Legislature passes quality child care bills
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Feb 27, 2007 Posted by Bill Luckett
The quality child care legislation, House Bills 95 and 96, are heading to Gov. Freudenthal's desk after the House on Tuesday concurred with Senate amendments to the legislation. The bills cleared third reading in the Senate on Monday. This story describes some of the details of the legislation. The main thing is that our state government is finally going to take some concrete steps to address one of the most pressing needs facing thousands of Wyoming families, the affordability and availability of quality child care. These bills and this program, well over a year in the making, have enjoyed the unanimous support of legislative Democrats and Gov. Freudenthal. A significant amount of opposition to the legislation has come from the extreme right, people who preach that a woman's place is in the home. The passage of these bills this week is a tribute to mainstream governing. Sadly, legislators cut a large share of the money out of the original legislation, so it will be up to future legislators to decide if they are going to invest the funds into a quality child care initiative that will get the job done for Wyoming's families.