RCW 43.31.512
Child care facility fund committee—Loans or grants to individuals, businesses, or organizations.
The child care facility fund committee shall award loan guarantees, loans or grants to those persons, businesses, or organizations meeting the minimum standards set forth in this chapter who will best serve the intent of the chapter to increase the availability of high quality, affordable child care in Washington state. The committee shall promulgate rules regarding the application for and disbursement of loan guarantees, loans, or grants from the fund, including loan terms and repayment procedures. At a minimum, such rules shall require an applicant to submit a plan which includes a detailed description of:
(1) The need for a new or improved child care facility in the area served by the applicant;
(2) The steps the applicant will take to serve a reasonable number of children with disabilities, sick children, infants, children requiring nighttime or weekend care, or children whose costs of care are subsidized by government;
(3) Why financial assistance from the state is needed to start or improve the child care facility;
(4) How the guaranteed loan, loan, or grant will be used, and how such uses will meet the described need;
(5) The child care services to be available at the facility and the capacity of the applicant to provide those services; and
(6) The financial status of the applicant, including other resources available to the applicant which will ensure the continued viability of the facility and the availability of its described services.
Recipients shall annually for two years following the receipt of the loan guarantee, loan, or grant, submit to the child care facility fund committee a report on the facility and how it is meeting the child care needs for which it was intended.
[ 2020 c 274 § 23; 1989 c 430 § 7.]
NOTES:
Legislative findings—Severability—1989 c 430: See notes following RCW 43.31.502.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - State Government—Executive
Chapter 43.31 - Department of Commerce.
43.31.0925 - Business assistance center—Minority and women business development office.
43.31.205 - Hanford reservation—Promotion of sublease for nuclear-related industry.
43.31.215 - Hanford reservation—Tri-Cities area—Emphasize workforce and facilities.
43.31.422 - Hanford area economic investment fund.
43.31.425 - Hanford area economic investment fund advisory committee.
43.31.428 - Hanford area economic investment fund committee—Powers.
43.31.450 - SEED act—Findings—Purpose.
43.31.455 - SEED act—Definitions.
43.31.460 - SEED act—Individual development account program—Rules.
43.31.465 - SEED act—Foster youth individual development account program.
43.31.470 - SEED act—Individual development account program account.
43.31.475 - SEED act—Additional funds and purposes.
43.31.480 - SEED act—Report to the legislature.
43.31.485 - SEED act—Short title—2005 c 402.
43.31.502 - Child care facility revolving fund—Purpose—Source of funds.
43.31.504 - Child care facility fund committee—Generally.
43.31.506 - Child care facility fund committee—Authority to award moneys from fund.
43.31.508 - Child care facility fund committee—Loans to child care facilities.
43.31.514 - Child care facility fund committee—Grants, repayment requirements.
43.31.545 - Recycled materials and products—Market development.
43.31.565 - Early learning facilities grant and loan program—Definitions.
43.31.575 - Early learning facilities grant and loan program—Eligible organizations—Requirements.
43.31.577 - Early learning facilities grant and loan program—Eligible activities.
43.31.583 - Early learning facilities grant and loan program—Report.
43.31.615 - Landlord mitigation program account.
43.31.625 - Industrial waste coordination program.
43.31.635 - Industrial symbiosis grant program.
43.31.859 - Rural development council—Successor organization—Funding.