Arkansas
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HB 1545: Allows the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education of the Department of Human Services to independently promulgate rules.
HB 1685: Clarifies the criminal background checks required for an applicant or employee of a child care facility or a church-exempt child care facility.
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California
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AB 258: Authorizes the county of Fresno to develop an individualized county child care subsidy plan. Requires the Early Education and Support Division of the state Department of Education to review and approve or disapprove the plan. Requires the county to annually prepare and submit a report.
AB 273: Adds for the purposes of eligibility under the Child Care and Development Services Act parents that are engaged in an educational program for English as a second language or to attain a high school diploma or general educational development certificate.
AB 300: Authorizes the counties of Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz to develop individualized county child care subsidy plans. Requires the Early Education and Support Division of the state Department of Education to review and approve or disapprove the plans and any subsequent modifications to the plans.
AB 377: Authorized the counties of San Diego and Solano to develop and implement individualized county child care subsidy plans. Requires the plans to be submitted by the counties to their local planning council and their respective county board of supervisors for approval. Requires the Early Education and Support Division of the state Department of Education to review and approve or disapprove the plans and any subsequent modifications to the plans and would require the state Department of Social Services to only review the plans. Requires the counties to annually prepare and submit a report.
AB 435: Authorizes the counties of Contra Costa, Marin and Sonoma to develop individualized county child care subsidy plans. Requires the plans to be submitted by the counties to their local planning council and their respective county board of supervisors for approval. Requires the Early Education and Support Division of the state Department of Education to review and approve or disapprove the plans and any subsequent modifications to the plans and requires the state Department of Social Services to review certain plans. Requires the counties to annually prepare and submit a report that contains specified information relating to the success of the counties’ plans. Makes legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for these counties.
AB 603: Requires child care providers authorized to provide services to submit to the alternative payment program a monthly attendance record for each child who received services. Requires alternative payment programs to develop an electronic time sheet process for the monthly attendance record or invoices. Requires alternative payment programs to offer the electronic time sheet process to child care providers.
AB 752: Prohibits a contracting agency from expelling or unenrolling a child because of a child's behavior unless they have explored and documented all possible steps to maintain the child's safe participation. Requires the state Department of Education to develop criteria to ensure children are not expelled or unenrolled due to challenging behaviors. Prohibits penalizing a child care facility for failure to expel, unenroll, or provide special supervision.
AB 1106: Requires, for purposes of determining eligibility that the income of a person on state or federal active duty, active duty for special work, or Active Guard and Reserve duty in the military not include the amount of the basic allowance for housing if the allowance is equal to the lowest rate of the allowance for military housing area in which the person resides.
SB 401: Requires adequate space within an office building to meet the child care needs of state employees. Requires that the indoor activity space and outdoor activity space comply with requirements in specified regulations.
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Colorado
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HB 1135: Concerns the portability of employment background checks for a child care worker who works for the same common ownership entity.
HB 1355: Expands allowable uses of such money to the provision of child care improvement activities as identified in the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014.
SB 110: Increases the accessibility of legal child care by expanding the circumstances under which an individual can care for children from multiple families for less than 24 hours without obtaining a child care license.
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Connecticut
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SB 1014: Makes various changes to education statues, including extending the school security infrastructure grant program to FY 18 and specifying grants are available to private child care centers or preschools that have received threats.
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Georgia
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HB 250: Exempts an employee of an early care and education program who has received a satisfactory fingerprint records check determination within the previous 24 months from submitting applications for an additional background check for purposes of providing care to children placed in a foster home.
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Hawaii
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HB 674: Requires all child care providers subject to regulation by the state to obtain and maintain liability insurance as a condition of licensure, temporary permission, or registration.
SB 149: Repeals the requirement that all applicants for procurement contracts for health and human services possess all licenses necessary to conduct the subject business, repeals the requirement that all contracts include only costs, fees, and taxes reflected on the face of the proposal.
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Iowa
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HB 534: Exempts from child care licensing regulations an instructional program for children who are at least three years of age and eligible for special education that is administered by a school system.
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Illinois
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HB 2388: Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to establish and maintain a searchable web database that provides certain information on each day care home, group day care home, and day care center.
HB 3213: Adds families that are not recipients of benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and that need child care assistance to participate in education and training activities to the list of family categories that are covered under the child care assistance program, deletes a provision requiring the department of human services to allocate a certain dollar amount annually for a test program for families that are income-eligible for child care.
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Indiana
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HB 1091: Makes it a Level 6 felony to view a pictorial representation that depicts sexual conduct by a child. Requires a person convicted of disseminating material harmful to minors to register as a sex offender if the person is a child care worker and distributes the material to a child under the person's care or who attends a school where the person is employed.
