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Amend the bill by striking out all of sections 2 to 9 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §8301-A, sub-§1-A, ¶C, as amended by PL 2005, c. 530, §7, is further amended to read:
 
C. "Family child care provider" means a person who provides day care in that person's home on a regular basis, for consideration, for 35 to 12 children under 13 years of age who are not the children of the provider or who are not residing in the provider's home. If a provider is caring for children living in that provider's home and is caring for no more than 24 other children, the provider is not required to be certified as a family child care provider.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment is the minority report of the committee. It retains only those sections of the bill that allow a person who receives a child care subsidy to make up the difference between the amount of the subsidy and the total cost of the child care without losing the subsidy and allow a person to care for up to 4 children in the person's home without that person being required to become certified as a family child care provider.
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