Creates the Rhode Island Child Care Assistance Program that governs both family eligibility for the state's child care subsidy program and the rates paid to child care providers serving families receiving a subsidy.
Repeals the provision that requires new applicants for employment under this section to pay the expense for their background checks.
Increases the number of state child care licensing inspectors to meet the national recommended average of one inspector for every fifty (50) to sixty (60) child care providers.
Repeals the law requiring a parent to pay support and maintenance to agencies having custody of their child
Eliminates the sunset on the provision of finding for child care for eligible child care educators and child care staff.
Exempts any individual who is aging out of foster care from the payment of any fee associated with the issuance of a operator's license as well as driver's education class fees. The fee waiver is in effect until the individual reaches 27 years of age.
Exempts from taxation the real and tangible personal property of Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a Rhode Island domestic nonprofit corporation, located in Warwick, Rhode Island.
Directs the allocation of $3,000,000 from the 2025 state budget to provide cash benefits to participants in the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Adds department of corrections' correctional officers to the list of public safety employees that are entitled to their full salary if they are injured and become disabled as a result of performance of their job duties.
