Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB390 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 390
5	5	September 1, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives GOEBEN, HURD, BINSFELD,
6	6	BRANDTJEN, EDMING, GREEN, GUNDRUM, GUSTAFSON, MAGNAFICI, MAXEY,
7	7	MURPHY, O'CONNOR, PENTERMAN, PETERSEN, PETRYK, PLUMER, ROZAR, SCHMIDT,
8	8	SORTWELL, STEFFEN, SUMMERFIELD, SWEARINGEN and V ANDERMEER,
9	9	cosponsored by Senators BALLWEG and STROEBEL. Referred to Committee on
10	10	Children and Families.
11	11	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
12	12	AN ACT relating to: modifying administrative rules relating to assistant child
13	13	care teachers.
14	14	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
15	15	Under current law, the Department of Children and Families regulates child
16	16	care providers and is required to promulgate rules to carry out that function. Under
17	17	rules promulgated by DCF, a person hired to be an assistant child care teacher must
18	18	be at least 18 or 17 years old, depending on the qualifications the person meets. An
19	19	assistant child care teacher or school-age group leader who is at least 18 years old
20	20	and has completed the training required for the position may provide sole
21	21	supervision to a group of school-age children for up to 45 minutes if there is a
22	22	qualified school-age program leader or child care teacher on the premises, and an
23	23	assistant child care teacher may provide sole supervision to a group of children in
24	24	full-day centers for up to two hours during opening and closing hours and during the
25	25	center's designated naptime.
26	26	This bill modifies the DCF rules to lower the minimum age at which a person
27	27	may become an assistant child care teacher or school-age group leader from 17 to 16
28	28	and to lower the minimum age at which an assistant child care teacher or school-age
29	29	group leader may provide sole supervision to a group of children from 18 to 16. The
30	30	bill also removes the restrictions that a supervising assistant child care teacher may
31	31	provide sole supervision to a group of children in full-day centers only during
32	32	opening and closing hours and during the center's designated naptime and only for
33	33	up to two hours and that a supervising school-age group leader or assistant child
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38	38	care teacher may provide sole supervision to a group of school-age children only for
39	39	up to 45 minutes.
40	40	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
41	41	enact as follows:
42	42	SECTION 1. DCF 251.05 (3) (g) 2. a. of the administrative code is amended to
43	43	read:
44	44	DCF 251.05 (3) (g) 2. a. Be at least 18 16 years old and have satisfactorily
45	45	completed 2 credits in early childhood education or its equivalent within 6 months
46	46	after assuming the position.
47	47	SECTION 2. DCF 251.05 (3) (g) 2. b. of the administrative code is amended to
48	48	read:
49	49	DCF 251.05 (3) (g) 2. b. Be at least 18 16 years old and have satisfactorily
50	50	completed one, non-credit department-approved course in early childhood
51	51	education within 6 months after assuming the position.
52	52	SECTION 3. DCF 251.05 (3) (g) 2. c. of the administrative code is amended to
53	53	read:
54	54	DCF 251.05 (3) (g) 2. c. Be at least 17 16 years of age and have satisfactorily
55	55	completed an assistant child care teacher training program approved by the
56	56	Wisconsin department of public instruction, 2 credits in early childhood education
57	57	or its equivalent, or a noncredit department-approved course in early childhood
58	58	education.
59	59	SECTION 4. DCF 251.055 (1) (c) of the administrative code is amended to read:
60	60	DCF 251.055 (1) (c) Assistant child care teachers who are at least 18 16 years
61	61	of age and have completed the training required for the position may provide sole
62	62	supervision to a group of children in full-day centers for opening and closing hours,
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88	88	not to exceed the first 2 hours and the last 2 hours of center operation, and during
89	89	the center's designated naptime, not to exceed 2 hours.
90	90	SECTION 5. DCF 251.055 (1) (i) of the administrative code is amended to read:
91	91	DCF 251.055 (1) (i) No person under 18 16 years of age shall be left in sole
92	92	charge of a child.
93	93	SECTION 6. DCF 251.095 (2m) (d) of the administrative code is amended to read:
94	94	DCF 251.095 (2m) (d) Notwithstanding s. DCF 251.055 (1) (c), a school-age
95	95	group leader who has completed the training required under s. DCF 251.094 (5) (c)
96	96	3. or an assistant child care teacher who has completed the training required under
97	97	s. DCF 251.05 (3) (g) 2. and is age 18 16 or over may provide sole supervision for a
98	98	group of school-age children for no more than 45 minutes if there is a qualified
99	99	school-age program leader or child care teacher on the premises.
100	100	SECTION 7.0Effective date.
101	101	(1) Notwithstanding s. 227.265, this act takes effect on the day after
102	102	publication.
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