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Relating to payments to child care providers participating in the state child care assistance program
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 24, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 25, 2024
- 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 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The state would increase the amount of money paid to child care providers who work with families in the child care assistance program. Instead of paying a middle-range amount based on market surveys, the state would now pay providers at a much higher rate. This change also stops providers from charging families the extra difference between the state payment and their normal fees.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to payments to child care providers participating in the state child care assistance (CCA) program. At least once every two years, the department of health and human services (HHS) conducts a statewide reimbursement rate survey to evaluate the market rate of child care services offered throughout the state and adjust the reimbursement rates paid to child care providers through the CCA program accordingly. The bill requires HHS to reimburse each provider providing child care services to a child participating in the CCA program at a rate equal to the 85th percentile of the most recent market rate survey. Under current law, HHS must set rates between the 65th and 80th percentile of the 2020 market rate survey. The bill removes child care providers’ ability to collect from a family participating in the CCA program the difference between the CCA reimbursement rate and the rate the provider would typically charge a private-pay family for child care.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 25, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.
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