1E Relating to child care

ARTICLE 1 - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Requiring parents residing in a parent aware plus region to choose a rated child care provider for pre-school age children; establishing a provider rate differential for parent aware rated four-star programs; defining terms; requiring department of human services request for proposal development for organizations; requiring parent aware to use quality ratings; providing a selection process for parent aware regions; providing early childhood education scholarships; providing a single scholarship program funding access to high-quality early learning and care programs for low-income children; requiring the commissioner of human services to direct certain amounts of funding from federal funds to implement parent aware and designating certain amounts to assist eligible programs to participate in parent aware; requiring waiver process development; appropriating money to the department of human services for early childhood education scholarships

ARTICLE 2 - TAX CREDITS

Establishing an individual income tax early childhood train and retain credit, specifying credits allowed and appropriating money to pay for the tax credit; establishing an individual or corporate income tax early childhood education access to quality tax credit and establishing an income tax early childhood education quality improvement credit, specifying credits allowed and responsibilities of various parties
(rt)