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HB 2253 technical fixes would ease licensing, add kinship exceptions and adjust staffing ratios, DCYF says
Summary
House Bill 2253 would update licensing rules including child‑specific kinship licenses for interstate placements, waive certain training for kinship caregivers, adjust crisis residential center staffing ratios, and allow DCYF to designate inactive licenses; DCYF and providers largely supported the technical fixes but members sought clearer definitions for 'inactive.'
The committee heard House Bill 2253, an agency‑request bill proposing technical corrections to licensing statutes for child care, kinship placements and certain residential programs.
Committee counsel Luke Wickham said the bill lets DCYF issue child‑specific licenses to relatives for children placed from another state, exempts kinship caregivers from blood‑borne pathogen training, adjusts staffing ratios for crisis residential centers (1 staff per 4 children during working…
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