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Relating to the state child care assistance eligibility requirements and provider reimbursement rates
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 17, 2023
- 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 Families can qualify for state child care assistance if their monthly income stays below certain levels, which will gradually increase each year through 2028. The program also allows families to keep receiving extra help until their income reaches 250 percent of the federal poverty level. Additionally, the state will change how much it pays child care providers based on a recent market survey.1
Read the official explanation
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 health and human services (HHS). The bill directs HHS 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, 2023; 160 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2024; 170 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2025; 180 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2026; 190 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2027; and 200 percent of the federal poverty level, effective July 1, 2028. The bill also directs HHS 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 HHS, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, 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 2021.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 17, 2023. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Lobbying
8 for · 0 against · 9 undecided · Who →
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Tried before
90th General Assembly
Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.
Tried before
This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. None got through a chamber.
- SF 177 Relating to the state child care assistance eligibility requirements and provider reimburs…89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
- HF 505 Relating to the state child care assistance eligibility requirements and provider reimburs…89th General Assembly · In committee · nearly identicalCleared committee
- SF 2009 Relating to the state child care assistance eligibility requirements and provider reimburs…89th General Assembly · In committee · nearly identicalCleared committee
- SF 2110 Relating to the family income eligibility requirement for state child care assistance88th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
Matched by wording or an identical title.