HB 230 (2021)

Revises the procedure for posting results of child day care monitoring visits on the department of health and human services website and expands the licensee's opportunity to respond to the department's findings. In particular, this bill requires the state to give the licensee fifteen days notice before posting information, and to post any response from the licensee. If the department suspends, revokes, denies, or refuses to renew a license or permit, a child day care agency would be able to continue to operate until a final decision on an appeal, with some exceptions (notably "a present and credible threat to the health or safety of children"). 

As introduced in the House, this bill also required a child day care agency employee to obtain at least 6 hours of annual continuing education or professional development. The bill required a child care associate teacher to have 1,000 hours of supervised child care experience in a licensed child care program and 30 hours of training in child growth and development to be certified. (The 30 hours of training in child growth and development could include "documented life experience.") The Senate voted to remove these education and experience requirements.