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IA Code § 237A.25 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237A - CHILD CARE FACILITIES|Section 237A.25 - Consumer information.

237A.25 Consumer information.   1. The department shall develop consumer information material to assist parents in selecting a child care provider. In developing the material, the department shall consult with department of human services staff, department of education staff, the state child care advisory committee, the early childhood Iowa state board, and child care resource and referral services. In addition, the department may consult with other entities at the local, state, and national level.   2. The consumer information material developed by the department for parents and other consumers of child care services shall include but is not limited to all of the following:   a. A pamphlet or other printed material containing consumer-oriented information on locating a quality child care provider.   b. Information explaining important considerations a consumer should take into account in selecting a licensed or registered child care provider.   c. Information explaining how a consumer can identify quality services, including what questions to ask of providers and what a consumer might expect or demand to know before selecting a provider.   d. An explanation of the applicable laws and regulations written in layperson’s terms.   e. An explanation of what it means for a provider to be licensed, registered, or unregistered.   f. An explanation of the information considered in registry and record background checks.   g. Other information deemed relevant to consumers.   3. The department shall implement and publicize an internet page or site that provides all of the following:   a. The written information developed pursuant to subsections 1 and 2.   b. Regular informational updates, including when a child care provider was last subject to a state quality review or inspection and, based upon a final score or review, the results indicating whether the provider passed or failed the review or inspection.   c. Capability for a consumer to be able to access information concerning child care providers, such as informational updates, identification of provider location, name, and capacity, and identification of providers participating in the state child care assistance program and those participating in the child care food program, by sorting the information or employing other means that provide the information in a manner that is useful to the consumer. Information regarding provider location shall identify providers located in the vicinity of an address selected by a consumer and provide contact information without listing the specific addresses of the providers.   d. Other information deemed appropriate by the department.  2003 Acts, 1st Ex, ch 2, §18, 209; 2010 Acts, ch 1031, §357, 361; 2017 Acts, ch 29, §57  Referred to in §237A.4A, 237A.30
IA Code § 237A.27 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237A - CHILD CARE FACILITIES|Section 237A.27 - Crisis child care.

237A.27 Crisis child care. Repealed by  2002 Acts, ch 1142, §29, 31  .
IA Code § 237A.28 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237A - CHILD CARE FACILITIES|Section 237A.28 - Child care credit fund.

237A.28 Child care credit fund. Repealed by  2009 Acts, ch 182, §138  .
IA Code § 237A.30 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237A - CHILD CARE FACILITIES|Section 237A.30 - Voluntary child care quality rating system.

237A.30 Voluntary child care quality rating system.   1. The department shall work with the early childhood Iowa office in the department of management established in section 256I.5 and the state child care advisory committee in designing and implementing a voluntary quality rating system for each provider type of child care facility.   2. The criteria utilized for the rating system may include but are not limited to any of the following:   a. Facility type.   b. Provider staff experience, education, training, and credentials.   c. Facility director education and training.   d. An environmental rating score or other direct assessment environmental methodology.   e. National accreditation.   f. Facility history of compliance with law and rules.   g. Child-to-staff ratio.   h. Curriculum, including the extent to which the curriculum focuses on the stages of child development and on child outcomes.   i. Business practices.   j. Staff retention rates.   k. Evaluation of staff members and program practices.   l. Staff compensation and benefit practices.   m. Provider and staff membership in professional early childhood organizations.   n. Parental involvement with the facility.   3. A facility’s quality rating may be included on the internet site and in the consumer information provided by the department pursuant to section 237A.25 and shall be identified in the child care provider referrals made by child care resource and referral service grantees under section 237A.26.  99 Acts, ch 192, §33; 99 Acts, ch 203, §49; 2002 Acts, ch 1142, §27, 28, 31; 2005 Acts, ch 148, §20; 2006 Acts, ch 1010, §76; 2010 Acts, ch 1031, §302, 358, 361; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §257; 2015 Acts, ch 30, §85, 205, 208; 2019 Acts, ch 24, §28
IA Code § 237C.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237C - CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES — CERTIFICATION AND INSPECTION|Section 237C.1 - Definitions.

