49.155 Wisconsin Shares; child care subsidy.

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(1)Definitions. In this section, except as otherwise provided:

(ag)“Child care provider” means a provider licensed under s. 48.65 , certified under s. 48.651 or established or contracted for under s. 120.13

(14).

(ah)“County department or agency” means a county department under s. 46.215 , 46.22 , or 46.23 , the unit, as defined in s. 49.825

(e), or a Wisconsin Works agency, child care resource and referral agency, or other agency.

(aL)“Disabled” means physically or mentally incapable of caring for oneself.

(bm)“Liquid assets” means an individual’s financial resources that are cash or can be quickly converted to cash without incurring penalties, including cash on hand, as well as funds in checking, savings, money market, and credit union share accounts. “Liquid assets” does not include any financial resources designated by the department by rule as excluded for purposes of sub.

(cm).

(c)Notwithstanding s. 49.141

(j), “parent” means a custodial parent, guardian, foster parent, legal custodian, or a person acting in the place of a parent.

(cm)“Temporary break” means an individual’s time-limited absence from an authorized activity due to illness, leave to care for an individual’s family member, a student or holiday break, an interruption in work for a seasonal worker who is not working between regular industry work seasons, or any other cessation of an authorized activity as long as the individual continues to be employed or enrolled in the authorized activity and the absence does not exceed 3 months.

(d)“Tribal governing body” means an elected governing body of a federally recognized American Indian tribe.

(1d)Child care quality of care standards. The department shall promulgate rules to establish quality of care standards for child care providers that are higher than the quality of care standards required for licensure under s. 48.65 or for certification under s. 48.651 . The standards established by rules promulgated under this paragraph shall consist of the standards provided for the accreditation of child care centers by the National Association for the Education of Young Children or any other comparable standards that the department may establish, including standards regarding the turnover of child care provider staff and the training and benefits provided for child care provider staff.