Florida Senate - 2023                              CS for SB 538
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; and
       Senator Trumbull
       
       
       
       
       586-02302-23                                           2023538c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to provisional child care licensing;
    3         amending s. 402.309, F.S.; requiring a local licensing
    4         agency or the Department of Children and Families, as
    5         applicable, to issue a provisional license or
    6         registration for a family day care home under certain
    7         circumstances; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Present subsections (3), (4), and (5) of section
   12  402.309, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (4),
   13  (5), and (6), respectively, and a new subsection (3) is added to
   14  that section, to read:
   15         402.309 Provisional license or registration.—
   16         (3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), a local licensing
   17  agency or the department, whichever is authorized to license
   18  child care facilities in a county, must issue a provisional
   19  license or registration for a family day care home when the
   20  applicant provides evidence that he or she has completed, within
   21  the previous 6 months, training pursuant to United States
   22  Department of Defense Instruction 6060.02 and background
   23  screening by the United States Department of Defense pursuant to
   24  34 U.S.C. s. 20351 and 32 C.F.R. part 86.
   25         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.