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Finance committee keeps childcare-workforce federal request language, strips state-funding mandate
Summary
Division 3 preserved federal-request language for a $15 million childcare workforce program but removed a provision that would require the state to fully fund the program. Two related bills (HB1515 and HB1566) were amended and recommended to the floor; the committee placed related items on consent.
Representative Mooney and Division 3 moved to retain sections I–VI of the childcare workforce language included in earlier budget language while deleting a section that would have obligated the state to fully fund the program. "These six sections... spell out the childcare workforce program," Mooney said, adding that the federal request was for $15,000,000 over two years ("about $7,500,000 in each…
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