237C.1 Definitions.   As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   1. “Administrator” means the administrator of that division of the department designated by the director of human services to administer this chapter or the administrator’s designee.   2. “Child” or “children” means an individual or individuals under eighteen years of age.   3. “Children’s residential facility” means a private facility designed to serve children who have been voluntarily placed for reasons other than an exclusively recreational activity outside of their home by a parent or legal guardian and who are not under the custody or authority of the department of human services, juvenile court, or another governmental agency, that provides twenty-four-hour care, including food, lodging, supervision, education, or other care on a full-time basis by a person other than a relative or guardian of the child, but does not include an entity providing any of the following:   a. Care furnished by an individual who receives the child of a personal friend as an occasional and personal guest in the individual’s home, free of charge and not as a business.   b. Care furnished by an individual with whom a child has been placed for lawful adoption, unless that adoption is not completed within two years after placement.   c. Child care furnished by a child care facility as defined in section 237A.1.   d. Care furnished in a hospital licensed under chapter 135B or care furnished in a health care facility as defined in section 135C.1.   e. Care furnished by a juvenile detention home or juvenile shelter care home approved under section 232.142.   f. Care furnished by a child foster care facility licensed under chapter 237.   g. Care furnished by an institution listed in section 218.1.   h. Care furnished by a facility licensed under chapter 125.   i. Care furnished by a psychiatric medical institution for children licensed under chapter 135H.   4. “Department” means the department of human services.  2016 Acts, ch 1114, §1
IA Code § 237C.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237C - CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES — CERTIFICATION AND INSPECTION|Section 237C.2 - Purpose.

237C.2 Purpose.   It is the policy of this state to provide appropriate protection for children who are separated from the direct personal care of their parents, relatives, or guardians and, therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to provide for the development, establishment, and enforcement of standards relating to the certification of children’s residential facilities.  2016 Acts, ch 1114, §2
IA Code § 237C.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237C - CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES — CERTIFICATION AND INSPECTION|Section 237C.3 - Certification standards — consultation with other agencies.

237C.3 Certification standards — consultation with other agencies.   1. The department of human services shall consult with the department of education, the department of inspections and appeals, the department of public health, the state fire marshal, and other agencies as determined by the department of human services to establish certification standards for children’s residential facilities in accordance with this chapter.   2. Standards established by the department under this chapter shall at a minimum address the basic health and educational needs of children; protection of children from mistreatment, abuse, and neglect; background and records checks of persons providing care to children in facilities certified under this chapter; the use of seclusion, restraint, or other restrictive interventions; health; safety; emergency; and the physical premises on which care is provided by a children’s residential facility. The background check requirements shall be substantially equivalent to those applied under chapter 237 for a child foster care facility provider.   3. Standards established by the department under this chapter shall not regulate religious education curricula at children’s residential facilities.  2016 Acts, ch 1114, §3  Referred to in §237C.4
IA Code § 237C.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237C - CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES — CERTIFICATION AND INSPECTION|Section 237C.4 - Rules and standards — requirements.

237C.4 Rules and standards — requirements.   1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to administer this chapter.   2. Before the administrator issues or reissues a certificate of approval to a children’s residential facility under section 237C.6, the facility shall comply with standards adopted by the state fire marshal under chapter 100.   3. Rules governing sanitation, water, and waste disposal standards for children’s residential facilities shall be adopted by the department of human services in consultation with the director of public health.   4. Rules governing educational programs and education services provided by children’s residential facilities shall be adopted by the state board of education pursuant to section 282.34.   5. In the case of a conflict between rules and standards adopted pursuant to subsections 2 and 3 and local rules and standards, the more stringent requirement applies.   6. Rules adopted under this section shall not regulate religious education curricula at children’s residential facilities.   7. Prior to establishing, proposing, adopting, or modifying a standard or rule under section 237C.3, this section, or section 282.34, the department of human services or the department of education, as applicable, shall, at a minimum, do all of the following:   a. Publish the entire text of the proposed standard, rule, or modification on its internet site.   b. Make every reasonable effort to notify the children’s residential facilities in this state of the proposed standard, rule, or modification.   c. Allow and invite any and all persons interested in the proposed standard, rule, or modification to submit written data, facts, opinions, comments, and arguments, which information shall be made publicly available and shall be filed with and maintained by the applicable department for at least five years from the date of submission to the applicable department.  2016 Acts, ch 1114, §4  Referred to in §282.34
IA Code § 237C.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237C - CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES — CERTIFICATION AND INSPECTION|Section 237C.5 - Certificate of approval — certification required.

