CS/HB 119 Summary

• Defines "advertise" to include marketing child care services through online boards, vehicle signs, newspapers, roadside signs, flyers, posters, radio, and television announcements.

• Expands the definition of "family day care home" to include homes that advertise availability of services regardless of whether they receive payment, fees, grants, or operate for profit.

• Requires family day care homes and large family child care homes to conspicuously display their license or registration, and mandates written plans identifying designated substitutes with screening and background checks for operators and household members.

• Prohibits persons from advertising child care facilities, family day care homes, or large family child care homes without including the facility's or home's license, registration, or exemption number in advertisements; violators commit a first-degree misdemeanor.

• Takes effect July 1, 2015.