Encourage your state legislators to vote for Senate Bill 232 and House Bill 342.
Act now to make a difference for Ohio's children.

Here are the tools you will need:

• sample support letters (for a senator and for a representative) to personalize and send to your elected legislators.
• list of key legislators to contact on House Health Committee and Senate Health, Human Services and Aging Committee.
• sample thank you letter to send to legislators who are already supporting these bills.
• a legislator locator for identifying your state senator and representative and their contact information can be found at the bottom left of our our home page.
• a press release explaining the proposed legislation and why it is needed.
• a Q&A about these bills
  
• full text of Senate Bill 232 and House Bill 342 as they were originally introduced.
• tips for a legislative visit and a visit report form
• your advocacy checklist.

Helpful background information:

• Leaving Children to Chance: NACCRRA’s Ranking of State Standards and Oversight of Small Family Child Care Homes (Executive Summary).
• NACCRRA’s Threshold of Licensed Family Child Care (June 2007).
• Family Child Care Home Businesses: A Case Statement for the Licensing of Businesses that Affect our Children’s Well Being,  prepared by the Ohio Family Child Care Workgroup.

Please e-mail a link to this page to all those you think would be willing to help support this important legislation.

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