HF 260 (LSB 1237HV (3) 89)

HOUSE FILE 260

BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES

(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 7)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the number of children receiving child care at any one time in a child care home.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 237A.1, subsections 6 and 7, Code 2021, are amended to read as follows:
   6.  “Child care home” means a person or program providing child care to five or fewer any of the following children at any one time that is not registered to provide child care under this chapter, as authorized under section 237A.3.:
   a.  Five or fewer children.
   b.  Six or fewer children, if at least one of the children is school-aged.
   7.  “Child development home” means a person or program registered under section 237A.3A that may provide child care to six seven or more children at any one time.
    Sec. 2.  Section 237A.3, subsection 1, Code 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A person or program providing child care to five children or fewer at any one time is a in a child care home provider and is not required to register under section 237A.3A as a child development home. However, the person or program may register as a child development home.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to the number of children receiving child care at any one time in a child care home.
   The bill allows a person or program providing child care in a child care home to care for five or fewer children or six or fewer children if at least one of the children is school-aged. Current law requires a child care home to register as a child development home if the child care home provides child care to more than five children at any one time.
   The bill makes conforming Code changes including a change to the definition of “child development home”.