Florida Senate - 2023 SB 538 By Senator Trumbull 2-00561A-23 2023538__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to provisional child care licensing; 3 amending s. 402.309, F.S.; requiring a local licensing 4 agency or the Department of Children and Families to 5 issue a provisional license or registration for a 6 family day care home under certain circumstances; 7 providing an effective date. 8 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10 11 Section 1.Present subsections (3), (4), and (5) of section 12 402.309, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (4), 13 (5), and (6), respectively, and a new subsection (3) is added to 14 that section, to read: 15 402.309Provisional license or registration. 16 (3)A local licensing agency or the department, whichever 17 is authorized to license child care facilities in a county, must 18 issue a provisional license or registration for a family day 19 care home when the operator provides evidence of training 20 pursuant to United States Department of Defense Instruction 21 6060.02 and background screening by the United States Department 22 of Defense pursuant to 34 U.S.C. s. 20351 and 32 C.F.R. part 86. 23 Section 2.This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.