Amendment ID: S2973-18-R1

Redraft Amendment 18

Data Tracking to Promote Equity

Ms. Moran, Ms. Rausch, Mr. Eldridge, Ms. Chang-Diaz and Messrs. Moore, Timilty, Pacheco, Montigny, O'Connor, Keenan and Cyr move that the proposed new draft be amended in section 10, in the second paragraph of section 2 of chapter 15D, by striking out proposed clause (v) and inserting in place the following clause:-

“(v) annually, in consultation with the data advisory commission established in section 12A, collect and make publicly available on the department’s website data that provides information on the cost and quality of early education and child care services; provided, however, that the data shall include, but not be limited to, the: (1) number of licensed or exempt child care providers; (2) total cost of subsidies provided by the department or its agents; (3) total number of all children receiving early education and care subsidies by region, age, type of care, race and ethnicity and disability status of the child, primary language of the household, number of adults in the household and the income range of the household; (4) average monthly number and percentage of utilized contracted slots and vouchers by region and type of care provided; (5) per cent of children enrolled in each subsidized child care program whose family has an income of not more than 85 per cent of the state median income; (6) tuition charged for full-time and part-time early education and child care services by age group; and (7) number of children enrolled by age group, family income range, race, ethnicity, country of origin and preferred language.”; and

in section 12, by inserting after the word “care”, in line 165, the second time it appears, and inserting in place thereof the following words:- “, race and ethnicity, country of origin and disability status of the child, primary language of the household, number of adults in the household and income range of the household”; and

in said section 12, by striking out, in lines 168  and 169, the words “type of care and other demographic characteristics” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- “age, type of care, race and ethnicity, country of origin and disability status of the child, primary language of the household, adults in the household and income range of the household; (D) the total cost of the subsidies provided; and (E) the average monthly number and percentage of utilized contracted slots by region”; and

by inserting after section 24 the following section:-

“SECTION 24A. The first annual publication of the data required pursuant to clause (v) of the second paragraph of section 2 of chapter 15D of the General Laws shall be made publicly available on the department’s website not later than June 30, 2023.”.