Charge Colorado families one child care parent fee under section 3.124

changelog.d/co-ccap-parent-fee.fixed.md

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+The model now computes Colorado's Child Care Assistance Program parent fee under 8 CCR 1403-1 section 3.124. Each household pays one fee: 1% of gross income plus 14% of income above the poverty guideline Colorado sets each October, and $15 for each child in care after the first when income exceeds that guideline. The model drops the cents, charges 55% of the fee when every child in care receives part-time care, and takes 20% off at a provider in the top three quality levels. A household whose children have no recorded hours of care now pays the full-time fee, where the model used to charge nothing. From August 2028 the model applies the marginal rates of section 3.124(Q).

changelog.d/co-ccap-parent-fee.removed.md

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+Removed the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program parameters `parent_fee/base` and `parent_fee_rate_by_child_care_hours`. The household parent fee under section 3.124 replaces them.

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/co/ccap/is_quality_rating_discounted.yaml

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-description: The Colorado Child Care Assistance Program uses this discount rate based on the value of the maximum child care facility rating for an SPM unit compared to the outlined thresholds.
+description: Colorado multiplies the parent fee by this factor, by the highest quality rating among the household's child care providers, under the Child Care Assistance Program.
 metadata:
   type: single_amount
   threshold_unit: Child care facility quality rating
   amount_unit: /1
-  label: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program offers discount to quality rating child care facilities
+  label: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program parent fee factor by provider quality rating
   reference:
-    - title: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program Rules and Regulations - 3.111(H)
-      href: https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=11042&fileName=8%20CCR%201403-1#page=41
+    - title: 8 CCR 1403-1 Section 3.124(H), Parent fees (effective 2026-08-14)
+      href: https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=12658&fileName=8%20CCR%201403-1#page=81
+# Levels 3 to 5 are the top three levels of Colorado Shines, the Department's
+# quality rating system, and cut the fee by 20%.
 brackets:
   - threshold:
       2022-10-01: 0

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/co/ccap/parent_fee/add_on.yaml

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-description: Colorado multiplies the number of additional eligible children by this amount under the Child Care Assistance Program to calculate add on parent fee.  
+description: Colorado adds this amount to the parent fee for each child in care after the first when gross countable income exceeds the federal poverty guideline under the Child Care Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2021-07-01: 15
+  # Section 3.124(P), which holds this fee, runs through July 31, 2028; the
+  # section 3.124(Q) formula that follows has no fee for additional children.
+  2028-08-01: 0
 metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
   period: month
+  label: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program parent fee for each additional child
   reference:
-    - title: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program Rules and Regulations - 3.111(P)
-      href: https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=11042&fileName=8%20CCR%201403-1#page=43
-  label: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program parent fee add on rate
-  unit: currency-USD
-values:
-  2022-10-01: 15
+    - title: "8 CCR 1403-1 Section 3.124(P) and (Q), Parent fees (effective 2026-08-14) #page 83-84"
+      href: https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=12658&fileName=8%20CCR%201403-1#page=83

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/co/ccap/parent_fee/income_rate.yaml

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+description: Colorado charges this share of gross countable income as part of the parent fee under the Child Care Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2021-07-01: 0.01
+  # Section 3.124(Q) replaces this flat share with marginal rates alone.
+  2028-08-01: 0
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  label: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program parent fee rate on gross income
+  reference:
+    - title: "8 CCR 1403-1 Section 3.124(P) and (Q), Parent fees (effective 2026-08-14) #page 83-84"
+      href: https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=12658&fileName=8%20CCR%201403-1#page=83

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/co/ccap/parent_fee/marginal_rate.yaml

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+description: Colorado charges these marginal rates on gross countable income, by income as a multiple of the federal poverty guideline, as part of the parent fee under the Child Care Assistance Program.
+metadata:
+  type: marginal_rate
+  threshold_unit: /1
+  rate_unit: /1
+  label: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program parent fee marginal rates
+  reference:
+    - title: "8 CCR 1403-1 Section 3.124(P) and (Q), Parent fees (effective 2026-08-14) #page 83-84"
+      href: https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=12658&fileName=8%20CCR%201403-1#page=83
+brackets:
+  - threshold:
+      2021-07-01: 0
+    rate:
+      2021-07-01: 0
+      2028-08-01: 0.01
+  - threshold:
+      2021-07-01: 1
+    rate:
+      2021-07-01: 0.14
+      2028-08-01: 0.03
+  - threshold:
+      2021-07-01: 1.3
+    rate:
+      2021-07-01: 0.14
+      2028-08-01: 0.05
+  - threshold:
+      2021-07-01: 1.6
+    rate:
+      2021-07-01: 0.14
+      2028-08-01: 0.07

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/co/ccap/parent_fee/part_time/full_time_equivalent_units.yaml

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+description: Colorado counts a day of care as this many full-time equivalent units, by the hours of care that day, under the Child Care Assistance Program.
+metadata:
+  type: single_amount
+  threshold_unit: hour
+  amount_unit: /1
+  label: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program full-time equivalent units per day of care
+  reference:
+    - title: "8 CCR 1403-1 Sections 3.103(ZZ) and 3.130(C) (effective 2026-08-14) #page 10,119"
+      href: https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=12658&fileName=8%20CCR%201403-1#page=10
+# Each band covers days of more than its threshold, up to the next threshold:
+# a part-time unit (up to 5 hours) counts 0.55 of a full-time unit, a
+# full-time/part-time day (more than 12 hours, up to 17) counts 1.55, and a
+# full-time/full-time day counts 2.
+brackets:
+  - threshold:
+      2022-10-01: 0
+    amount:
+      2022-10-01: 0.55
+  - threshold:
+      2022-10-01: 5
+    amount:
+      2022-10-01: 1
+  - threshold:
+      2022-10-01: 12
+    amount:
+      2022-10-01: 1.55
+  - threshold:
+      2022-10-01: 17
+    amount:
+      2022-10-01: 2

