Relating to the state child care assistance eligibility requirements and provider reimbursement rates

Same legislation: HF 505

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedJanuary 27, 2021
Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2021
Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
Next: Passes the Senate
Next: House committee
Next: Passes the House
Next: To the Governor
Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to the state child care assistance income eligibility requirements for families and reimbursement rates for child care providers. The state child care assistance program is administered by the department of human services (DHS). The bill directs DHS to amend its administrative rules to provide income eligibility for state child care assistance, according to family size for children needing basic care, to families whose nonexempt gross monthly income does not exceed 150 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2021; 160 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2022; 170 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2023; 180 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2024; 190 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2025; and 200 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2026.

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The bill also directs DHS to amend its administrative rules to provide that eligibility for the child care assistance plus exit program shall continue until a family’s nonexempt gross monthly income exceeds 250 percent of the federal poverty level. The bill directs DHS, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, to set reimbursement rates for child care providers under the state child care assistance program to rates based on the most recent market rate survey completed in 2020.

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Senate subcommittee

Named January 28, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Lobbying

8 for · 0 against · 8 undecided · Who →

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89th General Assembly

SF 177Cleared committeeSenate companion HF 505Cleared committeeHouse companion

Picked up later

SF 62Cleared committee90th GA

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

SF 2110 Relating to the family income eligibility requirement for state child care assistance
88th General Assembly · In committee · similar
Cleared committee

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