Senate bill S.2270, "Smart Start: The Community Collaborative for Early Childhood Development Act of 1988," is designed to provide financial assistance to states and localities for high quality early childhood development programs for prekindergarten children. The first and second purposes of the act are to make widely available to prekindergarten children, especially low-income children, a high-quality, child-centered, developmentally appropriate early childhood education program, and to make widely available to parents a full workday and full calendar-year program in which they can enroll prekindergarten-aged children. Substantive sections of the text concern: (1) findings and purposes; (2) definitions; (3) program authority and authorization; (4) eligibility for federal assistance; (5) allotments to states; (6) local and within-state allocation; (7) planning grants; (8) the State Interagency Advisory Task Force; (9) the lead state agency; (10) the state application and state plan; (11) the local policy group; (12) the local plan and application; (13) eligible children and families; (14) use of funds; (15) minimum standards; (16) administrative provisions; (17) evaluation; (18) nondiscrimination; and (19) payments, federal share, and maintenance of the effort. (RH)