Virginia's first state plan for child day care begins with 14 sections covering several aspects of child care. Section I reviews child care history and trends. Sections II, III, IV, and V argue, respectively, that child day care is important to government, business, families, and children. Elements of a comprehensive child day care delivery system are described in section VI. Sections VII, VIII, IX, and X argue that child day care should be affordable, available, accessible, and of high quality. Section XI provides a profile of child day care funding in Virginia. Elements of Virginia's master plan for child day care services, an action agenda for affordable child day care services in 1986, and a call for citizen action comprise sections XII, XIII, and XIV. Appended are an affordability survey by the Virginia Department for Children; sections of the Virginia Code affecting child day care; Department of Social Services policies relating to child day care; state initiatives related to child care; public comments on affordability, availability, accessibility, and quality of child day care in Virginia; and House Bill 1696, an act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section concerning child day care services. (RH)