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House File 2617 laid over after lengthy testimony: authors seek to shift quality standards to accreditation, narrow licensing to health and safety
Summary
Representative Coulter’s House File 2617 would narrow state licensing to health and safety and rely on national accreditation or similar standards to measure program quality. Providers and advocates testified that current licensing is overly punitive and bureaucratic; the committee adopted DE1 and laid the bill over for further work.
Representative Coulter moved House File 2617, a bill aimed at reforming Minnesota’s childcare licensing system to focus licensing on health and safety while encouraging national accreditation or peer‑based quality standards for educational programming.
Providers who testified — center directors and family‑childcare operators — described repeated examples where minor clerical or cosmetic issues led to published citations that they said did not reflect program quality. Testifiers included Kaylee Spencer (Lakeside Early Learning),…
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