The Office of Early Childhood shall establish and fund five regional accreditation projects, within available appropriations. The office shall select qualified applicants for each region through a request for proposal process. The office shall give priority to child day care facilities where at least twenty per cent of the children live with families earning less than seventy-five per cent of the state median income level.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17b-749e
( P.A. 97-259, S. 10, 41; P.A. 14-39, S. 36.)