BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

HB 1082: Child care provider qualif.

Concerning qualifications for child care providers.

Summary

Requires the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) to allow child care providers until at least August 1, 2028, to demonstrate experience-based competency as an alternative to an early childhood education (ECE) certificate.
Allows child care providers to fulfill experience-based competency requirements when they have had qualifying employment without a break in service since August 1, 2021.
Expands the experience-based competency option to include providers whose position requires an ECE state certificate.
Requires the DCYF to proactively recognize the fulfillment of staff qualification requirements for providers who have met experience-based competency criteria as of the effective date of the bill.
Requires the DCYF to convene a stakeholder group to assist in identifying strategies to improve staff qualification requirements and verification processes and report to the Legislature by December 1, 2026.

From the House Bill Analysis 2025 (HB 1082), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to qualifications for child care providers;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

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