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Committee adopts amendment and re‑refers bill to Judiciary to require longer retention of daycare video and camera placement in infant/toddler rooms
Summary
After testimony from parents whose children were allegedly harmed in daycare centers, the committee adopted an amendment to House File 19‑15 requiring daycare camera retention and re‑referred the bill to Judiciary, Finance and Civil Law.
Rep. West presented House File 19‑15 and moved the DE4 amendment; the committee adopted the amendment. The chair described the bill’s purpose as increasing accountability in childcare settings after several incidents where video evidence was critical to criminal charges but footage had been deleted within a short time.
Under the adopted amendment, the measure would require child‑care centers to retain video footage for 60 days and would extend retention to six months when an incident triggers a mandatory report (for example, death, fire or ambulance response). The amendment…
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