Amendment H-8333 to HF 2578
Relating to appropriations for health and human services and veterans and including other related provisions and appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date and retroactive and other applicability date provisions
Ruled not germane · April 5, 2022
Filed April 5, 2022 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment increases two specific funding amounts by $10,000,000 each. It also adds a new $10,000,000 fund to provide incentives to child care centers that pay their staff at least $15 per hour.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 28, line 14, by striking “40,816,931” and inserting “50,816,931”
- Page 28, line 15, after “
- ” by inserting “a.”
- Page 28, line 15, by striking “34,966,931” and inserting “44,966,931”
- Page 28, after line 17 by inserting: “b. Of the funds appropriated in this section, $10,000,000 shall be used to fund a salary increase incentive fund. The fund shall be available to a child care center registered to provide child care under the state child care assistance program that pays staff counted as part of the child care center’s staff ratio a minimum of $15 per hour. Payments from the fund to an eligible child care center shall be based on the number of staff counted as part of a child care center’s staff ratio and shall be paid on a first-come-first-serve basis until the fund is exhausted. The department of human services shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to implement this subsection, including rules requiring that, beginning July 1, 2022, as a condition of receiving payment through the state child care assistance program, a child care center shall pay its staff counted as part of the child care center’s staff ratio a minimum of $15 per hour.”