SB 147 and SB 2 / Chamber Supports Advancing the Chamber’s priority on increasing childcare accessibility and affordability this session, we testified in support of Senate Bill 147 in the Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee last week. As proposed, the bill would exempt for-profit childcare providers from property taxes (non-profit, school and church-based childcare providers are already exempt) [...]
(INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce is showing the business community’s alignment with legislative leaders and Governor Holcomb on two key outcomes this legislative session that could have a significant positive impact on the future and current workforce. Jason Bearce, the Indiana Chamber’s vice president of education and workforce development, testified today on Senate bills pivotal in the [...]
(INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce reacts to Governor Holcomb’s remarks in his final State of the State address this evening. Indiana Chamber President and CEO Vanessa Green Sinders: “The Indiana Chamber couldn’t be more excited about and in agreement with several of the themes that emerged from the Governor’s remarks: encouraging collaboration from all sectors, embracing change [...]
(INDIANAPOLIS) — The Indiana Chamber of Commerce says today’s announcement from the Governor and Family and Social Services Administration on grant awards for employer-sponsored childcare is a welcome boost. From Jason Bearce, Indiana Chamber vice president of education and workforce development: “A lack of quality and affordable childcare is what Hoosier employers have consistently told us is now their [...]
Hoosier employers can still apply to receive assistance from the Employer-Sponsored Childcare Fund, part of Gov. Eric Holcomb’s 2023 Next Level Agenda. The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration’s Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning is managing the effort. The $25 million program, a partnership with the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, uses a portion of the state’s remaining federal [...]
In the lead-up to the upcoming legislative session, the Chamber has been leaning in hard on advocacy aimed at increasing childcare access and affordability in alignment with state workforce needs. Employers across Indiana today consistently cite childcare and housing as their top external barriers to attracting and retaining employees, and there’s a growing consensus that these challenges rank alongside [...]
The Indiana Chamber led a broad-based coalition of advocates urging the Indiana General Assembly to accelerate efforts to reform the state’s childcare system during nearly five hours of testimony at the August meeting of the Interim Study Committee on Public Health, Behavioral Health and Human Services. Erin Emerson, president/CEO of the Perry County Development Corporation (an Indiana Chamber member) [...]
For the past two legislative sessions, improving childcare access and affordability has been a top policy priority for the Indiana Chamber. Childcare has emerged as not only a key education and workforce issue, but arguably a critical state infrastructure challenge as well with employers consistently citing childcare, housing and transportation as their top external workforce barriers. In partnership with [...]
The Senate Family and Children Services House Education Committee members unanimously approved Senate Bill 375, authored by Sen. Linda Rogers (R-Granger), on a 7-0 vote last week. It’s one of several measures championed by the Indiana Chamber this session aimed at addressing the statewide shortage of high-quality early learning and childcare opportunities that have placed an added strain on [...]
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