Senate File 190 - Introduced
SENATE FILE
BY HATCH
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act requiring certain providers under the state child care
2 assistance program to be regulated by the department of human
3 services.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 237A.5, subsection 2, paragraph a,
1 2 subparagraph (1), subparagraph subdivisions (d) and (e), Code
1 3 2007, are amended to read as follows:
1 4 (d) The person has applied for or receives public funding
1 5 for providing child care under the state child care assistance
1 6 program pursuant to section 237A.13 or another program.
1 7 (e) The person will reside or resides in a child care home
1 8 that is not registered under this chapter but that receives
1 9 public funding for providing child care under the state child
1 10 care assistance program pursuant to section 237A.13 or another
1 11 program.
1 12 Sec. 2. Section 237A.13, subsections 2 and 3, Code 2007,
1 13 are amended to read as follows:
1 14 2. Services under the program may shall be provided in by
1 15 a licensed child care center, a child development home, the
1 16 home of or a relative of the child who is not a registered or
1 17 licensed provider under this chapter, the child's own home, a
1 18 child care home, or in a facility exempt from licensing or
1 19 registration under the exceptions to the term "child care" in
1 20 section 237A.1. For the purposes of this subsection,
1 21 "relative of the child" means an adult person other than the
1 22 child's parent, guardian, or custodian who is the child's
1 23 sibling, grandparent, aunt, or uncle.
1 24 3. The department shall set reimbursement rates as
1 25 authorized by appropriations enacted for payment of the
1 26 reimbursements. The department shall conduct a statewide
1 27 reimbursement rate survey to compile information on each
1 28 county and the survey shall be conducted at least every two
1 29 years. The department shall set rates in a manner so as to
1 30 provide incentives for an unregistered a provider who is not a
1 31 registered or licensed provider under this chapter to become
1 32 registered or licensed.
1 33 EXPLANATION
1 34 This bill requires certain providers under the state child
1 35 care assistance program to be regulated by the department of
2 1 human services.
2 2 The bill amends Code section 237A.13, relating to the
2 3 program, to require that a provider of services under the
2 4 program must be licensed or registered under Code chapter
2 5 237A, be a relative of the child, or the services must be
2 6 provided in a facility exempt from licensure or registration
2 7 by the department. The bill defines the term "relative of the
2 8 child" to mean an adult other than the child's parent,
2 9 guardian, or custodian who is the child's sibling,
2 10 grandparent, aunt, or uncle. The bill provides that a
2 11 facility exempt from licensure or registration by the
2 12 department means the facility is included in the list of
2 13 exceptions to the term "child care" in the Code chapter 237A
2 14 definitions. These exceptions include child care programs
2 15 administered by public or private schools, certain
2 16 church=related programs, and nationally accredited camps. The
2 17 bill also revises a requirement that the department set
2 18 reimbursement rates in a manner so that unregistered providers
2 19 have an incentive to become registered to also apply to
2 20 providers who are not licensed.
2 21 The bill also amends Code section 237A.5, relating to
2 22 criminal and abuse registry checks of child care providers, to
2 23 refer to the state child care assistance program in the record
2 24 check requirements applicable to persons who receive public
2 25 funding for providing child care.
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