HAR §17-798.3-2. academic year for eligible children kindergarten age and above who are enrolled in public or private elementary, middle, or secondary schools

"Exempt provider" means a person or facility providing legally-exempt child care, in accordance with section 346-152, HRS. It also includes all adult household members when child care is provided in a private residence that is not the child's residence, all staff employed at a child care facility, any volunteers or substitutes who provide care for children for ten hours or more per week, and any other individuals who have unsupervised access to children in care. "Experiencing homelessness" means the following: (1) Lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; (2) Are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason, are living in motels, hotels, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations, are in emergency or transitional shelters, are abandoned in hospitals; (3) Have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings; (4) Are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train station, or similar settings; or (5) Are migratory children (as such term is defined in section 1309 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965). "Extended filing period" means the additional ten days that households are allowed to submit required information or missing verification to justify continued child care eligibility. See section 17-798.3-18(a)(1)(C). "Family child care home" means any private residence at which care is provided at any given time to six or fewer children, as defined in section 346-151, HRS. 798.3-8 3414 §17-798.3-2 "Family unit" means the caretakers and their minor children who reside together in the same household and whose needs and income are considered in determining eligibility for, and the amount of, child care payment. "Federal fiscal year" means a period beginning October 1 and ending September 30. "Federal Poverty Guidelines" or "FPG" means the poverty guidelines for Hawaii that are established in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the authority of 42 U.S.C. §9902(2) and cited in the Child Care and Development Fund Plan for State of Hawaii that is approved by the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, pursuant to C.F.R. §§98.14 to 98.18. "First-to-Work" or "FTW" means the work programs administered by the department for recipients of TANF. "Full-time care" means child care provided for eighty-seven hours and more per month, except for before-school and after-school care. "Gross income" means all non-excluded earned and unearned income as specified in this chapter. "Group child care center" means a facility, other than a private home, at which care is provided, as defined in section 346-151, HRS. The term may include nurseries; preschools; parent cooperatives; drop-in child care centers; before-school and after-school programs; holiday, intersession and summer care for eligible school age children; or other similar care settings that are established to provide group care to a child for any part of a twenty-four hour day and is license-exempt or licensed by the department. For the purposes of this chapter, group child care center shall also include "infant and toddler center" in which child care is provided to children ages six weeks to thirty-six months of age in a group child care center care or group child care home and is licensed under chapter 17-895. "Group child care home" means a facility which may be an extended or modified private home, at which 798.3-9 3414