North Carolina legislation · 2025-2026 Session
North Carolina H412: Child Care Regulatory Reforms.
Status: Signed into law, July 1, 2025
What the bill says
An act to make child care regulatory reforms; and to make building code revisions.
From the enrolled text:
AN ACT TO MAKE CHILD CARE REGULATORY REFORMS; AND TO MAKE BUILDING CODE REVISIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: PART I. DECOUPLE RATED LICENSE AND SUBSIDIZED CHILD CARE SECTION 1.(a) The General Assembly recognizes the need to balance maintaining critical health, safety, and welfare standards for child care, as well as a well-established rating system used for informational purposes, with the need to move toward maximizing State funds for child care and increasing the supply of child care from State-funded sources. The General Assembly further recognizes the importance of weighing the need to decrease the cost of child care through deregulatory actions and at the same time maintain child care subsidy reimbursement rates. The purpose of this provision, in part, is to encourage the business community to partner with the State in achieving this goal. SECTION 1.(b) To that end, by May 1, 2026, the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (Division), shall develop a proposed plan to separate the quality rating improvement system (QRIS) from the requirements and payments for participation in the State-subsidized child care program using the market rate study required by Section 1(c) of this act and make recommendations on implementation of the plan while meeting the federal Child Care and Development Fund requirements including a quality …
Sponsors
- Arp, Dean (R, 69) · primary sponsor
- Lambeth, Donny (R, 75) · primary sponsor
- Paré, Erin (R, 37) · primary sponsor
- Rhyne, Heather H. (R, 97) · primary sponsor
- Brisson, William D. (R, 22)
- Johnson, Todd (R, 35)
- Loftis, Donnie (R, 109)
- McNeely, Jeffrey C. (R, 84)
- Strickland, Larry C. (R, 28)
- Ward, Bill (R, 5)
Latest actions
- : Ch. SL 2025-36
- : Signed by Gov. 7/1/2025
- : Pres. To Gov. 6/27/2025
- : Ratified
- : Ordered Enrolled
- : Conf Report Adopted
- : Conf Report Adopted
- : Added to Calendar
- : Withdrawn From Com
- : Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Votes
- Child Care Regulatory Reforms. Conference Report Motion 8 To Adopt (June 25, 2025): 46 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Child Care Regulatory Reforms. C RPT Adoption (June 24, 2025): 111 yea, 1 nay, passed
- Child Care Regulatory Reforms. M11 Not Concur (June 10, 2025): 111 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Child Care Regulatory Reforms. Second Reading (June 4, 2025): 45 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Child Care Regulatory Reforms. Amendment 1 (June 4, 2025): 44 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Child Care Regulatory Reforms. Second Reading (April 15, 2025): 81 yea, 31 nay, passed
Subjects: COUNCIL OF STATE, LIABILITY, RATIFIED, CHILD CARE COMN., DHHS, INSURANCE COMMISSIONER, INSURANCE, LIABILITY, INSURANCE
Common questions
- What is H412?
- H412 is a bill in the North Carolina Legislature (2025-2026 Session): Child Care Regulatory Reforms.
- What does H412 do?
- In its own words: An act to make child care regulatory reforms; and to make building code revisions.
- What is the status of H412?
- Signed into law as of July 1, 2025. Latest action: Ch. SL 2025-36 (July 1, 2025).
- Who sponsored H412?
- Arp, Dean (R, 69), with 9 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for H412?
- On the North Carolina Legislature website: https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H412
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