No. CS/CS/CS/CS/HB 765
Filed under Education.
Child Care and Early Learning Services ; Revises minimum standards for child care facility licensing; removes provisions requiring family day care homes & large family child care homes to provide specified information to parents; prohibits residential property insurance policies from providing coverage for liability for claims arising out of, or in connection with, operations of large family child care homes; prohibits insurers from denying, cancelling, & refusing to renew policy for residential property insurance on basis that policyholders or applicants operate large family child care homes; revises requirements for certain prekindergarten curricula; establishes review & approval process for such curricula; creates Florida Child Care Fund; requires DOE direct-support organization to administer fund; requires that funds from state sources & interest earnings be accounted separately; provides for use of funds; provides for establishment & administration of Center for Early Childhood Professional Recognition under specified circumstance.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA new licensing exemption lets public and nonpublic elementary schools run before-school, after-school, and off-hours programs for their own students without a child care facility license.
Family child care homes and large family child care homes no longer have to hand parents yearly flyers on flu risks or the dangers of leaving a child in a hot car.
Large family child care homes get the same homeowners-insurance protections family child care homes already have: insurers can't cancel a policy or refuse to renew one just because the home operates child care.
A new Florida Child Care Fund, run by a Department of Education support organization, raises donations to pay for children on early-learning waiting lists or chosen by the donor.
AIBefore-school, after-school, and other off-hours programs run by public or nonpublic elementary schools for their own students are no longer 'child care facilities' and do not need a child care license under chapter 402.
AIFamily child care homes and large family child care homes no longer must give parents yearly written information on flu symptoms and vaccination, or on the danger of an adult forgetting a child in a hot car.
AIInsurers can no longer deny, cancel, or refuse to renew a residential property policy solely because the applicant operates a large family child care home, the same protection family child care homes already had.
AIA new donation-funded Florida Child Care Fund, run by a Department of Education direct-support organization, pays for child care for children on early learning coalition waiting lists, with a parent copayment based on income.
AIPublic and nonpublic school staff providing after-hours care tied to a school program no longer need child-care background screening only for grades K-12; the exemption now covers any school program serving students.
AIThe department must review and may approve proprietary or purchased prekindergarten curricula used by a provider operating in more than five locations, through a separate process with a 60-day decision deadline.
AISubject to appropriation, the TEACH scholarship program administrator must set up a Center for Early Childhood Professional Recognition to standardize early-childhood training and competency-based assessments statewide.