Amendment H-8118 to HF 2198
Relating to child care center minimum age requirements for employees and staff-to-children ratios, and including effective date provisions
Failed · March 2, 2022Vote: 40 yeas, 58 naysStrike everything: replaces the whole bill
Filed March 1, 2022 in the House by
What it changes
- By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: “Section
- Section 726.23, subsection 2, Code 2022, is amended by adding the following new paragraph: NEW PARAGRAPH . e. Fingerprints are voluntarily given with the written permission of the child and parent or guardian for the purpose of allowing the child to work as an employee or substitute at a child care center as defined in section 237A.1. Sec.
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES —— CHILD CARE PROVIDER MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT.
- The department of human services shall amend its administrative rules pursuant to chapter 17A to provide that employees and substitutes working at a child care center who are sixteen years of age or older may provide child care to ten or fewer school age children without additional supervision, provided that none of those children have disabilities or special needs.
- The department of human services shall require employees and substitutes working at a child care center to submit to background checks and fingerprinting requirements that are otherwise required for child care center employees eighteen years of age or older.”