48.647(3)(3) Program requirements. A private agency that receives a grant under sub. (2) (a) shall do all of the following: 48.647(3)(a)(a) Operate a 2nd-chance home for the care and maintenance of eligible persons who are children, as defined in s. 48.619. 48.647(3)(b)(b) Maintain a community-wide network for referring eligible persons to the private agency’s program funded under the grant. 48.647(3)(c)(c) Ensure that an eligible person receiving services from the private agency’s program funded under the grant is enrolled in a secondary school or its vocational or technical equivalent or in a college or technical college or is working, unless the director of the private agency determines that there is good cause for the eligible person not to be so enrolled or working. 48.647(3)(d)(d) Ensure that an eligible person receiving services from the private agency’s program is provided with intake, assessment, case planning, and case management services; skills development training in the areas of economic self-sufficiency, parenting, successful adult living, and life choice decision making; prenatal and other health care services, including, if necessary, mental health and alcohol and other drug abuse services; child care; and transportation. 48.647(4)(4) Evaluation. From the appropriation under s. 20.437 (1) (f), the department shall conduct or shall select an evaluator to conduct an evaluation of the grant program under this section and, by June 1 of the 3rd calendar year beginning after the year in which the first grant under this section is awarded, shall submit a report on that evaluation to the governor and to the appropriate standing committees under s. 13.172 (3). The evaluation shall measure the economic self-sufficiency, parenting skills, successful adult living skills, and life choice decision-making skills of the eligible persons who received services under the program and any other criteria that the department determines to be appropriate for evaluation. 48.647 HistoryHistory: 2001 a. 69; 2003 a. 33; 2007 a. 20 ss. 1220 to 1229; Stats. 2007 s. 48.647; 2015 a. 128. CHILD CARE PROVIDERS
48.6548.65 Child care centers licensed; fees. 48.65(1)(1) No person may for compensation provide care and supervision for 4 or more children under the age of 7 for less than 24 hours a day unless that person obtains a license to operate a child care center from the department. To obtain a license under this subsection to operate a child care center, a person must meet the minimum requirements for a license established by the department under s. 48.67, meet the requirements specified in s. 48.686, and pay the license fee under sub. (3). A license issued under this subsection is valid until revoked or suspended, but shall be reviewed every 2 years as provided in s. 48.66 (5). 48.65(2)(2) This section does not include any of the following: 48.65(2)(a)(a) A parent, grandparent, greatgrandparent, stepparent, brother, sister, first cousin, nephew, niece, uncle, or aunt of a child, whether by blood, marriage, or legal adoption, who provides care and supervision for the child. 48.65(2)(am)(am) A guardian of a child who provides care and supervision for the child. 48.65(2)(b)(b) A public or parochial school or a tribal school. 48.65(2)(c)(c) A person employed to come to the home of the child’s parent or guardian for less than 24 hours a day. 48.65(2)(d)(d) A county, city, village, town, school district or library that provides programs primarily intended for recreational or social purposes. 48.65(3)(a)(a) Except as provided in par. (c), before the department may issue a license under sub. (1) to a child care center that provides care and supervision for 4 to 8 children, the child care center must pay to the department a biennial fee of $60.50. Except as provided in par. (c), before the department may issue a license under sub. (1) to a child care center that provides care and supervision for 9 or more children, the child care center must pay to the department a biennial fee of $30.25, plus a biennial fee of $16.94 per child, based on the number of children that the child care center is licensed to serve. A child care center that wishes to continue a license issued under sub. (1) shall pay the applicable fee under this paragraph by the continuation date of the license. A new child care center shall pay the applicable fee under this paragraph no later than 30 days before the opening of the child care center. 48.65(3)(b)(b) A child care center that wishes to continue a license issued under par. (a) and that fails to pay the applicable fee under par. (a) by the continuation date of the license or a new child care center that fails to pay the applicable fee under par. (a) by 30 days before the opening of the child care center shall pay an additional fee of $5 per day for every day after the deadline that the child care center fails to pay the fee. 48.65(3)(c)(c) An individual who is eligible for a fee waiver under the veterans fee waiver program under s. 45.44 is not required to pay a fee under par. (a) for a license under sub. (1). 48.65 Cross-referenceCross-reference: See also chs. DCF 250, 251, and 252, Wis. adm. code. 48.65 AnnotationThe distinction created by sub. (2) (b) between private parochial schools and other private schools is unconstitutional. Milwaukee Montessori School v. Percy, 473 F. Supp. 1358 (1979). 48.65148.651 Certification of child care providers. 48.651(1)(1) Except as provided in s. 49.155 (4) (c), no person, other than a child care center licensed under s. 48.65 or established or contracted for under s. 120.13 (14), may receive payment for providing child care services for an individual who is determined eligible for a child care subsidy under s. 49.155 unless the person is certified, according to the standards adopted by the department under sub. (1d), by the department in a county having a population of 750,000 or more, a county department, or an agency with which the department contracts under sub. (2). To be certified under this section, a person must meet the minimum requirements for certification established by the department under sub. (1d), meet the requirements specified in s. 48.686, and pay the fee specified in sub. (2). The department in a county having a population of 750,000 or more, a county department, or an agency contracted with under sub. (2) shall certify the following categories of child care providers: 48.651(1)(a)(a) Level I certified family child care providers, as established by the department under sub. (1d). 48.651(1)(b)(b) Level II certified family child care providers, as established by the department under sub. (1d).