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Appropriations hears bill to expand Best Beginnings eligibility for child-care workers' children
Summary
House Bill 456 would make children of qualified child-care workers eligible for the state Best Beginnings scholarship, with an appropriation of about $5.5 million; sponsor and department witnesses discussed participation assumptions, a 60-hour monthly eligibility threshold, and use of federal preschool-development funds that expire in late 2025.
Representative Jonathan Carlin brought House Bill 456 to the committee, saying the bill would expand Best Beginnings child-care scholarships to children of child-care workers so those workers could afford child care and remain in the workforce.
Carlin said the bill includes a general-fund appropriation (around $5.5 million) and that calculations depend on assumptions about how many child-care staff have children aged 0-5 who would become newly eligible. Using one set of assumptions the sponsor described, an estimated 500 children could be served; the fiscal note used a…
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