Legislators from Ohio again try with means of attacking children’s care crisis that supporters warn, will still harm the family and state economy, including a bill that disseminates the costs of childcare among employers, employees and states.
Representative of the state of Mark Johnson, R-chilllicothe, re-introduced the invoice that he said, he came “Late in the game” last yearGiving him uphill to go, because the Republican seasideness tried to close the date of the General Assembly with other priorities.
But Johnson’s account is now Ohio House Bill 2And he was introduced very early in the recent General Assembly, and his first hearing in the home committee for social services took place on Tuesday.
This draft law and his companion a project conducted in the Ohio Senate by Senator Michele Reynolds, R-Canal Winchester, aims to direct $ 10 million to the “childcare program” in the Department of Children and Youth in Ohio, to be distributed “he,” HE. According to Johnson, first served. “
Bill models his child care program after Ohio Technical programwhich encourages employers to save employees to building skills and combine them with confirming providers in exchange for reimbursement.
The children’s care program would create a application process for employers who identify needs in their employees to aid childcare.
A program that involves an employer, an employee and a state is a way in which Johnson in order to attach A crisis that only hurts the Ohio economy More, the longer it lasts.
The average cost of childcare increased annually and 2024 Report from Care.com Found 1 out of 5 American households pay $ 36,000 a year for taking care of their children.
“This financial varieties forced many parents, especially mothers, to shorten working hours or completely leave their jobs to manage the duties of childcare,” said Johnson.
According to Johnson, in some areas of state, the indicators of participation in the working force are as low as 50% leave your work.
“If we want to remain known as a business -friendly state, we must take care of the crisis of childcare,” said the representative on Tuesday.
Johnson mentioned the proposal of Governor Mike Dewine in the proposed executive budget, released on Monday, in order to escalate the right to care for children financed by public from 145% to 200% of the federal level of poverty. But Johnson said that simply increasing the level of eligibility, “we reward employers who pay a modest salary.”
Chairman of the Committee for Children and Social Welfare, a representative of the state Andrea White, R-kettering, is not alien to forcing the legislator to solve the problem of childcare, having a problem with childcare, having a problem with childcare He successfully supported A broadly extensive account in the last general assembly, which directs various state agencies to study process and programs about everything, from infant mortality to childcare programs such as Head Start.
Although she still hopes that financing, which has been omitted from her account, appeared in the recent operational budget, White is not ready to care for children and the well -being of children.
On Tuesday, white and other Republican Republican representatives Sharon Ray, R-WadSWORTH were presented House Bill 7. Legislation aims to “increase the number of stable, safe family replacement homes and long -term kinship care options by providing care for children for children in a foster care system,” said White.
Ray said that about 14,300 children are in a foster family in this state, and 4,000 people placed with a relative or family friend in the care of kinship.
“In the whole board we need more foster families, whether very small children or teenagers,” said Ray. “Let’s get reservations from the table, removing things that disturb current and potential substitute parents and kinship, so that more loving, caring families can tell our children.”
Both bills will see further interrogations to allow supporters and opponents to convey their opinions about bills before voting by the committee, and if they are approved, they went to vote a full home.
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