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An Act To Allow In-home Child Care Providers To Care for up to 5 Children without State Certification
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §8301-A, sub-§1-A, ¶C, as amended by PL 2005, c. 530, §7, is further amended to read:
 
C. "Family child care provider" means a person who provides day care in that person's home on a regular basis, for consideration, for 36 to 12 children under 13 years of age who are not the children of the provider or who are not residing in the provider's home. If a provider is caring for children living in that provider's home and is caring for no more than 2 other children, the provider is not required to be certified as a family child care provider.
 
SUMMARY
Under current law, a person who provides day care in that person's home must be certified as a family child care provider if that person provides care for 3 to 12 children who are not the person's own children or who are not residing in the person's home. This bill changes the threshold requiring certification as a family child care provider from caring for 3 children to caring for 6 children.