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2024 SESSION
24-2382.0
05/08
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to administration of the child care scholarship program.
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ANALYSIS
This bill directs the department of health and human services to prioritize applications by child care employees for child care scholarships. The bill also provides that applications will be reviewed in an ongoing basis and prohibits waiting periods for reapplication following an application denial.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2382.0
05/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to administration of the child care scholarship program.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Child Care Scholarship Program. Amend RSA 161:2, XII to read as follows:
XII. Social Service Programs. Develop a broad range of social and related services aimed at preventing dependency and family breakdown, promoting child development and child care, protecting vulnerable children and enabling them to live in their own homes or foster homes rather than in institutions, assisting individuals to attain and maintain self-support and strengthen family life, develop and operate social service programs within the department of health and human services, receive and distribute such federal funds which are allocated specifically to the state for day care for children and adults, and purchase or contract with other agencies or individuals to provide direct grants from sums appropriated for such purpose to other agencies upon submission of approvable plans within the objectives of this paragraph. Child care provided as a preventive or protective service shall be available to grandparents who are the legal guardians or primary caretakers of their grandchildren. Beginning July 1, 2021, child care providers who contract with the department to provide preventive and protective child care services shall be trained in trauma-informed care. The child care scholarship program administered by the department shall prioritize the applications of child care employees, shall review applications on an ongoing basis, and shall not impose a waiting period for reapplication following denial for incomplete information.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.