HF 2209 (LSB 5752YH (4) 83)

HOUSE FILE 2209

BY  PETTENGILL

A BILL FOR

An Act prohibiting the departments of human services and public health from requiring or urging child care providers to become members of a professional organization representing such providers or urging child care home providers to become registered or licensed.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 237A.6, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   237A.6  Consultative services —— requirement of professional organization membership and urging registration or licensure prohibited.
   1.  The department shall, and the director of public health may provide consultative services to a person applying for a license or registration, or licensed or registered by the administrator under this chapter.
   2.  The department of human services and the department of public health, or an employee or contractor of either department, shall not formally or informally require or urge a child care provider or the staff of such a provider to become a member of a professional organization representing child care providers.
   3.  If a person is providing child care as a child care home provider, the department of human services and the department of public health, or an employee or contractor of either department, shall not urge the person or the person’s staff to become a registered or licensed child care provider.
EXPLANATION
   This bill prohibits the departments of human services and public health from formally or informally requiring or urging child care providers to become members of a professional organization representing such providers. The bill also prohibits the two departments from urging unregistered child care home providers to become registered or licensed. Code section 237A.6, relating to the consultative services provided by the two departments to child care providers, is amended to include the prohibitions.