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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Julian Cyr

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to child care cost transparency.

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PETITION OF:

SENATE DOCKET, NO. 2292        FILED ON: 1/17/2025

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)

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An Act relative to child care cost transparency.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

An Act relative to child care cost transparency

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.