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§40-6.6-4  Right of CCAP family child care providers to choose provider representative; subjects of negotiation. –


Published: 2015

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TITLE 40

Human services

CHAPTER 40-6.6

Quality Family Child Care Act

SECTION 40-6.6-4



   § 40-6.6-4  Right of CCAP family child care

providers to choose provider representative; subjects of negotiation. –

(a) CCAP family child care providers may, in accordance with the procedures set

forth in § 40-6.6-9, choose a provider organization to be their provider

representative and to negotiate with the director, or his or her designee, over

the terms and conditions of CCAP family child care providers' participation in

CCAP, including, but not limited to: (1) Expanding training and professional

development opportunities; (2) Improving the recruitment and retention of

qualified CCAP family child care providers; (3) Reimbursement rates and other

economic matters; (4) Benefits; (5) Payment procedures; and (6) A grievance

resolution process.



   (b) Notwithstanding the above, all matters within the scope

of the department of children, youth and families (DCYF) child care licensing

regulations and the DCYF's regulatory authority over child care licensing shall

be excluded from and not subject to negotiations and/or the collective

bargaining process as recognized in this section. DCYF's authority to initiate

licensing action pertaining to family child care providers shall be exclusively

governed by provisions in § 42-72.1-6 and chapter 42-35.



   (c) Notwithstanding the above, CCAP family child care

providers must first be qualified as CCAP family child care providers by the

department of human services and must operate in conformance with the relevant

sections of 42-12 of the general laws and regulations promulgated by the

department.



   (d) The director shall work in consultation with the

secretary of the executive office of health and human services as well as the

director of the department of human services regarding the terms and conditions

of CCAP family child care providers' participation in CCAP including, but not

limited to, the terms and conditions in subsection (a) above.



History of Section.

(P.L. 2013, ch. 456, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 465, § 1.)