Iowa SF 445: A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations and reducing appropriations, and including effective date provisions.

Status: Rereferred to Health and Human Services. (as of 2025-05-15)

State: Iowa · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: SF 445

Subjects: child assistance, child care, child development coordinating council, curricula, early childhood iowa initiative, education, education department, grants, health and human services department, partnerships, pilot programs, preschools, school aid law, school budgets, school districts, schools, statewide preschool program, students

Sponsors: COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

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