237C.5 Certificate of approval — certification required.   A person shall not operate a children’s residential facility without a certificate of approval to operate issued by the administrator under this chapter.  2016 Acts, ch 1114, §5
IA Code § 237C.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237C - CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES — CERTIFICATION AND INSPECTION|Section 237C.6 - Certificate application and issuance — denial, suspension, or revocation.

237C.6 Certificate application and issuance — denial, suspension, or revocation.   1. A person shall apply for a certificate to operate a children’s residential facility by completing and submitting to the administrator an application in a form and format approved by the administrator. The administrator shall issue or reissue a certificate of approval if the administrator determines that the applicant is or upon commencing operation will provide children’s residential facility services in compliance with this chapter. A certificate of approval is valid for up to one year from the date of issuance for the period determined by the administrator in accordance with administrative rules providing criteria for making the determination.   2. The certificate of approval shall state on its face the name of the holder of the certificate, the particular premises for which the certificate is issued, and the number of children who may be cared for by the children’s residential facility on the premises at one time under the certificate of occupancy issued by the state fire marshal or the state fire marshal’s designee. The certificate of approval shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the children’s residential facility.   3. The administrator may deny an application for issuance or reissuance of a certificate of approval or suspend or revoke a certificate of approval if the applicant or certificate holder, as applicable, fails to comply with this chapter or the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter or knowingly makes a false statement concerning a material fact or conceals a material fact on the application for the issuance or reissuance of a certificate of approval or in a report regarding operation of the children’s residential facility submitted to the administrator. All operations of a children’s residential facility shall cease during a period of suspension or revocation. The administrator shall suspend or revoke a certificate of approval of a children’s residential facility that fails to comply with section 282.34.  2016 Acts, ch 1114, §6  Referred to in §237C.4
IA Code § 237C.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237C - CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES — CERTIFICATION AND INSPECTION|Section 237C.7 - Restricted use of facility.

237C.7 Restricted use of facility.   A children’s residential facility shall operate only in a building or on premises designated in the certificate of approval.  2016 Acts, ch 1114, §7
IA Code § 237C.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237C - CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES — CERTIFICATION AND INSPECTION|Section 237C.8 - Reports and inspections.

237C.8 Reports and inspections.   The administrator may require submission of reports by a certificate of approval holder and shall cause at least one annual unannounced inspection of a children’s residential facility to assess compliance with applicable requirements and standards. The inspections shall be conducted by the department of inspections and appeals in addition to initial, renewal, and other inspections that result from complaints or self-reported incidents. The department of inspections and appeals and the department of human services may examine records of a children’s residential facility and may inquire into matters concerning the children’s residential facility and its employees, volunteers, and subcontractors relating to requirements and standards for children’s residential facilities under this chapter.  2016 Acts, ch 1114, §8
IA Code § 237C.9 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237C - CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES — CERTIFICATION AND INSPECTION|Section 237C.9 - Injunctive relief — civil action.

237C.9 Injunctive relief — civil action.   1. A person who establishes, conducts, manages, or operates a children’s residential facility without a certificate of approval required pursuant to this chapter, or a children’s residential facility with a certificate of approval that is not operating in compliance with rules adopted pursuant to this chapter or section 282.34, may be restrained by temporary or permanent injunction from providing children’s residential facility services or from other involvement with child care. The action may be instituted by the state or a county attorney.   2. The parent or legal guardian of a child who is placed in a children’s residential facility, the state, the department of education, or the school district in which the children’s residential facility is located, may bring a civil action seeking relief from conduct constituting a violation of this chapter or section 282.34 or to prevent, restrain, or remedy such violation. A civil action brought by the department of education under this subsection shall be limited to seeking relief from conduct constituting a violation of section 282.34. Multiple petitioners may join in a single action under this subsection.   3. If successful in obtaining injunctive relief under this section, the petitioner shall be awarded reasonable attorney fees and court costs.  2016 Acts, ch 1114, §9
IA Code § 237C.10 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 237C - CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES — CERTIFICATION AND INSPECTION|Section 237C.10 - Notice and hearings — judicial review.

237C.10 Notice and hearings — judicial review.   The procedure governing notice and hearing to deny an application or suspend or revoke a certificate of approval shall be in accordance with rules adopted by the department.  2016 Acts, ch 1114, §10
IA Code § 238.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 238 - CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES|Section 238.1 - Definitions.

