Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: funding for child care provider workforce training and making an appropriation. (FE)
Children and families department of Day care Employment
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law authorizes the Department of Children and Families to contract with one or more agencies for the provision of training and technical assistance to improve the quality of child care provided in this state. Under current law, these contracts are funded from an allocation of federal moneys, including child care development funds and moneys received under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program. This bill appropriates $2,166,600 in general purpose revenue funding in each fiscal year of the 2025-27 fiscal biennium for contracts that focus on workforce training for child care providers and prospective providers.
Sponsors
Introduced by: Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Drake (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)
35 cosponsors
Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Billings (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSanto (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Hong (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Kirsch (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Prado (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)
Registered lobbying interests · 1
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Full history
- Feb 12, 2026 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Dassler-Alfheim, L. Johnson, Drake, Hesselbein, Larson, Ratcliff, Spreitzer, Habush Sinykin, Roys and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Emerson, Joers, Rivera-Wagner, Anderson, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Billings, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Hong, J. Jacobson, Johnson, Kirsch, Madison, Mayadev, McCarville, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Palmeri, Phelps, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stroud, Stubbs, Tenorio, Udell, Vining and DeSanto
- Feb 12, 2026 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development
- Mar 10, 2026 · Senate
Representative Prado added as a cosponsor
- Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1