A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT providing for the consolidation of all regulatory functions regarding the monitoring of private early care and education providers for compliance with the more at four program as recommended by the task force on the consolidation of early childhood education and care.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  To consolidate all of the regulatory functions regarding the monitoring of early care and education providers in certain private settings, it is the intent of the General Assembly that the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Public Instruction approve Division of Child Development staff to assume the regulatory functions of the More at Four program in private classroom settings. The Department of Public Instruction shall provide Division of Child Development staff with the training necessary to monitor compliance with the More at Four program. The Division of Child Development shall continue its current licensing functions for those classrooms voluntarily licensed in public settings.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2010.