Evolution of the 2024 State Budget
May Revise Proposed Cuts: Read the full overview of May Revision cuts here. | Joint Budget Plan Changes: | Final Budget Act of 2024 Read the Budget Act of 2024 final summary here. | |
Child Care Slot Expansion | Indefinitely ‘pauses’ the 200,000 child care slot expansion, limiting the expansion to approximately 119k slots. | Rejects the indefinite pause and instead enacts a two-year pause, with trailer bill language specifying the plan to reach over 200,000 new subsidized slots by 2028. Also creates reversion accounting for all child care programs. | Codifies the 2021-22 Budget Year agreement to grow the state-subsidized child care system by over 200,000 new children served. Fulfillment of 200,000 slots delayed until 2028 with legislative intent to resume expansion in 2026-2027. |
CCTR Child Care Slots | Rescinds 27,000 slots for the General Child Development Program (CCTR), which were awarded to providers in Spring 2024. | Continues to fund the 11,000 CCTR slots already awarded in Spring 2024. | Fully funds all 11,000 awarded expansion slots from existing child care appropriations, beginning October 1, 2024. |
Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children (Bridge Program) | Cuts $34.8 million or 40% ongoing from the Bridge Program. Click here to read a letter the Network signed urging legislators to reject harmful cuts to the Bridge Program. | Rejects cuts and instead adopts budget language to retroactively revert unspent funds to offset General Fund costs. Total General Fund levels for the Bridge Program will remain $83.4 million ongoing. | Re-appropriates a total of $47 million in Emergency Child Care Bridge funds from 2023- 24 into 2024-25. Total General Fund levels for Emergency Child Care Bridge remain at $83.4 million ongoing. |