Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Ways and Means Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2593
Renames the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
<b>Digest: The Act changes the name of a state program that helps people pay for child care. The Act tells an agency to bring people together to study and create a plan related to the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 75.4).</b> [<i>Digest: The Act tells the Department of Early Learning and Care to study the impact of a waitlist to receive child care on some families. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6).</i>] [<i>Requires the Department of Early Learning and Care to study the impact on student parents and working parents of the waitlist to participate in the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.</i>] [<i>Directs the department to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to child care no later than September 15, 2026.</i>] <b>Renames the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program. <b>Directs the Department of Early Learning and Care to convene stakeholders to study and develop recommendations to remove families from the Employment Related Day Care subsidy program wait-list. Requires the department to submit a report on the recommendations to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to early childhood no later than September 30, 2026.</b>
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
4 co-sponsors
Its course
January 13 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action7 actions on 6 days
In the House of RepresentativesJan 13 to Jun 27 · stopped165 days
Waiting for a committeeJan 13 to Jan 174 days
Early Childhood and Human ServicesJan 17 to Apr 1487 days
Ways and MeansApr 14 to Jun 27 · stopped74 days
Amendments
Each amendment offered, and what became of it.
House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted
Adopted Apr 14
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Jan 13 – Jun 27
- Jan 13Introduced
- Jan 17Sent to Early Childhood and Human Services
- Mar 25Heard in Early Childhood and Human Services
- Apr 8Heard in Early Childhood and Human Services
- Apr 14Early Childhood and Human Services recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
- Sent to Ways and Means
- Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 7 actions, as published
- Jan 13First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.House of Representatives
- Jan 17Referred to Early Childhood and Human Services with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.House of Representatives
- Mar 25Public Hearing held.House of Representatives
- Apr 8Work Session held.House of Representatives
- Apr 14Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and be referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
- Apr 14Referred to Ways and Means by prior reference.House of Representatives
- Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.House of Representatives