Allows child day care providers an extension of time to make necessary changes or accommodations to their facility to meet licensing requirements

• Democratic2
• Republican1

◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Christopher Ryan says this is needed

The cost of providing child day care has steadily risen in the preceding years. This crucial family service has become prohibitively expensive for parents and represents just another barrier to starting a family. The rise in cost is partly to blame on the lack of availability of child day care providers. The difficulties associated with starting a child day care center are so great as to be overly burdensome for some prospective providers. An associated difficulty with starting child day care centers is the licensing period. Currently, prospective providers are subject to an inspection of the potential child day care facility within 90 days of filing for a license. If the inspection finds the facility in need of modification or accommodation, then the prospective provider only has what remains of that 90-day period to remedy any issues, regardless of scope. If they fail to remedy the issue within those 90 days, the entire licensing process restarts. This bill remedies this issue by extending that 90-day period to allow prospective providers to fix any issues that arose during inspection without having to restart the entire process. If the issues have still not been fixed within the extended window, the Office of Children and Families shall have the authority to grant addi- tional extensions as necessary at their discretion.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.