SB 447: Requires child abuse and neglect training for school employees. Allows the department of child services to share certain costs. Prohibits the department from granting waivers to an applicant for a child care institution, foster family home, group home, or child placing agency license if the applicant has been convicted of certain felonies, and various other matters.
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Kansas
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HB 2304: Requires child care facilities ensure children under 12 months of age are placed to sleep only on a surface or in an area approved for use by the state and requires the sleep surface is free from soft or loose bedding, including, but not limited to, blankets, bumpers and pillows.
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Kentucky
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HB 38: Prohibits sex offender registrants from being on the grounds of a public school, publicly owned playground, preschool or licensed day care facility without advance written permission of the local legislative body with jurisdiction over the playground.
HB 374: Requires that all employers of applicants for initial employment in positions involving supervisory or disciplinary power over minors, request conviction information from the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet or the Administrative Office of the Courts.
SB 236: Permits a parent or legal guardian to request a background check of the child abuse and neglect registry records when employing a child care provider for his or her minor child. Requires the cabinet to make the request form available on its website, creates language to require the signature of the individual child care provider consenting to a background check, requires that school superintendents conduct a background check of child abuse and neglect records.
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Louisiana
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HB 557: Authorizes the Department of Education to request criminal background checks relative to early learning centers, school employees, registered family child care providers and in-home providers.
SB 255: Requires each licensed early learning center to provide a written copy of all health-related policies established by the center to the parent or guardian of each child attending or enrolled in the early learning center.
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Maryland
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HB 418: Requires the Department of Education to conduct a certain analysis regarding the child care subsidy program at specified intervals, consulting with certain entities prior to analysis and reporting to the General Assembly.
HB 456: Requires the state’s board of education to develop specified regulations relating to the establishment of a specified dispute resolution process to be used in specified disputes related to specified family child care homes and child care centers, provides for the content of the regulations, requires a specified dispute resolution process to be developed by a specified workgroup composed of specified members.
SB 293: Requires the Department of Education to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before a certain date on methodologies to set child care subsidy reimbursement rates in the child care subsidy program, requires the report to contain certain information including alternative methodologies, benefits and constraints, and feedback.
SB 294: Requires the Department of Education to conduct a specified analysis regarding the child care subsidy program, requiring the department to consult with specified entities before conducting a specified analysis, and requiring the department to report to specified committees of the General Assembly.
SB 341: Alters the definition of "school vehicle" to include specified vehicles that meet or comply with specified standards and requirements, were originally titled and used to transport children, students, and teachers in another state, comply with the regulations on transporting children enrolled in the federally-funded Head Start Program, and are used only for transporting children to and from a Head Start program.
SB 943: Requires the state’s department of education to develop a dispute resolution process to be used by families of children with disabilities and child care providers for resolving complaints of discrimination based on a child's disability.
SB 1191: Authorizes the Maryland Center for School Safety to make grants for specified security-related projects to schools and child care centers determined to be at risk of certain hate crimes or attacks, authorizes specified schools or child care centers to apply to the center for a specified state grant, establishes the terms and conditions for the use of specified state grant funds by specified recipients, provides that the funding for certain grants shall be as provided by the governor in the state budget.
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North Dakota
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SB 2060: Requires parental notification of early childhood services investigations.
SB 2090: With respect to early childhood services, expands the scope of individuals that may require criminal history record checks; amends the definition of "staff member"; clarifies the timeline, protocol, and fees for renewal of a license or self-declaration; and revises licensure and self-declaration requirements relating to safety training to include infant and pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator.
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Nebraska
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LB 335: Changes provisions of the child care market rate survey and the rates of reimbursement market survey.
LB 590: Makes changes to the state building code, bringing in-home daycares and in-home care occupancy classifications into alignment with current childcare regulations.
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HB 367: Requires, upon the request of another state's lead agency, the Department of Health and Human Services to check the name of an out-of-state child care provider, staff member, or prospective staff member against New Hampshire's registry of founded reports of abuse and neglect. |
New Jersey
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SB 651: Requires family day care providers and certain household members to undergo criminal history record background checks.
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Nevada
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AB 346: Requires the operator of a small child care establishment to register with the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of the Department of Health and Human Services, requires certain persons who are employed at or otherwise present at a small child care establishment to undergo a criminal background check, authorizes the collection of the costs relating to an investigation of a child care facility or small child care establishment.
SB 46: Revises provisions governing background checks of operators, employees and certain adult residents of a child care facility.
