SB 18-201

Senate Bill 18-201 updates Colorado’s child care licensing rules for religious organizations. Currently, places like shopping centers can offer on-site child care for up to three hours without needing a license. The bill extends this exemption to religious groups but allows them to provide care for up to six hours if it happens during the time people are attending services or other programs at the organization. This change benefits religious organizations by giving them more flexibility in offering temporary childcare. Since the status is "signed," the bill has been approved and is now law, meaning religious organizations can start using this new exemption immediately.

Official Summary

Current law allows a child care licensing exemption for certain facilities, including shopping centers and churches, that provide on-site child care for children for less than 3 hours while people are making use of the facility or attending church services. The bill retains the 3-hour limit on the licensing exemption for facilities like shopping centers but increases the time limit for religious organizations to 6 hours, provided that the child care is being offered contemporaneously with services or other programs at the on-site child care location of the religious organization. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) Read More

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