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Committee advances Working Connections childcare changes after adopting attendance tiers and survey delay
Summary
The committee gave Substitute House Bill 2,689 a due-pass recommendation after adopting amendments that delay a strict 65% market-rate survey requirement and create a three-tier attendance reimbursement schedule; fiscal notes cited multi-hundred-million-dollar savings projections.
The Ways and Means Committee advanced Substitute House Bill 2,689, which revises reimbursement and rate-setting rules for the Working Connections childcare program, giving the substitute bill a due-pass recommendation to the rules committee after adopting key amendments.
An analyst summarized that the substitute bill would change the program’s attendance-based reimbursement policy, modify planned rate increases (the transcript contains an unclear percentile reference), introduce a 65% market-rate survey response-rate requirement for rate-setting, and…
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