2026 Regular Session
Link to Bill History on Legacy Website (Click Here)Summary: Providing any employee working 20 hours or more per week in a licensed child care center or certified family child care (FCC) home is eligible for a child care subsidy, regardless of their household income
PDF: hb4067 sub1.pdf
DOCX: HB4067 INTR.docx
WEST virginia legislature
2026 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
House Bill 4067
By Delegates Crouse, Drennan, Young, Petitto, and Pinson
[Originating in the Committee on Health and Human Resources; Reported on February 17, 2026]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated §49-2-113a, relating to child-care subsidies.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2. STATE RESPONSIBILITIES FOR CHILDREN.
§49-2-113a. Child care support
(a) (1) A licensed child care program shall be paid subsidy payments based on monthly enrollment.
(2) The department shall review quarterly, and make ineligible for the subsidy a parent whose child does not attend a child care program on average of at least 8 days per month.
(3) For the purposes of this subsection, “day” means a child has attended a child care program for 4 hours, or an afterschool program for 2.5 hours.
(b) An employee who works a minimum of 32 hours per week providing child care services at a child care program or a family child care home within the state is eligible to receive a child care subsidy regardless of income.
(c) The department shall use a cost of care modeling tool to determine the amount the subsidy, and report to the Joint Committee on Health by December 1, 2026.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to update the administration of child care subsidy.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.