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Division III examines childcare workforce and developmental-disability budget adjustments
Summary
Lawmakers reviewed proposals to fund the childcare workforce program (previously funded at $15 million per biennium), discussed whether TANF reserve funds could be used, and introduced developmental services budget reductions while seeking department review of impacts on direct care, wait lists and rates.
At the Division III hearing, legislators revisited childcare funding and developmental disabilities (DD) spending amid a broader effort to trim general-fund outlays.
Representative Wallner and others urged continuation of the childcare workforce grant program that the prior budget had funded at $15 million over the biennium (about $7.5 million annually); committee members discussed whether the money might be taken from the TANF reserve, which DHHS staff estimated holds roughly $57 million. Division…
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