Reduces license fees and training requirements for child care facilities; allows a temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements; authorizes pilot programs to increase child care facility availability and capacity; establishes the Kansas Office of Early Childhood and the Director of Early Childhood; transfers administration of day care licensing, parent education programs, and the child care subsidy program to the state Office of Early Childhood; creates the Day Care Facilities and Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies Licensing Fee Fund and the Day Care Criminal Background and Fingerprinting Fund; defines youth development programs; allows school districts to contract with nonprofits and other entities to provide parent education programs to expectant parents and parents of infants and toddlers.

Establishes a property tax task force to study the property tax system and provide recommendations and suggestions to improve the law that would provide for a more efficient or cost effective system.