A bill to provide State funding to ensure that essential workers can access child care.
Helping Health Care Workers Afford Child and Elder Care Act
This bill provides funding for FY2020 for child and adult-dependent care services for essential workers. Essential workers include (1) health-sector employees, (2) emergency responders, (3) sanitation workers, (4) employees of businesses required to remain open during the public health emergency declared on January 31, 2020, and (5) other workers a state deems essential and who are unable to telework. Eligibility for such funding is not based on income.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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