HF 51: Relating to child care assistance payments for children who are absent from regularly scheduled child care days

What it does

This bill relates to child care assistance payments for children who are absent from regularly scheduled child care days. The bill directs the department of health and human services to amend its rules to require that state child care assistance program payments be made to a child care provider for the time a child is regularly scheduled to receive child care at a child care facility regardless of whether the child is in attendance during those regularly scheduled days provided that the child care provider would charge a private individual for the scheduled child care.

Lobbying · 14 for, 0 against

For: Association of Early Childhood Iowa Area Boards and Advocates; CHILDSERVE; Common Good Iowa; Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce; Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce; Easterseals Iowa; Greater Des Moines Partnership; IA Mental Health Planning Council; Iowa Chamber Alliance; Iowa Community Action Association; League of Women Voters of Iowa; Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce; and 2 more

In plain words

1. January 17, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the Health and Human Services committee