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House rejects motion to recommit DHS budget after heated debate over child care funding
Summary
Members urged restoring child-care assistance during a tense floor debate on the Department of Human Services conference report; a motion to recommit the bill for further conference failed 39–76 after members said the package lacked money for vouchers and providers.
Mississippi lawmakers sparred on the House floor over the state’s decision not to restore child-care assistance in the Department of Human Services conference report, and a motion to recommit the bill for further conference failed.
"Parents are not going to be able to go to work. Employers will be impacted. Child care providers, and you may only have a couple of them in your districts, will close because they won't have enough money to take care of our children," said Representative Miss Summers (Lady from Hines), who moved to recommit the…
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