BILL · 2025–26 SESSION
SB 6078: Child care provider supports
Providing prelicensing supports to individuals interested in becoming a licensed child care provider.
Summary
- Adds pre-licensing consultations as deemed necessary to the duties of the Director of Fire Protection.
- Allows the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), within existing resources, to provide pre-licensing supports to individuals interested in obtaining a child care license.
- Allows DCYF, within existing resources, to develop and publish a resource guide for individuals interested in obtaining a child care center license when they submit a permit application to a city or county.
- Requires cities and counties to inform permit applicants of DCYF's pre-licensing supports and resource guide.
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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedJan 13, 2026
- Out of committeeFeb 4, 2026
- Passed Senatestopped here
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Vandana Slatter (D-48)
- Introduced
- January 13, 2026 in the Senate
- Last action
- February 26, 2026
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to providing prelicensing supports to individuals interested in becoming a licensed child care provider;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Vandana Slatter (D-48)
5 co-sponsors (5 Democrats, 0 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
- Senate Rules "X" file.
- Placed on second reading by Rules Committee.
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- Minority; without recommendation.
- EDU - Majority; do pass.
- First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.
SB 6078 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 6078 (2023–24) Enforcement action moneys
- SB 6078 (2019–20) Fire juris. reimbursement
- SB 6078 (2017–18) Inmate apprenticeship prog.
- SB 6078 (2015–16) Manufacturing partnerships
- SB 6078 (2013–14) Native American heritage day
- SB 6078 (2011–12) Natural resources management
- SB 6078 (2009–10) Survivor's death benefits
- SB 6078 (2007–08) Hotel liquor licenses