(a) The director shall authorize the University of California to conduct a pilot project pursuant to this section for a period not to extend 24 months beyond the date that funding is available for expenditure for the pilot project. The purpose of the pilot project is to test the feasibility of permitting family day care home providers and child day care center staff to undertake gastric tube feeding or the administration of medication through nebulizers under the conditions and with the precautions specified in subdivision (c). (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon authorization from the director pursuant to subdivision (a), child day care center and family day care home licensees and staff selected by the principal investigator of the pilot project, to be known as the Access Project, or his or her staff shall be authorized to undertake gastrostomy tube feeding or the administration of medication through nebulizers on children enrolled in their facilities. (c) For the purposes of the pilot project, the following precautions shall be taken: (1) The principal investigator selected by the University of California shall be a person who is licensed to practice medicine in the state and is experienced in supervising programs in which nonmedical personnel perform minor health procedures. (2) The availability of, and interaction with, experienced nurses with appropriate experience, as determined by the principal investigator, shall be part of the study design. (3) Only children with explicit and signed permission from their personal physicians shall be included in the pilot project. (d) The University of California shall notify the department of any family day care provider or child day care center staff selected to participate in the training and procedures described in subdivision (b) prior to undertaking these procedures. (e) Eighteen months after the date funding for the proposed pilot became available for expenditure, the principal investigator of the Access Project shall submit an evaluation of the project to the Assembly Human Services Committee and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee of the Legislature. In preparing the evaluation, the Access Project shall consult with representatives from the State Department of Health Services, the department, family day care associations, family resource centers and networks, the child care center provider community, and child care resource and referral agencies. The principal investigator of the Access Project shall consult with the department to determine the additional data necessary for the department to make use of the evaluation. The evaluation shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (1) The number of family day care home providers who participated in the project, with information identifying the procedure the provider was trained in and his or her licensed capacity and actual enrollment. (2) The number of child day care center staff who participated in the project, with information identifying the procedure the staff was trained in, the licensed capacity and actual enrollment of the program, and the number of staff overall. (3) The number of children who were able to be served in licensed child care programs with trained family day care home providers or child day care center staff. (4) Overall impressions, problems encountered, and satisfaction with the pilot project by providers and staff. (5) Overall impressions, problems encountered, and satisfaction with the pilot project by parents and children. (6) Overall impressions, problems encountered, and satisfaction with the pilot project by licensing staff. (7) Overall impressions, problems encountered, and satisfaction with the pilot project by those providing the training, backup, and monitoring, of a nonlicensing nature. (8) Input from providers, staff, trainers, parents, and children as appropriate about the effectiveness of the pilot project. (9) An assessment of the adequacy of the t
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