HF 2056: Relating to child care center staff requirements for providing unsupervised child care to children up to five years of age

What it does

This bill requires the department of health and human services to amend its administrative rules to provide that employees and substitutes of a child care center who are years of age or older may, without additional supervision, provide child care to children up to years of age provided that at least two other persons who are years of age or older and are employed by the child care center to provide child care to children are present in the child care center. “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.

House subcommittee · named January 17, 2024

• Rep. Devon Wood (R) · devon.wood@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Austin Baeth (D) · austin.baeth@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Brian Best (R)

Lobbying · 2 for, 5 against

For: Americans For Prosperity; Easterseals Iowa

Against: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; Common Good Iowa; Iowa Community Action Association; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; United Way of Central Iowa

In plain words

1. January 17, 2024Filed in the House and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
2. January 17, 2024House subcommittee named: Wood, Baeth and Best
3. January 23, 2024Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. January 30, 2024Approved by the House committee
5. February 5, 2024Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 2305
6. February 19, 2024Withdrawn