KRS 199.8996: Reports on child-care program activity.

(1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall prepare the following reports on

child-care programs, and shall make them available upon request:

(a) State and federally mandated reports on the child -care funds administered by

the Department for Community Based Services; and

(b) Reports on the child -care subsidy programs, training, resource and referral,

and similar activities upon request by the public, the Early Childhood

Advisory Council, or the Child Care Advisory Council, to the extent resources

are available within the cabinet and as permitted under the Kentucky Open

Records Act, KRS 61.870 to 61.884, and state and federal laws governing the

protection of human research subjects.

(2) The cabinet shall include the number of dedicated child -care licensi ng surveyor

positions and the ratio of surveyors to child -care facilities within its half -year block

grant status reports.

(3) By November 1, 2017, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Early

Childhood Advisory Council shall report on recommen dations and plans for

sustaining the quality -based graduated early care and education program after the

depletion of federal Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grant funds.