Resolve, To Encourage Access to Higher Education for Certain Child Care Providers
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1069
Committee: ,Health and Human Services
Sponsors: O'BRIEN, ALFOND, BERRY, BUTTERFIELD, MAGNAN, PEOPLES, PERRY, RANKIN, STUCKEY, WAGNER

Legislative Document 
No. 1069 
H.P.736 
House of Representatives, March 17,2009 
Resolve, To Encourage Access to Higher Education for Certain 
Child Care Providers 
Reference to the Committee on ,Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative O'BRIEN of Lincolnville. 
Cosponsored by Senator ALFOND of Cumberland and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: BERRY of Bowdoinham, BUTTERFIELD of Bangor, MAGNAN of 
Stockton Springs, PEOPLES of Westbrook, PERRY of Calais, RANKIN of Hiram, STUCKEY 
of POliland, WAGNER of Lewiston. 
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Sec. 1. Convene working group. Resolved: That the Maine Children's Growth 
Council, as established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chaptel' 621, shall convene 
a working group to review and make recommendations for administrative or legislative 
action, or both, concerning ways to create opportunities for higher education for licensed 
child care providers. The Depaltment of Health and Human Services and the Department 
of Education shall participate in the working group. The council shall invite 
representatives from public universities, community colleges and child care providers to 
participate in the working group; and be it further 
Sec. 2. Charge of working group. Resolved: That the working group shall 
consider ideas and make recommendations for creating a partnership between licensed 
child care providers and state institutions of higher learning that would allow child care 
providers to enroll in classes and degree programs at reduced tuition rates in exchange for 
r~serving a certain number of child care slots for the institutions' students and faculty, 
which would be paid for at a reduced rate subsidized by the State; and be it further 
Sec. 3. Report. Resolved: That the working group shall provide a report to the 
Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services with findings and 
recommendations, including any draft legislation m;cessary, no later than January 15, 
2010. The joint standing committee is authorized to submit a bill related to the subject of 
the report to the Second Regular Session of the 124th Legislature. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve directs the Maine Children's Growth Council to convene a working 
group to make recommendations for creating opportunities for higher education for 
licensed child care providers. The resolve requires the Department of Health and Human 
Services and the Department of Education to participate in the working group. The 
resolve requires the council to invite representatives from public universities, community 
colleges and child care providers to participate in the working group. It requires the 
working group to make recommendations for creating a partnership between licensed 
child care providers and state institutions of higher learning that would allow 'child care 
providers to enroll in classes and degree programs at reduced tuition rates in exchange for 
reserving a certain number of child care slots for the institutions' students and faculty, 
which would be paid for at a reduced rate subsidized by the State. It requires the working 
group to provide a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services 
with findings and recommendations, including any draft legislation necessary, no later 
than January 15, 2010 and authorizes the committee to submit a bill to the Second 
Regular Session of the 124th Legislature. 
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