Access to Health Insurance for Child Care Professionals - Outreach

Added requirement for the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to conduct a survey assessing current levels of health care access across the child care community, with emphasis on providers accepting child care scholarship vouchers.

Modified outreach requirements to include flyers, webinars, in-person events, and other materials specifically targeted to the child care provider community.

Removed provisions related to satellite organization enrollment, premium payments, and administration costs for qualifying nonprofit organizations.

Changed the qualifying nonprofit organization definition to require that child care providers receiving government funds must cover more than two-thirds of operating expenses, up from one-third for health department funds.

Modified the definition of 'Prekindergarten provider hub' to reference the Education Article instead of the Insurance Article.

Added reference to HB 859 in the committee report section and changed the bill title from 'First' to 'Third' reading.