Bill Text - HB1584 (2024)

Relative to home day care licensing requirements.


Revision: Dec. 15, 2023, 3:35 p.m.

HB 1584  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2224

05/02

 

HOUSE BILL 1584

 

AN ACT relative to home day care licensing requirements.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Peternel, Carr. 6; Rep. Vose, Rock. 5; Rep. Cushman, Hills. 28; Rep. Drye, Sull. 7; Rep. Seidel, Hills. 29

 

COMMITTEE: Special Committee on Childcare

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill exempts from child day care licensing requirements private homes in which care is provided for up to 4 children in addition to the provider's own children.  Current law permits care for 3 additional children.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2224

05/02

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to home day care licensing requirements.

 

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

 

1  Child Day Care Licensing; Exemption; Care in Private Homes.  Amend RSA 170-E:3, I(c) to read as follows:

(c)  Private homes in which any number of the provider's own children, whether related biologically or through adoption, and up to [3] 4 additional children are cared for regularly for any part of the day, but less than 24 hours, unless the caregiver elects to comply with the provisions of this chapter and be licensed.

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