AN ACT relating to the family child care homes.

Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; 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 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.

Financial Responsibility Parental Rights Public Assistance State Agencies Administrative Regulations and Proceedings Children and Minors

Introduced: February 19, 2025

Last action: March 14, 2025

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This bill would require the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services to allow certified family child care home providers to take part in the Child Care Assistance Program, which helps families pay for child care. It also sets rules about how children in a provider's own household and unrelated children in their care are counted under the program. The changes would affect how in-home child care providers qualify for and participate in state-funded child care assistance. Who it may affect: certified family child care home providers and low-income families using the Child Care Assistance Program.

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