Missouri committee debates bill to require QR codes linking parents to childcare inspection reports

The House Committee on Children and Families held a public hearing on House Bill 637, a measure that would require childcare facilities to display a QR code linking to state inspection reports, substantiated complaints and corrective actions.

Sponsor Representative Mark Matheson said the bill is intended to make an existing state resource easier for parents to use. “Parents don’t know that [the website] exists,” Matheson told the committee, describing a searchable state database of inspections and substantiated child-endangerment complaints and saying the QR code would speed access.

The bill’s backers told the committee parents must be able to see inspection reports before leaving a child at an unfamiliar facility. Amy Robertson, a board-certified behavior analyst and Missouri First Steps provider, described multiple…