A bill from Rep. Alice Buckley, D-Bozeman, that has bipartisan support and was heard in committee Tuesday aims to provide an estimated additional 1,000 children in Montana with Best Beginnings Scholarship eligibility to offset child care costs for low-income Montana families.
Under the scholarship program now, a single parent who earns $2,300 a month would pay a $320 copay. But under the bill, the same family would pay $161.