---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to early childhood care."
description: "Directs Early Learning Division to establish program to improve access to high quality infant and toddler care for families <i>that are eligible to receive employment-related child care subsidy</i>]<b> whose incomes are at or below 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines</b>."
jurisdiction: "us/states/or"
legislature: "Oregon Legislative Assembly"
session: "2019 Regular Session"
identifier: "HB 2024"
citation: "Oregon HB 2024 (2019 Regular Session)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-14T16:54:51+00:00"
last_action: "2019-08-01T16:20:18+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f59fda01-3b14-4096-8af7-8c317cc70031"
source_url: "https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Measures/Overview/HB2024"
source_hash: "4ffbfc89964609ac773f23684e77553ce0e6f4493894c83aead83bc8a9a013b2"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-or"]
---

# Oregon HB 2024 (2019 Regular Session) — Relating to early childhood care.

Directs Early Learning Division to establish program to improve access to high quality infant and toddler care for families <i>that are eligible to receive employment-related child care subsidy</i>]<b> whose incomes are at or below 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines</b>.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **House Amendments to Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2024/House Amendments to Introduced)
2. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2024/Introduced)
3. **A-Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2024/A-Engrossed)
4. **HHS Amendment -1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/ProposedAmendment/14164)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB2024/Enrolled)

## Votes

- Heard and Reported Out — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Heard and Reported Out with Amendments — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Heard and Reported Out — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third reading. Carried by Noble. Passed. — **56–2** (pass) · lower
- Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Frederick. Passed. — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-14T16:54:51+00:00** First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15T23:56:58+00:00** Referred to Human Services and Housing with subsequent referral to Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20T21:01:00+00:00** Public Hearing held.
- **2019-03-13T20:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2019-03-19T19:47:27+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, subsequent referral to Ways and Means be rescinded, and be referred to Student Success. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-19T19:48:50+00:00** Subsequent referral to Ways and Means rescinded by order of the Speaker.
- **2019-03-19T19:49:50+00:00** Referred to JCSS by order of Speaker. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08T00:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2019-05-09T21:45:03+00:00** Without recommendation as to passage and be referred to Ways and Means.
- **2019-05-09T21:46:26+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means by order of Speaker. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-28T16:42:00+00:00** Assigned to Subcommittee On Education. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-11T15:03:00+00:00** Returned to Full Committee.
- **2019-06-11T15:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2019-06-14T16:02:00+00:00** Work Session held.
- **2019-06-19T14:43:10+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-19T17:44:16+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2019-06-20T18:28:51+00:00** Third reading. Carried by Noble. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-29T14:53:52+00:00** First reading. Referred to President's desk. `introduction, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-29T16:13:51+00:00** Referred to Ways and Means. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-29T22:53:56+00:00** Recommendation: Do pass the A-Eng. bill. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-30T02:02:34+00:00** Second reading. `reading-2`
- **2019-06-30T03:49:22+00:00** Rules suspended. Third reading. Carried by Frederick. Passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-07-02T22:16:59+00:00** Speaker signed. `passage`
- **2019-07-03T21:51:02+00:00** President signed. `passage`
- **2019-07-23T18:09:47+00:00** Governor signed. `executive-signature`
- **2019-08-01T16:20:18+00:00** Chapter 573, (2019 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f59fda01-3b14-4096-8af7-8c317cc70031`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oregon legislature records).