Florida SB 1690: Child Care and Early Learning Services

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1690 
Child Care and Early Learning Services 
2026-03-17T11:50:58Z 
Revising the information on child care required to be disseminated electronically to the community; deleting the requirement that family child care homes and large family child care homes, respectively, provide specified information to parents each year; requiring that certain child care facilities exempt from licensure requirements meet certain minimum requirements; prohibiting residential property insurance policies from providing coverage for liability for claims arising out of, or in connection with, the operations of large family child care homes, etc. 
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 2 An act relating to child care and early learning 
 3 services; amending s. 402.306, F.S.; revising the 
 4 information on child care required to be disseminated 
 5 electronically to the community; amending ss. 402.313 
 6 and 402.3131, F.S.; deleting the requirement that 
 7 family child care homes and large family child care 
 8 homes, respectively, provide specified information to 
 9 parents each year; conforming provisions to changes 
 10 made by the act; amending s. 402.316, F.S.; requiring 
 11 that certain child care facilities exempt from 
 12 licensure requirements meet certain minimum 
 13 requirements; providing that failure to meet such 
 14 minimum requirements results in the loss of the 
 15 exemption from licensure; requiring a child care 
 16 facility exempt from licensure requirements to include 
 17 a specified statement on its website and in its 
 18 promotional materials and facility-created documents 
 19 and forms provided to families served by the child 
 20 care facility; amending s. 627.70161, F.S.; changing 
 21 the term “family day care home” to “family child care 
 22 home”; providing legislative findings and intent 
 23 relating to large family child care homes; defining 
 24 the term “large family child care home”; prohibiting 
 25 residential property insurance policies from providing 
 26 coverage for liability for claims arising out of, or 
 27 in connection with, the operations of large family 
 28 child care homes; providing that insurers are under no 
 29 obligation to defend against lawsuits covering such 
 30 claims; providing exceptions; prohibiting insurers 
 31 from denying, cancelling, or refusing to renew a 
 32 policy for residential property insurance on the basis 
 33 that the policyholders or applicants operate large 
 34 family child care homes; providing exceptions; 
 35 amending s. 1001.24, F.S.; revising the definition of 
 36 the term “Department of Education direct-support 
 37 organization”; creating s. 1002.821, F.S.; creating 
 38 the Florida Child Care Fund for a specified purpose; 
 39 requiring a Department of Education direct-support 
 40 organization to administer the fund; requiring funds 
 41 to be deposited into the Early Learning Fund; 
 42 requiring legislative appropriations from the Child 
 43 Care and Development Block Grant Trust Fund to be 
 44 deposited into the Early Learning Fund; requiring that 
 45 funds from state sources and interest earnings be 
 46 accounted for separately; specifying uses for such 
 47 funds; beginning on a specified date, requiring the 
 48 Division of Early Learning to prepare, and the 
 49 Department of Education to publish on its website, an 
 50 annual report on the performance of the fund; 
 51 specifying requirements for the reports; amending s. 
 52 1002.95, F.S.; requiring the administrator of the 
 53 Teacher Education and Compensation Helps Scholarship 
 54 Program, subject to an appropriation, to establish and 
 55 administer the Center for Early Childhood Professional 
 56 Recognition for a specified purpose; amending ss. 
 57 39.202, 125.0109, 166.0445, 212.08, 402.302, 402.305, 
 58 402.309, 402.310, 402.3115, 402.312, 402.315, 402.318, 
 59 402.319, 409.988, 411.203, 1002.55, 1002.82, 1002.83, 
 60 1002.84, 1002.88, 1002.895, 1002.92, 1002.93, and 
 61 1002.945, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made 
 62 by the act; providing an effective date. 
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 64 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 66 Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 402.306, Florida 
 67 Statutes, is amended to read: 
 68 402.306 Designation of licensing agency; dissemination by 
 69 the department and local licensing agency of information on 
 70 child care.— 
 71 (3) The department and local licensing agencies, or the 
 72 designees thereof, shall be responsible for coordination and 
 73 dissemination of information on child care to the community and 
 74 shall make available through electronic means all licensing 
 75 standards and procedures, health and safety standards for school 
 76 readiness providers, monitoring and inspection reports, and the 
 77 names and addresses of licensed child care facilities, school