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H651 • 2025

Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds.

Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds.

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Lofton, von Haefen, Prather, Helfrich, Ager, Baker, Ball, Belk, T. Brown, Cervania, Clark, Dahle, Greenfield, Hawkins, F. Jackson, Johnson-Hostler, Logan, Longest, Pittman, Rubin
Last action
2025-04-02
Official status
Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Effective date
2025-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

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Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds.

Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds.

What This Bill Does

  • Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-02 House

    Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  2. 2025-04-02 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-04-01 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 651

Short Title: Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Lofton, von Haefen, Prather, and Helfrich (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
April 2, 2025
*H651-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO REDUCE PAR ENT COPAYMENTS FOR S UBSIDIZED CHILD CARE AND 2
TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THAT PURPOSE. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. Section 9D.3(b) of S.L. 2023-134 reads as rewritten: 5
"SECTION 9D.3.(b) Fees for families who are required to share in the cost of care are 6
established based on ten percent (10%) seven percent (7%) of gross family income. When care 7
is received at the blended rate, the copayment shall be eighty-three percent (83%) of the full-time 8
copayment. Copayments for part-time care shall be seventy -five percent (75%) of the full -time 9
copayment." 10
SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 11
Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education, the sum of 12
twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in recurring funds for each year of the 2025-2027 fiscal 13
biennium to reduce parent copayments for subsidized child care in accordance with Section 1 of 14
this act. 15
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 16