2025 bills / S.B. 221
S.B. 221 Child Care Revisions (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill requires residential child care providers caring for a set number of qualifying children to get a license or certification. It also limits certified providers to no more than two qualifying children under certain ages, changes when the state can inspect a certified provider's home, and amends child care background check rules.
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Official description
- requires licensure for a residential child care provider when providing child care for a certain number of qualifying children
- requires certification for a residential child care provider when providing child care for a certain number of qualifying children
- amends provisions authorizing the Department of Health and Human Services to inspect the home of a certified child care provider under certain circumstances
- prohibits a certified residential child care provider from providing child care to more than two qualifying children under certain ages
- amends provisions of criminal background check requirements for a child care provider
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 221 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 221 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 4 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 2 no, 2 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 2 no, 3 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 3 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 28 yes, 43 no, 4 absentHouse vote, which failed · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how