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/co/ccap/parent_fee/part_time/rate.yaml

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+description: Colorado charges this share of the parent fee when every child in care receives part-time care under the Child Care Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2022-10-01: 0.55
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  label: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program part-time parent fee rate
+  reference:
+    - title: 8 CCR 1403-1 Section 3.124(U), Parent fees (effective 2026-08-14)
+      href: https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=12658&fileName=8%20CCR%201403-1#page=85

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/co/ccap/parent_fee/part_time/unit_threshold.yaml

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+description: Colorado treats a child's care as part time for the parent fee when it averages fewer than this many full-time equivalent units a month under the Child Care Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2022-10-01: 13
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: month
+  label: Colorado Child Care Assistance Program part-time care unit threshold
+  reference:
+    - title: "8 CCR 1403-1 Sections 3.103(ZZ) and 3.124(U) (effective 2026-08-14) #page 10,85"
+      href: https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=12658&fileName=8%20CCR%201403-1#page=10

policyengine_us/tests/policy/baseline/gov/states/co/ccap/co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee.yaml

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-- name: 2023 one eligible child for cccap, gross income is less than the family poverty guideline.
-  period: 2023
+# 8 CCR 1403-1 3.124(P)(3), PDF page 84 of ruleVersionId 12658: $15 for each
+# child in care after the first when income exceeds the guideline. Section
+# 3.124(P) runs through July 31, 2028, and (Q) has no such fee.
+- name: Case 1, three children in care above the guideline.
+  period: 2026-01
   input:
-    co_ccap_eligible_children: 1
-    co_ccap_countable_income: 60_000
-    spm_unit_fpg: 120_000
+    state_code:
+      2026: CO
+    co_ccap_countable_income: 3_000
+    co_ccap_fpg: 2_000
+    co_ccap_children_in_care: 3
   output:
-    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 
-      2023-01: 0
+    # (3 - 1) * 15 = 30
+    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 30
 
-- name: 2023 one eligible child for cccap, gross income is more than the family poverty guideline.
-  period: 2023
+- name: Case 2, one child in care above the guideline.
+  period: 2026-01
   input:
-    co_ccap_eligible_children: 1
-    co_ccap_countable_income: 80_000
-    spm_unit_fpg: 40_000
+    state_code:
+      2026: CO
+    co_ccap_countable_income: 3_000
+    co_ccap_fpg: 2_000
+    co_ccap_children_in_care: 1
   output:
-    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 
-      2023-01: 0
+    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 0
 
-- name: 2023 two eligible children for cccap, gross income is less than the family poverty guideline.
-  period: 2023
+- name: Case 3, income at the guideline.
+  period: 2026-01
   input:
-    co_ccap_eligible_children: 2
-    co_ccap_countable_income: 60_000
-    spm_unit_fpg: 120_000
+    state_code:
+      2026: CO
+    co_ccap_countable_income: 2_000
+    co_ccap_fpg: 2_000
+    co_ccap_children_in_care: 3
   output:
-    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 
-      2023-01: 0
+    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 0
 
-- name: 2023 two eligible children for cccap, gross income is less than the family poverty guideline.
-  period: 2023
+- name: Case 4, no child in care.
+  period: 2026-01
   input:
-    co_ccap_eligible_children: 2
-    co_ccap_countable_income: 80_000
-    spm_unit_fpg: 40_000
+    state_code:
+      2026: CO
+    co_ccap_countable_income: 3_000
+    co_ccap_fpg: 2_000
+    co_ccap_children_in_care: 0
   output:
-    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 
-      2023-01: 15
+    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 0
 
-- name: 2022 one eligible child for cccap, gross income is less than the family poverty guideline.
-  period: 2022
+- name: Case 5, July 2028 still charges the fee.
+  period: 2028-07
   input:
-    co_ccap_eligible_children: 1
-    co_ccap_countable_income: 60_000
-    spm_unit_fpg: 120_000
+    state_code:
+      2028: CO
+    co_ccap_countable_income: 3_000
+    co_ccap_fpg: 2_000
+    co_ccap_children_in_care: 3
   output:
-    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 
-      2022-12: 0
+    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 30
 
-- name: 2022 one eligible child for cccap, gross income is more than the family poverty guideline.
-  period: 2022
+- name: Case 6, from August 2028 section 3.124(Q) has no fee for additional children.
+  period: 2028-08
   input:
-    co_ccap_eligible_children: 1
-    co_ccap_countable_income: 80_000
-    spm_unit_fpg: 40_000
+    state_code:
+      2028: CO
+    co_ccap_countable_income: 3_000
+    co_ccap_fpg: 2_000
+    co_ccap_children_in_care: 3
   output:
-    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 
-      2022-12: 0
-
-- name: 2022 two eligible children for cccap, gross income is less than the family poverty guideline.
-  period: 2022
-  input:
-    co_ccap_eligible_children: 2
-    co_ccap_countable_income: 60_000
-    spm_unit_fpg: 120_000
-  output:
-    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 
-      2022-12: 0
-
-- name: 2022 two eligible children for cccap, gross income is less than the family poverty guideline.
-  period: 2022
-  input:
-    co_ccap_eligible_children: 2
-    co_ccap_countable_income: 80_000
-    spm_unit_fpg: 40_000
-  output:
-    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 
-      2022-12: 15
+    co_ccap_add_on_parent_fee: 0