House committee substitute to the 1st edition removes the content of the previous edition and replaces it with the following.

Section 1

Specifies that any nonrecurring appropriation that will revert to the fund from which the appropriation was made on June 30, 2024, will not revert at the end of 2023-24 and will instead remain available for expenditure until September 30, 2024.

Section 2

Reduces State Fiscal Recovery Funds appropriated in SL 2021-180 to the Department of Health and Human Services for "Premium Pay Bonuses" by $11,993,088 and requires that those funds be returned to the State Fiscal Recovery Fund (SFRF) as soon as practicable but no later than 15 business days after this section becomes law. Requires that the Office of State Budget and Management allocate $8,251,078 from the SFRF to the Department of Health and Human Services for Child Care Stabilization Grants.

Section 3

Amends Section 9L.2(b) of SL 2021-180, as amended, by amending the allocation of funds appropriated in the act from federal Child Care and Development Block Grant funds received pursuant to ARPA to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education, by (1) removing the cap of $215 million on funds used to reduce the waitlist for children eligible for subsidized child care who are in foster care and after addressing that waitlist, working toward reducing the waitlist for children eligible for subsidized child care and (2) no longer requiring that at least $50 million be used to modernize and improve early childhood technology infrastructure (maintains the cap of $59 million on these uses).

Makes conforming changes to the act’s titles.