Revision: Jan. 30, 2017, 11:23 a.m.
HB 257 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0585
05/06
HOUSE BILL 257
AN ACT relative to the use of cloth diapers in licensed child day care centers.
SPONSORS: Rep. Prout, Hills. 37
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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This bill permits a child day care agency to use home laundered cloth diapers at the request of a child's parent.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0585
05/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to the use of cloth diapers in licensed child day care centers.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Child Day Care Licensing; Rulemaking; Use of Cloth Diapers. Amend RSA 170-E:11, I(e) to read as follows:
(e) Provisions for food, clothing, educational opportunities, program, equipment and individual supplies to assure the health and the physical and mental development of children served; provided that such rules shall not preclude a licensee from permitting the use of home laundered cloth diapers at the parent's request. A request from the child's health care practitioner and the unavailability of a commercial diaper service shall not be required.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.