HF 2198: Relating to child care center minimum age requirements for employees and staff-to-children ratios, and including effective date provisions

What it does

This bill relates to minimum age requirements for employees and substitutes working at a child care center. The bill requires the department of human services to amend its administrative rules to provide that persons age or older employed or substituting at a child care center may provide child care to school age children without supervision. “Child care” means the care, supervision, and guidance of a child by a person other than the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian for periods of less than hours per day per child on a regular basis, with certain exceptions. “Child care center” means a facility providing child care or preschool services for seven or more children, except when the facility is registered as a child development home.

Senate subcommittee · named March 8, 2022

• Sen. Craig Johnson (R) · craig.johnson@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Pam Jochum (D)
• Sen. David D. Rowley (R) · david.rowley@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 3 for, 4 against

For: CHILDSERVE; Easterseals Iowa; Iowa Alliance of YMCA's

Against: Common Good Iowa; Iowa Annual Conference of United Methodist Church; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Save the Children Action Network

In plain words

1. February 1, 2022Filed in the House
2. March 2, 2022Passed the House, 55–43
3. March 3, 2022Arrived in the Senate
4. March 8, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Johnson, Jochum and Rowley
5. March 9, 2022Subcommittee recommended passing it
6. March 16, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
7. April 18, 2022Passed the Senate, 30–18
8. April 26, 2022Passed the House, 52–42
9. June 1, 2022Sent to the Governor
10. June 16, 2022Signed into law