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HB 2344

AN ACT concerning the department of health and environment; relating to licensure of child care facilities; day care homes and child care centers; establishing license capacity and staff-to-child ratios; lowering license fees and training requirements; creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for a temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements; authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability and capacity; amending K.S.A. 65-503, 65-505 and 65-508 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 48-3406 and repealing the existing sections.

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House - Concurred with amendments in conference; - 04/06/2023

On roll call the vote was:

Yea - (77):

Anderson, Awerkamp, Barth, Bergkamp, Bergquist, Blew, Blex, Bloom, Bryce, Buehler, Butler, B. Carpenter, W. Carpenter, Clifford, Corbet, Croft, Delperdang, Dodson, Donohoe, Droge, Ellis, Eplee, Essex, Estes, Fairchild, Francis, Garber, Gardner, Goddard, Goetz, Hawkins, Hill, Hoffman, Hoheisel, Howe, Howell, Howerton, Humphries, Johnson, Kessler, Landwehr, Lewis, Mason, Maughan, Minnix, Moser, Murphy, Neelly, Owens, Patton, Penn, Pickert, Proctor, Rahjes, Resman, Rhiley, Robinson, Roth, Sanders, Schmoe, A. Smith, C. Smith, E. Smith, Sutton, Tarwater, Thomas, Thompson, Titus, Turk, Turner, Underhill, Waggoner, Wasinger, Waymaster, White, K. Williams, L. Williams,

Nay - (46):

Alcala, Amyx, Ballard, Borjon, Boyd, Carlin, Carmichael, Carr, Collins, Concannon, Curtis, Featherston, Haskins, Haswood, Helgerson, Highberger, Hougland, Houser, Hoye, Jacobs, Martinez, Melton, Meyer, D. Miller, S. Miller, V. Miller, Neighbor, Ohaebosim, Oropeza, Osman, Ousley, Poskin, Probst, S. Ruiz, Sawyer, Sawyer Clayton, Schlingensiepen, Schreiber, Seiwert, Stogsdill, Vaughn, Weigel, Winn, Woodard, Xu, Younger,

Present but not Voting - (0):

Absent and Not Voting - (2):

Poetter Parshall, L. Ruiz,

Not Voting - (0):