EOB: Senate OKs Day-Care Regs

The day-care licensing bill, SB 1112a, has passed the Senate on a strong 30-5 vote. Sen. Tim Corder, R-Mountain Home, gave an impassioned 40-minute opening debate, in which he said, “It’s not our policy to interfere in family  business, but it is our policy to be providing safe businesses that families will use.” Idaho currently requires no criminal background checks, no smoke detectors, no minimum staffing requirements, or anything else for small day-care operators; it licenses only those with 13 or more unrelated children. Idaho ranks last in the nation for its oversight of child care/ Betsy Russell , Eye On Boise. More here .

• Compromise reached on ed legislation
• Dems: ‘Doesn’t make sense to us’
• ‘I didn’t see it putting people to work’
• Otter: ‘We’re going to wait and see’
• ‘We’ll find middle ground’
• ‘Soften the blow’
• No GARVEE, no Dover Bridge