wage ladder established pursuant to RCW 43.215.505 shall increase wages for child care workers who have ...
• 43.215.520 Child day-care centers, family day care providers -- Toll-free information number
  (1) The department shall establish and maintain a toll-free telephone number, and an interactive web-based system through which persons may obtain information regarding child day ...
• 43.215.525 Child day care centers, family day care providers -- Required postings -- Disclosure of complaints
  (1) Every child day care center and family day care provider shall prominently post the following items, clearly visible to parents and staff: (a) The ...
• 43.215.530 Child day care centers, family day care providers -- Public access to reports and enforcement action notices
  (1) Every child day care center and family day care provider shall have readily available for review by the department, parents, and the public a ...
• 43.215.535 Day care insurance
  (1) Every licensed child day care center shall, at the time of licensure or renewal and at any inspection, provide to the department proof that ...
• 43.215.540 Child care providers -- Tiered-reimbursement system -- Pilot sites
  (1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the department shall implement the tiered-reimbursement system developed pursuant to section 6, chapter ...
• 43.215.545 Child care services
  The department of early learning shall: (1) Work in conjunction with the statewide child care resource and referral network as well as local governments, nonprofit ...
• 43.215.900 Early childhood education and assistance program -- Short title -- 1985 c 418
  This act shall be known as the early childhood assistance act of 1985.[1985 c 418 § 13. Formerly RCW 28A.215.900, 28A.34A.904.] ...
• 43.215.901 Contingency -- Effective date -- 1985 c 418
  If specific funding for the purposes of this act, referencing this act by bill number, is not provided by the legislature by July 1, 1987, ...
• 43.215.902 Severability -- 1985 c 418
  If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application ...
• 43.215.903 Severability -- 1988 c 174
  If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application ...
• 43.215.904 Part headings not law -- 2006 c 265
  Part headings used in this act are not any part of the law.[2006 c 265 § 602.] ...
• 43.215.905 Effective date -- 2006 c 265
  This act takes effect July 1, 2006.[2006 c 265 § 604.] ...
• 43.215.906 Severability -- 2006 c 265
  If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application ...
• 43.215.907 Evaluation of department by joint legislative audit and review committee
  By July 1, 2010, the joint legislative audit and review committee shall conduct an evaluation of the implementation and operation of the department of early ...

Last modified: April 7, 2009