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Committee on Families and Children approves bill to make childcare-assistance agreement downloadable and accept nonportal submissions
Summary
At its fourth meeting, the House standing Committee on Families and Children approved House Bill 508, requiring the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make the standardized childcare-assistance agreement viewable and downloadable and to accept submissions by email, mail or an online portal. The vote was 13-0 with a favorable expression.
State Representative Jennifer Decker, District 58, asked the House standing Committee on Families and Children to pass House Bill 508, and the committee approved the measure by a 13-0 vote with a favorable expression.
Decker said the bill addresses problems that arose during 2024 implementation of House Bill 499, which created a public-private employee childcare assistance program and assigned administration of the program to the Cabinet for Health and Family…
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