238.1 Definitions.   For the purpose of this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:   1. “Administrator” means the administrator of the division of child and family services of the department of human services.   2. “Child” means the same as defined in section 234.1.   3. “Child-placing agency” means any agency, whether public, semipublic, or private, which represents that the agency places children permanently or temporarily in private family homes or receives children for placement in private family homes, or which actually engages for gain or otherwise in the placement of children in private family homes.   4. “Person” or “agency” shall include individuals, institutions, partnerships, voluntary associations, and corporations, other than institutions under the management or control of any division or any administrator of the department of human services.   5. “State division” means the same as defined in section 234.1.  [C27, 31, 35, §3661-a58; C39, §3661.072; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §238.1]  83 Acts, ch 96, §157, 159; 84 Acts, ch 1279, §41; 94 Acts, ch 1046, §8; 96 Acts, ch 1034, §14; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §95  Referred to in §238.17, 600A.2
IA Code § 238.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 238 - CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES|Section 238.2 - “Child-placing agency” defined.

238.2 “Child-placing agency” defined. Repealed by  2009 Acts, ch 133, §191  .
IA Code § 238.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 238 - CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES|Section 238.3 - Authority to license.

238.3 Authority to license.   The administrator may grant a license under this chapter for the period specified in section 238.9 for the conduct of any child-placing agency in this state.  [C27, 31, 35, §3661-a60; C39, §3661.074; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §238.3]  2002 Acts, ch 1102, §5
IA Code § 238.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 238 - CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES|Section 238.4 - Granting of license conditional.

238.4 Granting of license conditional.   No such license shall be issued unless the person applying shall have shown that the person and the person’s agents are properly equipped by training and experience to find and select suitable temporary or permanent homes for children and to supervise such homes when children are placed in them, to the end that the health, morality, and general well-being of children placed by them shall be properly safeguarded.  [C27, 31, 35, §3661-a61; C39, §3661.075; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §238.4]
IA Code § 238.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 238 - CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES|Section 238.5 - License required.

238.5 License required.   No person shall conduct a child-placing agency or solicit or receive funds for its support without an unrevoked license issued by the administrator within the twelve months preceding to conduct such agency.  [C27, 31, 35, §3661-a62; C39, §3661.076; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §238.5]
IA Code § 238.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 238 - CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES|Section 238.6 - Form of license.

238.6 Form of license.   The license shall state the name of the licensee and the particular premises in which the business may be carried on.  [C27, 31, 35, §3661-a63; C39, §3661.077; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §238.6]
IA Code § 238.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 238 - CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES|Section 238.7 - Posting of license.

238.7 Posting of license.   Such license shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place on the licensed premises.  [C27, 31, 35, §3661-a64; C39, §3661.078; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §238.7]
IA Code § 238.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 238 - CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES|Section 238.8 - Record of license.

238.8 Record of license.   A record of the licenses so issued shall be kept by the administrator.  [C27, 31, 35, §3661-a65; C39, §3661.079; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §238.8]
IA Code § 238.9 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 238 - CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES|Section 238.9 - Term of license.

238.9 Term of license.   A license granted under this chapter shall be valid for three years from the date of issuance unless the license is revoked in accordance with section 238.10.  [C27, 31, 35, §3661-a66; C39, §3661.080; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §238.9]  2002 Acts, ch 1102, §6  Referred to in §238.3
IA Code § 238.10 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title VI - HUMAN SERVICES|Chapter 238 - CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES|Section 238.10 - Revocation of license.

238.10 Revocation of license.   The administrator may, after due notice and hearing, revoke the license:   1. In case the person to whom the same is issued violates any provision of this chapter.   2. When in the opinion of the administrator such agency is maintained in such a way as to waste or misuse funds contributed by the public or without due regard to sanitation or hygiene or to the health, comfort, or well-being of the child cared for or placed by the agency.   3. In case of violation by the licensee or the licensee’s agents of any law of the state in a manner disclosing moral turpitude or unfitness to maintain such agency.   4. In case any such agency is conducted by a person of ill repute or bad moral character.   5. In case said agency operates in persistent violation of the reasonable regulations of the administrator governing such agencies.  [S13, §3260-k; C24, §3663; C27, 31, 35, §3661-a67; C39, §3661.081; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §238.10]  Referred to in §238.9