Bill Text - SB106 (2024)

Establishing an emerging professional certificate for child care programs.


Revision: Jan. 19, 2023, 10:17 a.m.

SB 106-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2023 SESSION

23-0831

06/10

 

SENATE BILL 106-FN

 

AN ACT establishing an emerging professional certificate for child care programs.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Fenton, Dist 10; Sen. Ward, Dist 8

 

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill creates emerging professional certificates and the requirements for the department of health and human services to issue such certificates.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0831

06/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT establishing an emerging professional certificate for child care programs.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Subparagraph; Child Day Care Licensing; Rulemaking.  Amend RSA 170-E:11, I by inserting after subparagraph (n) the following new subparagraph:

(o)  Emerging Professional Certificates.  An emerging professional certificate shall be issued to an applicant who has graduated high school, completed an application to the department's child care licensing unit, and completed the following requirements: completion of 500 hours in a career technical education (CTE) program that includes a minimum of 200 hours of observation, lesson planning, and practice teaching under supervision of a licensed educator in a licensed center-based child care program, licensed family child care, public or private school pre-K through 3rd grade program; 3 courses on educator preparation and child development; and submission of a plan for on-going professional development.  

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.

 

LBA

23-0831

1/17/23

 

SB 106-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT establishing an emerging professional certificate for child care programs.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

Due to time constraints, the Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to provide a fiscal note for this bill, as introduced, at this time.  When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the Senate Clerk's Office.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Health and Human Services