Florida Senate - 2011                                    SB 1874
       
       
       
       By Senator Smith
       
       
       
       
       29-01298-11                                           20111874__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to child care; amending s. 402.305,
    3         F.S.; revising the minimum standards for licensure of
    4         child care facilities; requiring the Department of
    5         Children and Family Services to establish and contract
    6         for an electronic child care attendance verification
    7         system; providing for statewide implementation of the
    8         system; requiring licensed child care facilities to
    9         use the system; providing an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (9) of
   14  section 402.305, Florida Statutes, to read:
   15         402.305 Licensing standards; child care facilities.—
   16         (9) ADMISSIONS AND RECORDKEEPING.—
   17         (e) The department shall adopt minimum standards for the
   18  statewide implementation of an electronic child care attendance
   19  verification system that records each child’s daily arrival and
   20  departure from the child care facility using a point-of-sale
   21  terminal and an identification card issued to the child’s parent
   22  or guardian with identifying information encoded on the card’s
   23  magnetic strip or stripe. If a parent or guardian fails to
   24  present his or her identification card, the electronic system
   25  must allow for the child’s attendance to be recorded or allow
   26  the parent or guardian to amend the child’s attendance record
   27  within 10 days after his or her failure to present the
   28  identification card. The department shall contract for the
   29  statewide implementation of the electronic child care attendance
   30  verification system. Effective January 1, 2012, or upon the
   31  statewide implementation, whichever occurs later, a licensed
   32  child care facility’s use of the electronic system shall be a
   33  required minimum standard for licensing.
   34         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.