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Committee approves childcare employer tax-credit bill after heated budget amendments fail
Summary
The committee passed HB 1177 to realign the childcare employer tax credit and expand community-based childcare opportunities. Multiple Porter amendments to direct contingency funds and expand pre-K funding were debated and mostly withdrawn or defeated; final vote was 19–0.
Representative Amanda Cash presented HB 1177, describing it as a high-level realignment of the childcare employer tax credit intended to expand community-based childcare opportunities; she said the bill carries no immediate fiscal impact as drafted.
Representative Porter offered several contested amendments during committee consideration. Amendment #3 proposed dedicating $300,000,000 from the state’s contingency (the so-called FROG fund)—money Porter said FSSA had reverted back to the state—to CCDF childcare…
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