Here we go again. The Senate has a bill in process called
Idaho Senate bill 1112.
This is the STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS18664
This legislation amends Title 39 Chapter 11 of Idaho Code to revise and extend the State's
licensing requirements for child care providers.
The current code provides minimum health and safety standards for day care centers with thirteen or more children, but does not provide licensure for providers with fewer than thirteen.
This legislation would extend licensing to all providers who receive compensation and care for four or more children, with specific exceptions maintained.
Basic requirements include: criminal history background checks, health, safety and fire inspections and restrictions on firearms, alcohol and tobacco use.
Minimum standards for infant CPR and first aid training are specified.
This act establishes staff child ration recommendations consistent with
nationally accepted standards and provides for fees to be established based
upon the number of children.
The Health and Welfare Department will serve as the portal or administrator for the program. The Department will contract for the inspection services, receive and compile complaints and provide for a one stop application process.
FISCAL NOTE
There is no impact to the General Fund. There will be additional oversight from the Department of Health and Welfare but this legislation provides for the actual costs of administration to be passed.
Seems simple enough. What can be questionable? Yet this is the 3rd try? for the
Idaho Congress to get one thru. Each time losing the fight. Do you know how many
rules and regs there are for taking care of the elderly? That was written by the Idaho Congress as well as the Federal?
Yet, in Boise the protection of children seem to be secondary to some...
enough to kill a bill time after time... Why is that?
If you care, write to your Senator in Boise NOW.
Tuesday This and That
21 hours ago
1 comment:
It's not just in Boise - one of your main players is from North Idaho - Broadsword and she is Lodge's walking mouthpiece. Some of the biggest resistance is from the women.
It's about the money, not the children. Lodge is about the money - not the children. She is also about H & W oversight which just happens to be very dangerous and incompetent, while at the same time, she does not want the state to be responsible for any fiscal impact. Broadsword wants to remove the Women's Commission who protect children - she even agrees that we do not need a task force to investigate infant deaths in Idaho which tops the nation because it will cost too much money. Lodge who's side by side cohort, Broadsword, could not even stand up to the this federal judge's wife who happens to chair the H&W committee. Broadsword is her vice chair. Lodge runs it all and she is too damn old to be effective anymore. She needs to go home and take care of her cows and Broadword needs to do something right. But again and again, they keep getting voted back in the door.
They will most likely pass this because it has been tweaked to not cost money and the public is pissed at that lack of child protection here. We just recently decided to keep track of child perverts.
Personally, more government control in Idaho scares the bjeezus out of me because they are lame and incompetent idiots,
but our new and improved official Idaho website looks good!
The senate bill requires government oversight for any household who takes care of 4 or more children who are not related. There are strict inspection codes that must be meant and this has to come out of the provider's pocketbook. It's a revenue generator for the state. You will also be required to provide a certificate of immunizations to the provider for the state record.
I am really glad i am not impacted by this and my kids are grown. If I decide to take care of children down the road as I age, I will only accept three of them, and charge through the roof for the great private care.
I have already called - many times - they hate me - and I don't care.
Nice post, Cis.
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