Bill Text: MI HB5879 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Children; child care; limitation on allowable hours per day a child can be left at a child care center, group child care home, or family child care home; provide for. Amends 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.111 - 722.128) by adding sec. 1b.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-10-22 - Printed Bill Filed 10/03/2014 [HB5879 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB5879-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5879

 

October 2, 2014, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors.

 

     A bill to amend 1973 PA 116, entitled

 

"An act to provide for the protection of children through the

licensing and regulation of child care organizations; to provide

for the establishment of standards of care for child care

organizations; to prescribe powers and duties of certain

departments of this state and adoption facilitators; to provide

penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"

 

(MCL 722.111 to 722.128) by adding section 1b.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1b. (1) A parent or guardian shall not leave a child in

 

the care of a child care center, group child care home, or family

 

child care home for a period longer than 11 consecutive hours at a

 

time.

 

     (2) The prohibition in subsection (1) does not apply to a

 

parent or guardian whose employer requires him or her to work for

 

more than an 11-hour period.