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Child-care providers press Senate to restore peer-review appeals and adopt workforce supports including SB177
Summary
Multiple child-care owners and the CEO Project asked the Senate to restore a peer-review appeal process removed from the budget and to adopt workforce supports such as Senate Bill 177 (free child care for child-care workers) and expanded eligibility for publicly funded care.
Several child-care owners and advocates told the Senate Finance Committee that Ohio's child-care system is underfunded, that the peer-review appeal mechanism for licensing decisions should be restored to the budget, and that the Legislature should adopt workforce-focused proposals to stabilize the sector.
Nafree Cook of the CEO Project described the licensing appeal issue and the risk to small providers: "No one should lose their business due to the vagueness of rules, the ambiguity of rules, the difference in interpretation of rules," she said, asking senators to "add the peer…
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