"Adult" means a person 18 years of age or
older.
"Assistant" means a responsible person 14
years of age or older. The assistant may never be left alone with children.
Ultimate responsibility for supervision is with the child care provider.
"Child" means either of the
following:
1. A person 12 years of age or younger.
2. A person 13 years of age or older but younger than 19
years of age who has a developmental disability, as defined under the federal
Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000, Public
Law No. 106-402, codified in
42
U.S.C. 15002(8).
"Child care" means the care, supervision, or
guidance of a child by a person other than the child's parent, guardian, or
custodian for periods of less than 24 hours per day per child on a regular
basis. "Child care" shall not mean special activity programs that meet on a
regular basis such as music or dance classes, organized athletics or sports
programs, scouting programs, or hobby or craft classes or clubs.
"Child care facility" or
"facility" means a child care center, a preschool, or a
registered child development home.
"Child care home" means a person or program
providing child care to any of the following children at any one time that is
not registered to provide child care under this chapter, as authorized under
Iowa Code section
237A.3:
1. Five or fewer children.
2. Six or fewer children, if at least one of the children is
school-aged.
"Child development home" means a person or
program registered under this chapter that may provide child care to seven or
more children at any one time.
"Department" means the department of human
services.
"Involvement with child care" means licensed
or registered as a child care facility, employed in a child care facility,
residing in a child care facility, receiving public funding for providing child
care, providing child care as a child care home provider, or residing in a
child care home.
"Parent" means parent or legal
guardian.
"Person subject to an evaluation" means a
person who has committed a transgression and who is described by any of the
following:
1. The person is being considered for registration or is
registered.
2. The person is being considered by a child care facility
for employment involving direct responsibility for a child or with access to a
child when the child is alone, or the person is employed with such
responsibilities.
3. The person will reside or resides in a child care
facility.
4. The person has applied for or receives public funding for
providing child care.
5. The person will reside or resides in a child care home
that is not registered but that receives public funding for providing child
care.
"Provider" means the person or program that
applies for registration to provide child care and is approved as a child
development home.
"Registration" means the process by which
child care providers certify that they comply with rules adopted by the
department.
"Registration certificate" means the written
document issued by the department to publicly state that the provider has
certified in writing compliance with the minimum requirements for registration
of a child development home.
"School" means kindergarten or a higher
grade level.
"Transgression" means the existence of any
of the following in a person's record:
1. Conviction of a crime.
2. A record of having committed founded child or dependent
adult abuse.
3. Listing in the sex offender registry established under
Iowa Code chapter 692A.
4. A record of having committed a public or civil
offense.
5. Department revocation or denial of a child care facility
registration or license due to the person's continued or repeated failure to
operate the child care facility in compliance with licensing and registration
laws and rules.
