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SB-310, As Passed Senate, May 20, 2026
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SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 310
A bill to amend 1973 PA 116, entitled
"An act to provide for the protection of children through the
licensing and regulation of child care organizations; to provide
for the establishment of standards of care for child care
organizations; to prescribe powers and duties of certain
departments of this state and adoption facilitators; to provide
penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
(MCL 722.111 to 722.128) by adding section 6b.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 6b. (1) The tri-share child care program is established 1
in the department of lifelong education, advancement, and potential 2
for the continuation of the child care facilitator program 3
originally initiated and funded as a pilot project under section 4
1047(31) of article 5 of 2020 PA 166 , and as continued and modified 5
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in successive appropriations . 1
(2) The tri-share child care fund is created within the state 2
treasury. 3
(3) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from 4
any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall 5
direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit 6
to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments. 7
(4) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year must 8
remain in the fund and must not lapse to the general fund. 9
(5) The department of lifelong education, advancement, and 10
potential is the administrator of the fund for auditing purposes. 11
(6) The department of lifelong education, advancement, and 12
potential shall expend money from the fund, upon appropriation, to 13
do all of the following: 14
(a) Administer the tri-share care program established under 15
subsection (1). 16
(b) Support tri-share regional recruitment and statewide 17
services. 18
(c) Create and enforce benchmarks for regional recruitment and 19
statewide services for any program partner receiving appropriated 20
funds. 21
(7) The department of lifelong education, advancement, and 22
potential shall award funds to ensure regional employer recruitment 23
efforts and statewide program administration. The department of 24
lifelong education, advancement, and potential may provide 25
quarterly advances for timely provider payments. On conclusion of 26
the program or termination of any grant agreement, any unspent 27
award funds held by any program partner must be spent down toward 28
this state's share of child care payments or returned to th is state 29
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at the discretion of the department of lifelong education, 1
advancement, and potential . 2
(8) The department of lifelong education, advancement, and 3
potential shall innovate program and administration options to 4
attract employer program participation in this state. 5
(9) A child care facilitator receiving funds under this 6
section must be a nonprofit, a limited liability company, a C-7
corporation, an S-corporation, an intermediate school district, or 8
a sole proprietor. 9