Tri-Share Child Care Program & Fund

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 budget-mechanics 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, creating a recurring revenue stream potentially usable for child care cost-sharing programs. (novelty: 2) (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 state subsidies for child care affordability, with CDC reimbursements and the Tri-Share program forming parallel affordability mechanisms. (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.: SB 310 (Senate companion) passed a chamber; amends 1973 PA 116 by adding sec. 6b to statutorily establish the Tri-Share child care program, paralleling the House vehicles (HB6043/HB6034). (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 child care policy infrastructure — a licensing-based provider advisory body and a state cost-sharing program — potentially informing overlapping provider and workforce issues. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-06-02 — Appropriations: supplemental; funding for Tri-Share; provide for. Creates appropriation act.: HB6035 introduced as a supplemental appropriation act to provide funding for the Tri-Share child care program (companion funding vehicle to the enabling legislation). (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 (companion/parallel bill) introduced to amend 1973 PA 116 by adding sec. 6b establishing a tri-share child care workplace benefit program and fund; framed as a workplace benefit variant of the tri-share cost-sharing concept. (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 ordered enrolled (enacted stage); adds secs. 6b & 6c to 1973 PA 116 establishing the tri-share child care program, dedicated fund, and CareShare arrangement splitting costs among employer, employee, and state. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-03 — Children: child care; tri-share child care program and fund; establish. Amends 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.111 - 722.128) by adding secs. 6b & 6c.: HB6043 (103rd Legislature) passed a chamber; amends 1973 PA 116 by adding secs. 6b & 6c to establish a tri-share child care program and dedicated fund that splits child care costs among employers, employees, and the state. (novelty: 3)

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