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Committee backs childcare bill to count preschool work for educator relicensing, allow small HTRZ funding for facilities
Summary
The committee unanimously approved first substitute HB 410, which treats employment as a preschool teacher in licensed childcare as equivalent to K–12 employment for relicensing and allows up to 1% of Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone (HTRZ) funds to go to construction or expansion of childcare facilities.
The House Economic Development Workforce Services Committee unanimously approved first substitute HB 410, childcare amendments, and later adopted an amendment clarifying language to allow construction or expansion of childcare facilities and to use the term "relicensing" consistently.
Sponsor Representative Tracy Miller told the committee the bill makes two policy changes: it directs the State Board to consider employment duration as a preschool teacher in a licensed childcare program as equivalent to employment in a district, charter or accredited private school for relicensing purposes; and it adds expansion…
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