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Senate approves changes to Working Connections childcare program, moving payments to attendance-based model
Summary
The Washington State Senate passed Substitute House Bill 2689, changing provider payments in the Working Connections childcare program to an attendance-based system, setting subsidy rates to a market benchmark and removing planned income-eligibility expansions. The bill passed by a constitutional majority and was transmitted to the House.
The Washington State Senate on March 11 approved Substitute House Bill 2689, a package of changes to the Working Connections childcare program that tie provider payments to attendance and adjust how subsidy rates are set.
Sponsor Senator Robinson urged colleagues to support the measure, saying the bill "modifies the way that providers are paid. They will be paid by attendance, the number of days that a child is in their care" and that it "requires…
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