(1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall prepare the following reports on child-care programs, and shall make them available upon request:
(a) State and federally mandated reports on the child-care funds administered by the Department for Community Based Services; and

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(b) Reports on the child-care subsidy programs, training, resource and referral, and similar activities upon request by the public, the Early Childhood Advisory Council, or the Child Care Advisory Council, to the extent resources are available within the cabinet and as permitted under the Kentucky Open Records Act, KRS § 61.870 to KRS § 61.884, and state and federal laws governing the protection of human research subjects.
(2) The cabinet shall include the number of dedicated child-care licensing surveyor positions and the ratio of surveyors to child-care facilities within its half-year block grant status reports.
(3) By November 1, 2017, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Early Childhood Advisory Council shall report on recommendations and plans for sustaining the quality-based graduated early care and education program after the depletion of federal Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grant funds.
Effective: June 29, 2023
History: Amended 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 25, sec. 9, effective June 29, 2023. — Amended
2017 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 54, effective June 29, 2017. — Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 4, effective June 24, 2015. — Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 57, sec. 5, effective June 25, 2013. — Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 199, effective June
20, 2005. — Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec. 23, effective July 14, 2000. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 163, effective July 15, 1998. — Created 1992
Ky. Acts ch. 57, sec. 9, effective July 14, 1992.