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H275 • 2025

An Act relative to child care cost transparency

An Act relative to child care cost transparency

Children Education
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Sponsor
Tram T. Nguyen
Last action
2025-08-20
Official status
Referred to Joint Committee on Education
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act relative to child care cost transparency

An Act relative to child care cost transparency By Representative Nguyen of Andover, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act relative to child care cost transparency By Representative Nguyen of Andover, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 275) of Tram T.
  • Nguyen and Vanna Howard relative to child care cost transparency.
  • Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-08-20 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 09/02/2025 from 1:00 PM-5:00 PM in A-2

  2. 2025-03-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

  3. 2025-03-20 House

    Discharged to the committee on Education

  4. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities

  5. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to child care cost transparency
By Representative Nguyen of Andover, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 275) of Tram T. Nguyen and Vanna Howard relative to child care cost transparency. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.
Status:
Referred to Joint Committee on Education

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.275

SECTION 1. Section 6 of chapter 15D, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting the following paragraph:-

(f) All private early education and care programs licensed by the department, including school-aged child care programs, child care centers, family child care homes and large family child care homes, with a standard rate of attendance and a publicly available website shall clearly display such rate, per child, per level, through said website, provided that programs licensed under this section with no such publicly available website shall disclose the standard rate of attendance upon reasonable inquiry. All such programs reserve the right to disclose the stated price as subject to change or other terms or services, provided that such listed price is a reasonably accurate estimate.

SECTION 2.

Section 1 shall take effect one year following enactment of this act.

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