SB 189: Revises the amount and type of training that an employee of a child care facility is required to complete, sets forth certain requirements relating to services performed by an independent contractor at a child care facility, requires the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a system of rating child care facilities.
SB 326: Requires a child care facility to grant priority in admission to children of a parent serving or who has served in the Armed Forces of the United States.
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Oklahoma
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HB 1491: Increases number of hours of care, from 15 to 21 for child care facility that is license exempt.
HB 1968: Authorizes a buyer of a child care facility to operate the facility pursuant to certain criteria rating, provides for codification, provides an effective date.
SB 717: Requires the Department of Human Services to develop rules to establish and maintain the Child Care Restricted Registry, accessible to the public through an online database, to address: a procedure for recording individuals on the restricted registry, a procedure to provide notice and an opportunity for review prior to recording an individual on the restricted registry, disclosure requirements for information on the restricted registry, and a procedure to prohibit licensure, ownership, employment, unsupervised access to children or residence in any facility providing care to children or vulnerable adults.
SB 723: Modifies the types of records searches that must be conducted prior to the Department of Health Services issuing a license to an individual to operate a child care facility and prior to a facility hiring an employee.
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Oregon
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HB 2259: Requires the Office of Child Care complete criminal records checks and child abuse and neglect records check in accordance with rules adopted by Early Learning Council upon receipt of application for enrollment in central background registry, prohibits enrollment of subject individual who has disqualifying condition, removes requirement that enrollment in central background registry expires two years from date of enrollment.
HB 2260: Directs the Office of Child Care to maintain a website that provides information regarding certified and registered child care facilities and regulated subsidy facilities, authorizes office to maintain information in Central Background Registry through electronic records systems, authorizes office to receive and investigate complaints regarding certified or registered child care facilities, regulated subsidy facilities, preschool recorded programs or school-age recorded programs.
HB 3447: Prohibits use restrictions in instruments conveying real property and in "governing documents" for condominiums or planned communities that prevent operation of certified or registered family child care homes or exempt family child care providers.
SB 245: Modifies the definitions of child and child-caring agency.
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Texas
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HB 674: Prohibits the out-of-school suspension for discipline of students younger than age 6.
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Utah
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HB 185: Modifies provisions of the background check requirements for individuals who have direct access to children or vulnerable adults.
SB 100: Requires the Department of Workforce Services and the Office of Child Care to conduct a study concerning services and resources for children 5 years old and younger and their families.
SB 124: Exempts from the licensing and certification requirements certain child care facilities currently exempted from licensure by rule and requires these facilities to meet existing criminal background check requirements for child care facilities.
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Vermont
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HB 326: Encourages savings by participants in Reach Up and the Child Care Financial Assistance Program.
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Virginia
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HB 896: Revises provisions that govern the dissemination of criminal history record information to remove religious schools, and requires fees charged for the processing and administration of background checks shall not exceed the actual cost to the state of such processing and administration.
HB 1146: Prohibits a locality from requiring notice to or consent of a condominium association or homeowners' association prior to the issuance of a permit, certificate, license, building permit or business license for a business, profession or child care facility.
HB 1568: Requires a fingerprint-based national criminal history background check for applicants for employment by, employees of, applicants to serve as volunteers with, and volunteers with any assisted living facility, adult day care center, child-placing agency, or independent foster home.
HB 1585: Provides for regulation of child care services and facilities in certain counties.
HB 1837: Modifies the licensure exemption requirements for certified preschool or nursery school programs operated by a private school that is accredited by an organization recognized by the Board of Education, removes the list of accrediting associations from the licensure exemption language and provides a reference to the code section that establishes the process for recognition of accrediting organizations.
SB 897: Requires the following individuals to undergo a fingerprint-based national criminal history background check: applicants for employment by, employees of, applicants to serve as volunteers with, and volunteers with any licensed family day system, child day center exempt from licensure, registered family day home, or family day home approved by a family day system.
SB 1008: Clarifies the individual crimes that constitute a barrier for individuals seeking employment at nursing homes, home care organizations, hospices, state facilities, and private providers licensed by the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, community services boards, behavioral health authorities, assisted living facilities, adult day care centers and children's welfare agencies.
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Washington
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HB 1624: Establishes and implements policies in the working connections child care program to promote stability and quality of care for children from low-income households.
HB 1777: Finances early learning facilities to support the needed expansion of early learning classrooms across Washington.
SB 5357: Establishes a pilot project to license outdoor early learning and child care programs.
SB 5901: Concerns eligibility for the working connections child care and early childhood education and assistance programs.
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West Virginia
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SB 233: Excludes from protection oral communications uttered in child care center under Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act.
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