If payment to a child care provider is based on authorized hours of child care, the department shall do all of the following with respect to establishing and adjusting the number of authorized hours per child: 1.
(1)#
The department shall track a child’s hourly usage of child care authorizations over a 6-week period.
(2)#
If the child’s hourly usage tracked under subd. 1. is less than 60 percent of the authorized hours of child care, the department shall reduce the authorized hours of child care for the child to 90 percent of the maximum number of hours of child care that the child attended during that 6-week period.
(3)#
The department shall provide written notice of the proposed adjustment under subd. 2. to the child’s parent who is receiving the subsidy under this section, the child’s child care provider, and the applicable county department or agency.
(4)#
The department shall provide a grace period after the number of authorized hours are reduced under subd. 2., during which time the child care subsidy amount paid to the child care provider for the child shall remain the same as before the reduction in authorized hours was made.