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New locations for day care providers

Published (5/13/2011)
By Hank Long
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Family day care providers would be allowed to operate in commercial spaces, under a bill passed 116-10 by the House

May 10.

Sponsored by Rep. Jim Abeler (R-Anoka), HF912 would permit a family day care license holder to locate the program in a suitable commercial space, if the license holder is the primary provider of care; the program is in compliance with local zoning and fire code regulations; and the license holder prominently displays the license issued by the Department of Human Services. The license would include space capacity limitations determined by fire code and square footage of the commercial space.

The bill now goes to the Senate, where Sen. David Hann (R-Eden Prairie) is the sponsor.

Rep. Mark Buesgens (R-Jordan) opposed the bill due to an oral amendment Abeler successfully added on the House floor that inserted the word “suitable” into the bill. Buesgens said that by inserting the word the Legislature has given the commissioner ambiguous authority to determine the definition of a “suitable commercial space.”

“We have now turned a bill I would have supported into something fairly meaningless,” Buesgens said.

The provision is also in HF927, the omnibus health and human services finance bill.

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