No. CS/CS/CS/SB 1690
Filed under Education.
Child Care and Early Learning Services; Revising the information on child care required to be disseminated electronically to the community; deleting the requirement that family child care homes and large family child care homes, respectively, provide specified information to parents each year; requiring that certain child care facilities exempt from licensure requirements meet certain minimum requirements; prohibiting residential property insurance policies from providing coverage for liability for claims arising out of, or in connection with, the operations of large family child care homes, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDLarge family child care homes join family child care homes under the same insurance rule: a standard residential policy excludes liability for daycare-related claims unless the owner buys a specific rider, though insurers can no longer cancel the base policy just for operating one.
Two annual parent-notice duties are repealed: family child care homes and large family child care homes no longer must hand out yearly information on flu symptoms and on the danger of leaving a child in a hot car.
A new Florida Child Care Fund lets private donors pay down early learning coalitions' waiting lists, or direct their gift to one chosen provider, administered by a Department of Education direct-support organization newly authorized to fund birth-to-5 programs.
Child care facilities exempt from licensing -- church-run programs and those serving only certain eligible children -- must now post a plain notice that they are unregulated, and the state must publicly report deaths and abuse in those exempt settings too.
AIA residential property insurance policy may not cover liability for claims arising from operating a large family child care home unless the owner buys a specific rider or endorsement; insurers also may not cancel, deny, or refuse to renew a policy solely because the applicant runs one.
AIA new direct-support-organization-administered fund collects private donations and legislative appropriations to pay for child care for children on early learning coalitions' waiting lists, or for a specific provider a donor selects, subject to the standard parent copayment.
AIFamily child care homes and large family child care homes no longer must give parents yearly written information each August/September on flu symptoms and transmission, or each April/September on the danger of a distracted adult leaving a child in a hot car.
AIA child care facility exempt from licensing because it is church-affiliated or serves only certain eligible children must post a specific statement, on its website, promotional materials, and forms given to families, that it is not licensed or regulated by the state.
AIThe Department of Education direct-support organization that raises and spends money for public schools may now also make expenditures for the benefit of early learning programs serving children from birth to age 5, not just prekindergarten-through-12th-grade education.
AIThe state's electronically published yearly count of deaths, serious injuries, and substantiated child abuse in child care settings must now explicitly include incidents at facilities exempt from licensure, not only licensed and registered ones.
AIThe TEACH Scholarship Program administrator must also set up a statewide center to approve trainers and training and administer competency-based assessments tied to early learning career pathways, funded only if the Legislature appropriates money for it.