Newly released reports from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce are laying out the Commonwealth's childcare needs from an economic and workforce development approach.

Chamber leaders said the 37 recommendations they’re laying out won't fully solve Kentucky's childcare needs but will create a foundation.

“Looking ahead to future sessions, there will undoubtedly be more, but what this group is recommending is what we think are the most concrete steps that the legislature can take right now as we head into the 2026 session,” Charles Aull, KY Chamber’s VP of policy, told lawmakers on the Interim Joint Committee on Families and Children Wednesday.

Childcare was an issue discussed at length in the 2024 session without any real solution agreed to.

“After the Horizons Act, I didn't know where to

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