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HB4067 • 2026

Providing any employee working 20 hours or more per week in a licensed child care center or certified family child care (FCC) home is eligible for a child care subsidy, regardless of their household income

Providing any employee working 20 hours or more per week in a licensed child care center or certified family child care (FCC) home is eligible for a child care subsidy, regardless of their household income

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Sponsor
Crouse, Drennan , Young , Petitto , Pinson
Last action
2026-02-18
Official status
H To House Finance 02/18/26
Effective date
Not listed

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-18 H

    To House Finance

  2. 2026-02-18 H

    By substitute, do pass, but first to Finance

  3. 2026-02-12 H

    Markup Discussion

  4. 2026-02-12 H

    To House Health and Human Resources

  5. 2026-02-03 H

    Markup Discussion

  6. 2026-02-03 H

    To House Human Services

  7. 2026-01-14 H

    To House Health and Human Resources

  8. 2026-01-14 H

    Introduced in House

  9. 2026-01-14 H

    To Health and Human Resources then Finance

  10. 2026-01-14 H

    Filed for introduction

Official Summary Text

Providing any employee working 20 hours or more per week in a licensed child care center or certified family child care (FCC) home is eligible for a child care subsidy, regardless of their household income

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WEST virginia legislature
2026 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
House Bill 4067
By Delegates Crouse, Drennan, Young, Petitto, and Pinson
[Originating in the Committee on Health and Human Resources; Reported on February 17, 2026]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated §49-2-113a, relating to child-care subsidies.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 2. STATE RESPONSIBILITIES FOR CHILDREN.

§49-2-113a. Child care support

(a) (1) A licensed child care program shall be paid subsidy payments based on monthly enrollment.
(2) The department shall review quarterly, and make ineligible for the subsidy a parent whose child does not attend a child care program on average of at least 8 days per month.
(3) For the purposes of this subsection, “day” means a child has attended a child care program for 4 hours, or an afterschool program for 2.5 hours.
(b) An employee who works a minimum of 32 hours per week providing child care services at a child care program or a family child care home within the state is eligible to receive a child care subsidy regardless of income.
(c) The department shall use a cost of care modeling tool to determine the amount the subsidy, and report to the Joint Committee on Health by December 1, 2026.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
update the administration of child care subsidy.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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