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State proposes major rewrite of child‑care licensing; department seeks rulemaking and training timeline changes
Summary
The Department of Health and Human Services proposed HB 1119 to consolidate multiple child‑care license types into two (family and center), streamline training timelines, decouple annual training from license renewal deadlines and create a preschool designation; providers urged robust rulemaking and flagged cost and staffing impacts.
House Human Services Committee members heard testimony Wednesday on House Bill 1119, a department‑sponsored proposal that would simplify North Dakota’s child‑care licensing framework by consolidating several license categories into two primary types (family child care and child care center), creating a voluntary "recognized" status for some exempt providers and changing annual training timelines.
Carmen Trehult, early childhood licensing administrator for the Department of Health and Human Services, said the rewrite responds to a crosswalk study that found redundancy across six license types and administrative burdens that confuse providers and parents. The bill would allow family child care programs to serve up to 12 children and would treat centers as…
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