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Committee sends partial child care modernization language to General Register after debate on parent access and furnishings
Summary
The House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee voted to refer House File 2,078 to the General Register with a divided DE1 amendment that advances new parent-access language and changes to child-care furnishing and equipment rules while leaving other modernization proposals for later.
The House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee voted to refer House File 2,078 to the General Register after dividing and approving parts of a DE1 amendment that would add a parent-access clarification and change classroom furnishing and equipment rules for child care centers.
The committee approved moving the bill with the divided DE1 amendment by voice vote; Representative West, chair of the committee, moved the bill and renewed that motion after debate.
The approved portion addresses two items the sponsor and committee said have broad support from child-care providers and Department staff: a parent-access provision clarifying when an enrolling parent or guardian may access their child at a center and a modernization of a…
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