Title: Child Care Facility Licensing Standards

Summary: Requires child care facility or large family child care home to install video camera in each vehicle used by such facility or home to transport children; requires facility or home to ensure video camera is continuously recording inside vehicle while transporting children; requires DCF to adopt by rule minimum standards & maintain list of approved video cameras on its website.

Full Text:
An act relating to child care facility licensing standards; amending s. 402.305, F.S.; requiring a child care facility or large family child care home to install a video camera, approved by the Department of Children and Families, in each vehicle used by the facility or home to transport children; requiring that the facility or home ensure that such video camera is continuously recording inside the vehicle while transporting children; requiring the department to adopt by rule minimum standards and maintain a list of approved video cameras on its website; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section.Subsection (10) of section 402.305, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 402.305 Licensing standards; child care facilities.-(10) TRANSPORTATION SAFETY.-(a) Minimum standards shall include requirements for child restraints or seat belts and video cameras in vehicles used by child care facilities and large family child care homes to transport children, requirements for annual inspections of the vehicles, limitations on the number of children in the vehicles, HB 2020 procedures to avoid leaving children i nvehicles when transported by the facility or home, and accountability for children transported by the child care facility or home. A child care facility or a large family child care home is not responsible for children when they are transported by a pare nt or guardian. (b) A child care facility or a large family child care home shall install a video camera, approved by the department, in each vehicle used by the facility or home to transport children. The facility or home must ensure that the video came ra is continuously recording inside each vehicle while transporting children. The department shall adopt by rule minimum standards for the installation and operation of such video cameras and shall maintain a list of approved video cameras that meet or exceed such standards on its website. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.