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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 2268: Relating to child care center staff ratios, and including effective date provisions

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on May 24, 2022. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to child care center staff ratios. The bill directs the department of human services to amend its rules so that child care centers maintain a minimum child-to-staff ratio of child care worker for every children who are years of age and child care worker for every children who are years of age. The bill takes effect upon enactment.

Sponsors

Human Resources (companion To Hf 2131 By Committee on Human Resources) committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 6 for, 8 against

For: Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce; Easterseals Iowa; Iowa Alliance of YMCA's; Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Iowa Business Council; Opportunity Solutions Project

Against: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; Common Good Iowa; Iowa Alliance For Retired Americans; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Teamsters Local 238; UAW Region 4; United Professionals/UE; United Way of Central Iowa

In plain words

  1. February 14, 2022Filed in the Senate
  2. February 14, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
  3. February 21, 2022Passed the Senate, 32–18

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SF2268