Florida Senate - 2023                                     SB 538
       
       
        
       By Senator Trumbull
       
       
       
       
       
       2-00561A-23                                            2023538__
    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 to
    5         issue a provisional license or registration for a
    6         family day care home under certain circumstances;
    7         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) A local licensing agency or the department, whichever
   17  is authorized to license child care facilities in a county, must
   18  issue a provisional license or registration for a family day
   19  care home when the operator provides evidence of training
   20  pursuant to United States Department of Defense Instruction
   21  6060.02 and background screening by the United States Department
   22  of Defense pursuant to 34 U.S.C. s. 20351 and 32 C.F.R. part 86.
   23         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.