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Bill AN ACT relating to child care. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms; establish operations and requirements of a Certified Child Care Community Designation Program to be administered by the Cabinet for Economic Development for the purpose of creating new opportunities for local governments to help increase the supply of child care and early childhood education services in their communities through voluntary actions related to zoning reform and programming at the local level; require annual reporting to the General Assembly related to the operation of the program; amend KRS 199.881 to remove the pilot program designation of the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership; amend KRS 199.887 to establish new requirements on an employee and a child care provider who receives child care assistance from his or her employer; amend KRS 199.888 to establish a new requirement on the Cabinet for Economic Development to develop and implement strategies and programs to promote awareness of the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership. us/states/ky Kentucky General Assembly 2024RS HB 561 Kentucky HB 561 (2024RS)
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Children and Minors
Economic Development
Local Government
Personnel and Employment
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B. Chester-Burton
J. Raymond
K. Fleming
K. Moser
M. Clines
R. Heath
S. Heavrin
3 25 3 2024-02-15T05:00:00+00:00 2024-04-05T04:00:00+00:00 openstates ocd-bill/a2a39d0e-a7a3-4a41-b69e-8013df8a09c6 https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb561.html 7a76c0a51351f16c7b941ba715da00e88ba5a0272222a79a369d3daf85ea1a82 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Kentucky HB 561 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to child care.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms; establish operations and requirements of a Certified Child Care Community Designation Program to be administered by the Cabinet for Economic Development for the purpose of creating new opportunities for local governments to help increase the supply of child care and early childhood education services in their communities through voluntary actions related to zoning reform and programming at the local level; require annual reporting to the General Assembly related to the operation of the program; amend KRS 199.881 to remove the pilot program designation of the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership; amend KRS 199.887 to establish new requirements on an employee and a child care provider who receives child care assistance from his or her employer; amend KRS 199.888 to establish a new requirement on the Cabinet for Economic Development to develop and implement strategies and programs to promote awareness of the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership.

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Acts Chapter 88 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Pass — pass (pass) · lower
  • Final Passage — pass (pass) · lower
  • PASS HB 561 W/ scs1 — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • B. Chester-Burton — primary (person)
  • J. Raymond — primary (person)
  • K. Fleming — primary (person)
  • K. Moser — primary (person)
  • M. Clines — primary (person)
  • R. Heath — primary (person)
  • S. Heavrin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-02-15T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
  • 2024-02-15T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
  • 2024-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 to Families & Children (H) referral-committee
  • 2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
  • 2024-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
  • 2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 27, 2024
  • 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 77-14 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
  • 2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
  • 2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
  • 2024-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 to Families & Children (S) referral-committee
  • 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
  • 2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill reading-2
  • 2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 14, 2024
  • 2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day passage
  • 2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day passage
  • 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 37-1 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
  • 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
  • 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
  • 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 passed 86-9 passage
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
  • 2024-04-05T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 88) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a2a39d0e-a7a3-4a41-b69e-8013df8a09c6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).