Tri-Share Child Care Program & CareShare

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

Evidence log

• 2026-05-07 — State management: funds; interest earned from money in the countercyclical budget and economic stabilization fund; deposit into the child care payment fund. Amends sec. 351 of 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1351). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0946’26: Companion bill (tie-barred to SB 946’26) would redirect interest earned on the countercyclical budget and economic stabilization (rainy day) fund into the child care payment fund, providing an ongoing revenue stream to the state’s child care subsidy fund that underwrites programs adjacent to Tri-Share/CareShare. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-05-20 — Children: child care; adjustments of reimbursements under the child development care program for inflation; require. Creates new act.: cross-connection with child-development-care-reimbursement: Both address the affordability and financing of child care in Michigan — CDC reimbursements set provider payment rates for subsidized care, while Tri-Share splits costs between employers, employees, and the state. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-05-20 — Children: child care; tri-share child care program; establish. Amends 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.111 - 722.128) by adding sec. 6b.: SB310 (passed chamber) would amend 1973 PA 116 by adding sec. 6b to statutorily establish the Tri-Share child care program, serving as a Senate companion/vehicle to the House Tri-Share bills (HB6034/HB6043). (novelty: 3)
• 2026-03-17 — Children: child care; provider advisory council; establish. Amends 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.111 - 722.128) by adding sec. 16a.: cross-connection with child-care-provider-advisory-council: Both concern Michigan’s child care system governance; a provider advisory council could inform implementation of programs like Tri-Share/CareShare. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-02 — Appropriations: supplemental; funding for Tri-Share; provide for. Creates appropriation act.: HB6035 (introduced) would create a supplemental appropriation act providing funding for the Tri-Share child care program, pairing dollars with the program framework established in HB6043/HB6034. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-02 — Children: child care; tri-share child care workplace benefit program and fund; establish. Amends 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.111 - 722.128) by adding sec. 6b.: HB6034 (introduced) would amend 1973 PA 116 by adding sec. 6b to establish a tri-share child care workplace benefit program and fund, a companion/parallel vehicle to HB6043’s tri-share and CareShare provisions. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-29 — Children: child care; tri-share child care program and fund and CareShare arrangement; establish. Amends 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.111 - 722.128) by adding secs. 6b & 6c.: HB6043 (enacted) amends 1973 PA 116 (the child care licensing act) by adding sections 6b and 6c to establish the Tri-Share Child Care Program, a dedicated fund, and the CareShare arrangement in Michigan statute. (novelty: 3)

Open questions

Related