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SF 1168 Senate Long Description

Requiring the commissioner of children, families and learning to award grants to establish pilot projects for neighborhood based community organizations to provide early childhood care and education opportunities for children from birth to age five in certain low income neighborhoods, specifying certain contiguous geographic area requirements of neighborhoods receiving the grants; specifying the goal of the pilot projects and application requirements, requiring parental involvement in the application process; specifying certain commissioner consideration requirements in awarding the grants; requiring selected organizations to implement the pilot projects through certain service organizations and to take advantage of state and federal funds available for child care, home energy and housing assistance, health insurance, head start and job training; prohibiting participation in the projects after voluntary discontinuation of current private health or dental insurance; authorizing the incorporation of certain family child care providers into the projects; requiring the commissioner to review evaluations of the pilot projects after a certain number of years and provide testimony to the legislature (mk)