237A.4A - CHILD CARE REGULATORY FEE -- CHILD CARE FACILITY FUND.
237A.4A CHILD CARE REGULATORY FEE -- CHILD CARE
FACILITY FUND.
1. a. The department shall implement a regulatory fee for
licensure of child care facilities. The fee requirements shall
provide for tiered amounts based upon a child care facility's
capacity and a child development home's regulatory category at the
time of licensure.
b. The regulatory fee for centers shall not exceed one
hundred fifty dollars.
c. The regulatory fee for category "A" and "B" child
development homes shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars and the
fee for category "C" child development homes shall not exceed one
hundred eighty-seven dollars.
d. The department shall adopt rules for implementation of the
fee.
2. Regulatory fees collected shall augment existing funding for
regulation of child care facilities in order to phase in annual
inspections of child development homes and improve inspections of
child care centers. The department shall not supplant existing
funding for regulation of child care with funding derived from the
regulatory fee. The department shall seek to meet the following
target percentages of the total number of child development homes in
the state inspected annually in phasing in the annual inspection of
all child development homes:
a. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009, twenty
percent.
b. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, forty percent.
c. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, sixty percent.
d. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012, eighty
percent.
e. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, and succeeding
fiscal years, one hundred percent.
3. a. In phasing in the inspection of child development
homes, the department shall give priority to child development homes
that have recently become licensed and have paid the regulatory fee
implemented pursuant to this section.
b. The results of an inspection of a child care facility
shall be made publicly available on the internet page or site
implemented by the department in accordance with section 237A.25 and
through other means.
4. The target time frame for the department's issuance of the
report concerning an inspection or other regulatory visit to a child
care facility is sixty calendar days.
5. A child care facility fund is created in the state treasury
under the authority of the department. The fund is separate from the
general fund of the state. Regulatory fees collected under
subsection 1 shall be credited to the fund. Moneys credited to the
fund shall not revert to any other fund and are not subject to
transfer except as specifically provided by law. Notwithstanding
section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys deposited
in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund are
annually appropriated to the department to be used for staffing
dedicated to monitoring and regulation of child care facilities,
contracting, related technology costs, record checks, grants and fee
waivers, and other expenses for inspection and regulation of child
care facilities. Any full-time equivalent positions paid for out of
the fund shall be in addition to other such positions authorized for
the department. Section History: Recent Form
2009 Acts, ch 179, §208