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HB787 • 2026

Revise the law governing the Child Care Choice Voucher Program

Revise the law governing the Child Care Choice Voucher Program

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Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Desiree Tims
Last action
Official status
As Introduced
Effective date
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Revise the law governing the Child Care Choice Voucher Program

To amend Section 423.190 of H.B.

What This Bill Does

  • To amend Section 423.190 of H.B.
  • 96 of the 136th General Assembly to revise the law governing the Child Care Choice Voucher Program.

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Bill History

  1. Ohio Legislature

    As Introduced

Official Summary Text

To amend Section 423.190 of H.B. 96 of the 136th General Assembly to revise the law governing the Child Care Choice Voucher Program.

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As Introduced

136th
General Assembly

Regular
Session
H. B. No. 787

2025-2026

Representatives Tims, Lett

Cosponsors: Representatives McNally,
Rader, Piccolantonio, Brennan, Abdullahi, Miller, J., White, E.,
Brownlee, Rogers, Glassburn, Sims, Synenberg, Brewer, Troy

To
amend Section 423.190 of H.B. 96 of the 136th General Assembly
to
revise the law governing the Child Care Choice Voucher Program.

BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section
1.
That
Section 423.190 of H.B. 96 of the 136th General Assembly be amended
to read as follows:

Sec.
423.190.
CHILD
CARE CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM

(A)
Of the foregoing appropriation item, 830604, Child Care, a portion in
each fiscal year, along with $50,000,000 in each fiscal year in
appropriation item 830605, TANF Block Grant, shall be used by the
Department of Children and Youth to establish and administer the
Child Care Choice Voucher Program. Subject to available funds, the
program shall provide support, in the form of vouchers, to families
to assist them with child care costs. To be eligible to participate
in the program, a family must meet all of the following conditions:

(1)
The caretaker parent is employed or participating in a program of
education or training for an amount of time reasonably related to the
time that the parent's children are receiving child care.

(2)
The family does not meet the income conditions for initial
eligibility under the Publicly Funded Child Care Program administered
by the Department as described in section 5104.30 of the Revised
Code, but the maximum amount of the family's income does not exceed

two

four

hundred
percent of the federal poverty line.

(3)
The family meets any other condition established by the Department.

(B)
In providing vouchers under this section, both of the following
apply:

(1)
The program shall utilize, not later than November 1, 2026, the
publicly funded child care payment rates established in section
5104.30 of the Revised Code, except that such payment rates shall not
be enhanced payment rates as described in division (E)(2)(c) of that
section.

(2)
If a participating family uses its voucher at a type A family child
care home or licensed type B family child care home, the program
shall not require the family child care home to be rated through the
Step Up to Quality Program administered by the Department as
described in section 5104.29 of the Revised Code.

Section
2.
That
existing Section 423.190 of H.B. 96 of the 136th General Assembly is
hereby repealed.