Voluntary designation process for faith-based program -- Conditions

(1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall establish a voluntary designation process through which any licensed or certified child-care provider may identify as a faith-based program. (2) The faith-based designation shall be displayed in all public-facing child-care databases maintained or overseen by the Commonwealth. The cabinet shall work to ensure that nonprofits, organizations, and local communities in Kentucky that maintain public-facing child-care databases are aware of this designation process. (3) Participation in the designation process shall be optional and open to all licensed and certified child-care providers. (4) The presence or absence of a faith-based designation shall not be used by the cabinet or any other state agency to confer preferential treatment, impose limitations, or otherwise discriminate for or against any child-care provider.