Directs the state department of human services to designate a family child care home licensee as an experienced child care provider if the licensee meets certain criteria. Identifies the criteria a licensee must meet in order to receive designation as an experienced child care provider, including 6 consecutive years of experience, appropriate character and suitability, child development training, and compliance with governmental regulations. Allows experienced child care providers the option to select from any of 5 incentives that allow such provider to care for more children than other licensees. Provides that the licensee shall immediately lose his or her experienced child care provider designation if there are problems with character and suitability or if there is a negative licensing action taken against such licensee. Directs the state board of human services to promulgate the necessary rules for the implementation of the act.
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