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Legislators hear broad support for childcare licensing reforms tied to OPAGA recommendations
Summary
Delegates and provider groups told the committee HB 15‑74 would streamline licensing, tier complaint responses, ease certain burdens that reduce provider capacity, and study illegal/unlicensed care; witnesses cited a 26% decline in childcare workers and urged measured reforms to stabilize supply.
Delegate Jared Solomon presented HB 15‑74 to the Ways and Means Committee as a package of regulatory changes and process improvements drawn from an OPAGA review of the Division of Early Childhood and licensing practices.
Solomon and testimony from providers and advocates emphasized workforce shortages, regulatory burdens that can remove programs from higher quality tiers for brief infractions, and the need for clearer, tiered complaint and…
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