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Read. Follow. Verify.Minnesota House Bill 628 Modifies Child Care Licensing Standards, Staff Ratios, and Director Qualifications
Last action · February 13, 2025: Introduction and first reading, referred to Children and Families Finance and PolicySponsor: Paul Torkelson
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What This Bill Proposed
Minnesota House Bill 628 updates child care center licensing standards by redefining staff roles, modifying director education and experience requirements across nine distinct qualification tiers, setting standard staff-to-child ratios and group sizes, and directing state agencies to streamline facility health and recordkeeping rules.
Child care centers statewide must adjust their staffing models, facility heating minimums, recordkeeping mandates, and director credentialing pathways to comply with the revised state licensing framework.
- House File 628 was introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives during the 94th legislative session and referred to the Children and Families Finance and Policy committee. context
- Minnesota child care licensing standards govern staff-to-child ratios, group sizes, and staff credentialing requirements across licensed centers in the state. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
child care centers
Licensed child care centers must comply with updated director qualification tiers, staff-to-child ratios, group size limits, and revised health and recordkeeping rules.
child care staff and substitutes
Staff members, substitutes, and volunteers are subject to revised minimum age requirements, training mandates, background check rules, and supervision standards.
children in licensed care
Children experience modified group sizing rules, age-category mixing allowances, and staff-to-child supervision ratios.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the minimum age and training requirements for a child care center substitute?
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What changes are made to child care facility temperature requirements?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Feb 13, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduction and first reading, referred to Children and Families Finance and Policy
Version history
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Comprehensive Overhaul of Child Care Rules
The legislation repeals multiple existing administrative rule parts (9503.0031 to 9503.0040) while codifying new statutory standards for staff qualifications and ratios.
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www.revisor.mn.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy25Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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