Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with senate amendments and pass a bill that authorizes collective bargaining for childcare workers.

Highlights:

• Authorizes family childcare providers to form, join, and participate in the activities of provider organizations (Sec. 10).

• Requires the governor, through the Department of Human Resources or the governor’s designee, to meet and confer in good faith concerning all matters within the scope of representation with representatives of a certified provider organization (Sec. 16).

• Authorizes the appointment of a mediator mutually agreeable to the above-mentioned parties if these parties fail to reach an agreement (Sec. 19).

• Requires the state, or a department, contractor, subcontractor, or political subdivision of the state that holds online or group in-person pre-service meetings or orientations for family childcare providers, to provide a certified provider organization mandatory access to the entirety of these preservice meetings or orientations, and the ability to make a presentation about the certified provider organization (Sec. 25).

• Authorizes the names, home and mailing addresses, county, home, if known, work, and cellular telephone numbers, and email addresses of family childcare providers to be made available to certified provider organizations, only for the purposes of organizing, representing, and assisting family childcare providers (Sec. 28).

• Authorizes a family childcare provider to opt-out of the disclosure of their home and mailing address, home, work, and cellular telephone numbers, and email address from the above-mentioned list (Sec. 28).

• Defines “family childcare provider” or “provider” as a childcare provider who participates in a state-funded early care and education program and is either (Sec. 7):

• A licensed individual who operates a family daycare home; or

• An individual who provides early care and education in their own home or in the home of the child receiving care and is exempt from specific licensing requirements.

• Defines “mediation” as an effort by an impartial third party to assist in reconciling a dispute regarding matters within the scope of representation between representatives of the governor and the certified provider organization through interpretation, suggestion, and advice (Sec. 7).

• Defines “provider organization” as an organization with all of the following characteristics (Sec. 7):

• Includes family childcare providers as members;

• Has as one of its main purposes the representation of family childcare providers in their relations with public or private entities in California concerning the terms of their participation in state-funded early care and education programs;

• Is not an entity that contracts with the state or a county to administer or process payments for a state-funded early care and education program; and

• Its organizational bylaws or other internal governing documents give family childcare providers the right to be members of the organization and to participate in the democratic control of the organization.

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass an amended bill that authorizes collective bargaining for childcare workers.

Highlights:

• Authorizes family childcare providers to form, join, and participate in the activities of provider organizations (Sec. 10).

• Requires the governor, through the Department of Human Resources or the governor’s designee, to meet and confer in good faith concerning all matters within the scope of representation with representatives of a certified provider organization (Sec. 16).

• Authorizes the appointment of a mediator mutually agreeable to the above-mentioned parties if these parties fail to reach an agreement (Sec. 19).

• Requires the state, or a department, contractor, subcontractor, or political subdivision of the state that holds online or group in-person pre-service meetings or orientations for family childcare providers, to provide a certified provider organization mandatory access to the entirety of these preservice meetings or orientations, and the ability to make a presentation about the certified provider organization (Sec. 25).

• Authorizes the names, home and mailing addresses, county, home, if known, work, and cellular telephone numbers, and email addresses of family childcare providers to be made available to certified provider organizations, only for the purposes of organizing, representing, and assisting family childcare providers (Sec. 28).

• Authorizes a family childcare provider to opt-out of the disclosure of their home and mailing address, home, work, and cellular telephone numbers, and email address from the above-mentioned list (Sec. 28).

• Defines “family childcare provider” or “provider” as a childcare provider who participates in a state-funded early care and education program and is either (Sec. 7):

• A licensed individual who operates a family daycare home; or

• An individual who provides early care and education in their own home or in the home of the child receiving care and is exempt from specific licensing requirements.

• Defines “mediation” as an effort by an impartial third party to assist in reconciling a dispute regarding matters within the scope of representation between representatives of the governor and the certified provider organization through interpretation, suggestion, and advice (Sec. 7).

• Defines “provider organization” as an organization with all of the following characteristics (Sec. 7):

• Includes family childcare providers as members;

• Has as one of its main purposes the representation of family childcare providers in their relations with public or private entities in California concerning the terms of their participation in state-funded early care and education programs;

• Is not an entity that contracts with the state or a county to administer or process payments for a state-funded early care and education program; and

• Its organizational bylaws or other internal governing documents give family childcare providers the right to be members of the organization and to participate in the democratic control of the organization.

Full Bill Text