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Relating to child care center staff requirements for providing flex care to children up to five years of age
Sponsored by the House Health and Human Services Committee
Topics:Families & human servicesChild care
Same legislation: HSB 8
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
- Done: House committeeFebruary 11, 2025
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Staff members at child care centers who are at least 18 years old would be allowed to provide flex care to children up to five years old without extra supervision. This type of care happens during nap times or short periods when a regular staff member is not in the room. These changes would affect employees and young children at child care facilities.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires the department of health and human services to amend its administrative rules to provide that employees of a child care center who are years of age or older may, without additional supervision, provide flex care to children up to five years of age. “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. “Flex care” means child care provided during designated nap hours and during brief periods when a child care center employee who is years of age or older is not present to provide supervision.
House subcommittee
Named January 15, 2025 (as HSB 8). On January 22, 2025 it recommended passage.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
1 written public comment to its subcommittee: January 22, 2025 (1) · on the Legislature’s site
Lobbying
1 for · 7 against · 10 undecided · Who →
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This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.
- HF 2305 Relating to child care center staff requirements for providing flex care to children up to…90th General Assembly · Passed House · same titlePassed a chamber
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