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Appropriations Committee advances childcare scholarship package to prioritize waitlist and authorize partial scholarships
Summary
The committee approved a package of childcare scholarship bills that create a statutory wait list, add homeless children and other priority groups to exemptions from an enrollment freeze, and authorize partial scholarships with a sliding fee scale contingent on a companion bill to generate revenue.
The Appropriations Committee voted to advance a package of bills designed to expand access to Maryland’s childcare scholarship program, prioritize children already on the wait list and authorize partial scholarships funded in part through a sliding fee scale.
Chair (speaker 1) said the work grew from a joint effort with Ways and Means and called it “a really strong package on childcare scholarships.” Alistair, identified on the record as staff from Ways and Means, told the committee the bills together aim to reduce the existing wait list and create a statutory wait list with priority categories.
“So this bill exempts people in certain groups from being affected by a freeze…
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