LRB-0937/P3
EHS:cdc
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Rice, BB0101 - Child care partnership grant program
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Children
Child care partnership grant program
This bill authorizes DCF to establish a grant program to award funding to businesses that provide or wish to provide child care services for their employees. The bill allows such a grant to be used to reserve child care placements for local business employees, pay child care tuition, and other costs related to child care. Under the bill, a grant recipient must provide at least 25 percent matching funds. The bill allows DCF to promulgate rules to administer the grant program, including to determine eligibility for a grant.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.437 (2) (d) of the statutes is created to read:
20.437 (2) (d) Child care partnership grant program. The amounts in the schedule for the grants under s. 49.133.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 49.132 of the statutes is created to read:
49.132 Child care partnership grant program. (1) In this section, “business" means any organization or enterprise operated for profit or a nonprofit corporation. “Business” does not include a governmental entity.
(2) The department may establish a grant program to award funding to businesses that provide or wish to provide child care services for their employees. A grant awarded under this program may be used to reserve child care placements for local business employees, pay child care tuition, and other costs related to child care.
(3) A business awarded a grant under this section shall provide matching funds equal to 25 percent or more of the amount awarded.
(4) The department may promulgate rules to administer this section, including to determine eligibility for a grant.
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