2019 District of Columbia Code
Title 4 - Public Care Systems.
Chapter 4 - Day Care.
§ 4–410.02. Payments to child development facilities for infants and toddlers.

(a) OSSE shall establish payment rates for child development facilities providing care for infants and toddlers. The rate of payment shall be sufficient to provide a child development center and child development home with funding to operate based on a cost modeling analysis that incorporates costs incurred as a result of implementing the salary scale and schedule developed by OSSE pursuant to § 4-410.01(b). Subject to appropriations, the cost of care and teacher salary scale shall be increased as follows:

(1) By October 1, 2019, $4,298,064 of the projected fiscal impact of the full cost of care and teacher salary scale;

(2) By October 1, 2020, at least 25% of the projected fiscal impact of the full cost of care and teacher salary scale;

(3) By October 1, 2021, at least 50% of the projected fiscal impact of the full cost of care and teacher salary scale;

(4) By October 1, 2022, at least 75% of the projected fiscal impact of the full cost of care and teacher salary scale;

(5) By October 1, 2023, and on an annual basis thereafter, OSSE shall reimburse providers at the cost of care as determined by its most recent cost modeling analysis; and

(6) By October 1, 2024, and on a triennial basis thereafter, OSSE shall revise the payment rates based on the updated cost of care and teacher salary scale developed pursuant to § 4-410.01(b).

(b) Not Funded.

(Sept. 19, 1979, D.C. Law 3-16, § 11b; as added Oct. 30, 2018, D.C. Law 22-179, § 201(d), 65 DCR 9569; Sept. 11, 2019, D.C. Law 23-16, § 5143, 66 DCR 8621.)

Applicability of D.C. Law 22-179: § 301 of D.C. Law 22-179 provided that the creation of this section by § 201(d) of D.C. Law 22-179 is subject to the inclusion of the law’s fiscal effect in an approved budget and financial plan. Therefore that amendment has not been implemented.