Establishing a child care workforce standards board.

 S-1072.1

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5062

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Senate Labor & Commerce (originally sponsored by Senators Stanford, C. Wilson, Saldaña, Trudeau, Conway, Dhingra, Shewmake, Frame, Nobles, Pedersen, Salomon, and Valdez)

READ FIRST TIME 02/03/25.

AN ACT Relating to establishing a child care workforce standards board; and adding a new chapter to Title 49 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The legislature finds and declares the following:

(a) High quality child care and early learning enable parents to go to work, keeping the economy going at all levels and returning six dollars in value for every one dollar invested. High quality early learning services help prepare children for success in school and in life. A high quality child care and early learning system depends on a thriving, healthy, and competitively compensated workforce. Current conditions for child care workers have resulted in lack of access, unaffordable prices, and poorer outcomes for children and families;