Senator Ted Harvey represents Colorado State Senate District 30 which includes: Northern Douglas County (Roxborough Park, Highlands Ranch, Lone...
Senate Democrats Oppose Safety and Affordability In Child Care Centers
February
17,
2012
A bill that would have put some common-sense criteria in place for regulations imposed by the Department of Human Services on child care centers was killed on a 5-3 party line vote this week.
The bill, which was heard in the Democrat controlled Health and Human Services Committee, would have also required day care center regulations to account for safety and affordability. One Democrat member of the Health and Human Services Committee questioned whether affordability should ever be considered when writing regulations.
“It is deeply disappointing that Democrats on the Health and Human Services Committee voted against a bill that reduces onerous regulations while ensuring safety and affordability in child care centers,” said Lundberg. “This kind of micromanagement will only drive up the cost of daycare, putting it out of reach to even more families.”
This past summer the Department of Human Services proposed rules that would have stipulated the number of crayons in the classroom, the race of dolls in the classroom along with many other rules that even Governor Hickenlooper and the Denver Post editors thought were unnecessary and went too far.
Senate Bill 138, introduced by Senator Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, would have helped keep the Department of Human Services from overreaching when creating rules applying to child care licensing standards. The bill would have also set up a process where only the Governor or General Assembly could initiate a review and rewrite the department’s regulations.
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The bill, which was heard in the Democrat controlled Health and Human Services Committee, would have also required day care center regulations to account for safety and affordability. One Democrat member of the Health and Human Services Committee questioned whether affordability should ever be considered when writing regulations.
“It is deeply disappointing that Democrats on the Health and Human Services Committee voted against a bill that reduces onerous regulations while ensuring safety and affordability in child care centers,” said Lundberg. “This kind of micromanagement will only drive up the cost of daycare, putting it out of reach to even more families.”
This past summer the Department of Human Services proposed rules that would have stipulated the number of crayons in the classroom, the race of dolls in the classroom along with many other rules that even Governor Hickenlooper and the Denver Post editors thought were unnecessary and went too far.
Senate Bill 138, introduced by Senator Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, would have helped keep the Department of Human Services from overreaching when creating rules applying to child care licensing standards. The bill would have also set up a process where only the Governor or General Assembly could initiate a review and rewrite the department’s regulations.
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