HB321
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Amend KRS 199.894 to define terms; apply definitions to Section 2 of the Act; amend KRS 199.8982 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services allow certified family child-care home providers and licensed type II child-care centers to participate in the Child Care Assistance Program and establish requirements related to a provider's children in the program and other nonrelative children of the provider that are served in the program.
Introduced: January 12, 2026
Last action: January 28, 2026
Plain-language summary
This bill would change Kentucky law to require the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services to allow certain home-based and smaller child care providers to take part in the Child Care Assistance Program, which helps families pay for child care. It also sets rules about which children in those settings can be counted under the program. The change would expand the types of providers families can choose from when using state child care assistance. Who it may affect: families receiving child care assistance, and certified home-based or smaller licensed child care providers.
Legislative History
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