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Committee urged to adopt cost‑of‑quality childcare measures to better target subsidies
Appropriations Committee · February 18, 2026
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Summary
A briefing and provider testimony urged the committee to require DCYF to include a cost‑of‑quality childcare study in its biannual market rate report so subsidy policy reflects provider operating costs and quality benchmarks.
Committee staff briefed members on engrossed substitute Senate Bill 5,500, which would require the Department of Children, Youth, and Families to include a "current cost of quality childcare" study and a cost estimation model developed with the early educator design team in its biannual report to the legislature. Jordan Clark said the change responds to…
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