House Bill 6001 (Chapter 725) of the 2025 Session, Item 125.10, directs the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS), to prepare and submit an annual report to the Governor and Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees. The specific language of the mandate is as follows:

L. The Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Social Services, shall prepare and submit an annual report to the Governor and Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees no later than December 15 each year. Such annual report shall include the following information:

1. All CCDF expenditures from the previous fiscal year, current grant balances and obligation and liquidation deadlines, as well as all anticipated spending for the current and two subsequent fiscal years. Identified spending should, at a minimum, be broken down by subsidies (mandated, discretionary and general fund), administrative costs, and quality efforts.

2. Certification from the Department that the maximum amount of federal funds were drawn down in the preceding fiscal year. Should the Department be unable to certify that maximum federal funds were drawn down, the Department shall identify strategies for Virginia to obtain the maximum amount of federal funds in the following fiscal year(s) as part of this plan.

3. The number of subsidies (mandate, discretionary and general fund) provided, by locality, the number of providers receiving subsidy funds, the overall number of child care providers, and the waitlist for services. This information should be provided the previous fiscal year, current fiscal year, and two subsequent fiscal years.

4. The recently completed CCDF annual report as required by the federal Office of Child Care.

5. For the Virginia Preschool Initiative and Mixed Delivery Programs, information detailing the use of state funds, including the number of calculated slots and funding allocated to each local program or provider, and the number of such slots that have been filled. Such information shall be aggregated in a manner to identify: (i) funding and the number of slots used to serve a student in a public school and non-public school setting; (ii) the number of three-year olds served; (iii) waitlist slots requested, offered, and provided; and (iv) the number of students served whose families are at or below 130 percent poverty, above 130 percent but at or below 200 percent of poverty, above 200 percent but at or below 350 percent of poverty, and above 350 percent of poverty.

6. For Virginia Preschool Initiative, a description of the programs' progress towards the target inclusion rate, such that 10 percent of all children enrolled in each program are children with disabilities, defined as those with an Individualized Education Plan. To compile this information, Virginia Preschool Initiative programs shall report the share of children with Individualized Education Plans in inclusive classrooms annually, and if the program's current inclusion rate falls below 10 percent, the program shall provide reasons a 10 percent inclusion rate was not achieved in the given school year and what actions the program could implement to increase its rate of inclusion in the next year.

7. Waitlist information for the CCSP, Mixed Delivery Program, and the Virginia Preschool Initiative, including an estimate of how many children on the waitlist could be served immediately if a slot became available based on eligibility and regional capacity.

This report summarizes these required data elements.