Bill Text: WV HB236 | 2024 | 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Providing any employee working 20 hours or more per week in a licensed child care center or certified family child care (FCC) home is eligible for a child care subsidy, regardless of their household income
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-10-06 - To House Health and Human Resources [HB236 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB236-Introduced.html
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 236
By Delegates Young, Hornbuckle, Fluharty, Garcia, Griffith, Hamilton, Hansen, Lewis, Pushkin, Rowe, and Williams
[Introduced ; referred
to the Committee on the ]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §49-2-131, relating to services rendered to children of child care program employees.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2. STATE RESPONSIBILITIES FOR CHILDREN.
§49-2-131. Child care subsidy eligibility for employees of child care programs.
Child care program employees who work a minimum of 20 hours per week, regardless of household income, are eligible for the child care subsidy program through the Department of Human Services.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to ensure child care employees are eligible for the child care subsidy program.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
