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Child‑care providers ask Senate to fund peer review appeals and consider free care for child‑care workers
Summary
Multiple child‑care operators told the Senate Finance Committee that Ohio must add a peer review appeals process to licensing rules to prevent closures and that Senate Bill 177 (free childcare for child‑care workers) would help recruit and retain staff and expand capacity.
Child‑care owners and CEOs testified to the Senate Finance Committee urging support for two related items in the HB 96 deliberations: reinstating a peer review appeal process for licensing decisions and adopting Senate Bill 177, which would allow child‑care workers to receive free care for their own children in exchange for providing services.
Neferi (Nafree) Cook of the CEO Project said that without a peer review appeal mechanism “no business in Ohio should be…
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