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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to child care."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199.892 to 199.896 to allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to give foster parents child-care benefits if the foster parent is working outside the home or teleworking inside the home; require the cabinet to apply for a waiver if deemed necessary by the cabinet."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2024RS"
identifier: "SB 240"
citation: "Kentucky SB 240 (2024RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children and Minors", "Public Assistance", "State Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Armstrong", "R. Thomas"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-21T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-05T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96e90f82-6c48-49b7-8d21-0f3a0dadd8e5"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb240.html"
source_hash: "98cc04e841d257a2072936afb2c80937c2211bfc3d3cc29bc1572c5629b81fcf"
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-ky"]
---
# Kentucky SB 240 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to child care.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199.892 to 199.896 to allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to give foster parents child-care benefits if the foster parent is working outside the home or teleworking inside the home; require the cabinet to apply for a waiver if deemed necessary by the cabinet.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb240/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 84** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/24RS/documents/0084.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb240/bill.pdf)
## Votes
- Final Passage — **pass** (pass) · upper
- PASS SB 240 — **pass** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- C. Armstrong — primary (person)
- R. Thomas — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** to Families & Children (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 07, 2024
- **2024-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** to Families & Children (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 25, 2024
- **2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 91-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2024-04-05T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 84) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96e90f82-6c48-49b7-8d21-0f3a0dadd8e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).