Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB477: State Department of Education - Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Regulatory Analysis
Status: Chaptered, May 6, 2025
Requiring the State Department of Education to conduct a thorough analysis of the State's regulatory framework for child care facilities with particular emphasis on regulations that limit a person's ability to register a child care facility, receive a license to operate a child care center, or operate a child care facility in a profitable manner while providing quality care; and requiring an interim and final report be submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly by January 1, 2026, and September 1, 2026, respectively.
What the bill says
An act concerning Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Adult to Child Ratios - Alterations State Department of Education - Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Regulatory Analysis FOR the purpose of altering the number of children under a certain age that are authorized to be in care in a family child care home; altering certain ratios for adults to children of certain ages in family child care homes and child care centers…
From the enrolled text, May 8, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Adult to Child Ratios - Alterations State Department of Education - Family Child Care Homes and Child Care Centers - Regulatory Analysis FOR the purpose of altering the number of children under a certain age that are authorized to be in care in a family child care home; altering certain ratios for adults to children of certain ages in family child care homes and child care centers; requiring the State Department of Education to conduct a thorough analysis of the State's regulatory requirements of certain child care facilities and report the results of its analysis on or before certain dates; and generally relating to limits on the number of young children in child care settings an analysis of the regulatory requirements for child care facilities in the State. BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Education Section 9.5-305 and 9.5-404(b)(13) and (c) Annotated Code of Maryland (2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, Article - Education Section 9.5-404(a) Annotated Code of Maryland (2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) BY adding to Article - Education Section 9.5-404(c) Annotated Code of Maryland (2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland …