Relating to child care center staff requirements for providing flex care to children up to five years of age

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeFebruary 11, 2025
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Became HF 382 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 382 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

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.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

House subcommittee

Named January 15, 2025. On January 22, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Devon Wood REmail
• Rep. Tracy A. Ehlert DEmail
• Rep. Ryan Weldon REmail

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

Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title; check the text to be sure it’s the same idea.

Tried before

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 title
  Passed a chamber

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.