Digest: The Act changes the name of a state program that helps people pay for child care. The Act tells an agency to bring people together to study and create a plan related to the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.4). [Digest: The Act tells the Department of Early Learning and Care to study the impact of a waitlist to receive child care on some families. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6).] [Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study the impact on student parents and working parents of the waitlist to participate in the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.] [Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to child care no later than September 15, 2026.] Renames the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program. Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to convene stakeholders to study and develop recommendations to remove families from the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program wait-list. Requires the department to submit a report on the recommendations to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to early childhood no later than September 30, 2026.

Statutes affected:
A-Engrossed: 315.264, 329A.500, 329A.723, 406.072