A bill that would further impose governmental bureaucracy upon child care in Oregon is moving through the Oregon legislature.

HB 3073 has now passed through both the Oregon House and Senate chambers of the Oregon legislature and awaits being signed into law.

The bill was chiefly sponsored by Representative Karin Power (D-Portland), Representative Jack Zika (R-Redmond), Senator Kathleen Taylor (D-Portland), Representative Teresa Alonso Leon (D-Woodburn), Cedric Hayden (R-Roseburg), Bobby Levy (R-Echo), Courtney Neron (D-Wilsonville), Greg Smith (R-Heppner), Senator Kayse Jama (D-Portland), and Senator Tim Knopp (R-Bend).

The bill does a number of things to child care in Oregon, firstly, it will change the name of the Early Learning Division to Department of Early Learning and Care.

It will also establish the Department of Early Learning and Care as state agency that is separate from Department of Education and that functions under, and is coordinated by, the Early Learning Council. It will also revise the goals of statewide early learning system.

It prescribes expanded duties, functions and powers of Department of Early Learning and Care, including administration of Employment Related Day Care. It also modifies the requirements of employment related day-care.

Furthermore, it directs the Early Learning Division, Department of Education and the Department of Human Services to develop and implement plans for seamless transfer of relevant duties, functions and powers, and to report on plans to appropriate interim committees of Legislative Assembly.

It is yet another bill that has the emergency declaration attached, and is therefor effective on passage.


--Bruce Armstrong

Post Date: 2021-06-27 09:06:19

Last Update: 2021-06-27 21:28:26