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You are receiving this email because you are the authorized agent for a licensed child care center or subscribed to the child care center listserv.
New laws passed by the 2025 Legislature include several provisions that impact licensed child care centers. This email outlines changes that will become effective July 1, 2025. Other changes have different effective dates. Licensing will share a full implementation plan outlining all of the legislative changes later this summer.
The hyperlinks within this document direct centers to where the new law can be found. When reviewing the new law:
- Text that is stricken with a line through it reflects words that are being removed from the law.
- Text that is underlined reflects words that are being added to the law.
- Text that is unchanged reflects what the law was before and continues to be the law.
Later this year, the Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes will update the statute sections on their website to reflect the new laws.
Staff distribution
In 2023, the legislature passed language to allow additional staff distribution flexibility during morning arrival and afternoon departure times. This language was set to expire on July 1, 2025; however, the 2025 legislature has added the language to statute (Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.41, subd. 14), without an expiration date. An aide may substitute for a teacher during the morning arrival or afternoon departure time if the total arrival and departure time does not exceed 25 percent of the center's daily hours of operation. The aide must be at least 18 years old, have worked in the center for at least 30 days, and have completed all of their orientation training and all training that is required under section 142B.65 within the first 90 days of employment.
See MN Laws, Chapter 3, Article 14, Section 8.
Effective date: July 1, 2025
Maltreatment order postings
If a center receives an order of conditional license, license suspension, temporary immediate suspension, fine, or revocation that is accompanied by a maltreatment investigation memorandum, both the order and the maltreatment investigation memorandum must be posted in a conspicuous place in the facility for four years. The previous posting requirement was two years.
See MN Laws, Chapter 3, Article 14, Sections 4 and 6.
Effective date: July 1, 2025 (Applies to orders issued on or after July 1, 2025)
In-service training
In order to meet federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) requirements, language was added to the in-service training statute (Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.65, subd. 9) specifying that substitutes and unsupervised volunteers must complete a minimum of two hours of in-service training each calendar year. There is no change to the training topics or frequency. Beginning July 1, 2025, you will need to note the length of the training for substitutes and unsupervised volunteers to ensure the two hour minimum has been met.
See MN Laws, Chapter 3, Article 14, Section 11.
Effective date: July 1, 2025
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