Does Your State Do This?

[Former Teacher]

I was reading about a home daycare's policies. It stated that if a parent failed to sign the login book, the provider is fined $75.00. Which in turn the parent would be charged the following month.

I remember years ago, TX tried to pass a law about that. They were going to charge daycares so much per violation. That law never passed.

Does your state charge you for any violations? If so, for what and how much?

Just curious

[safechner]

I have no idea but I am so GLAD tx hasn't passed the law, .

[QualiTcare]

i dunno about law - but i know at a center i used to work at, we had a huge issue with parents not signing kids in. we had a group of 40 school agers - and there were 2 parents in particular that would drop their kids off and not even come in!

it was a huge issue cus we had to do attendance every thirty minutes and suddenly i'd see a kid that i never knew came in. we would talk to them about it, but if they were running late - they'd do it again...and again...
we would've gotten in huge trouble if licensing came in and that one kid was unaccounted for and i was over ratio.

so maybe it's just a policy and not a law?

[gbcc]

In NY we have to keep daily attendence or have parents sign in. After the first warning we can be charged anywhere from $250 - $500.

[boysx5]

we just starting having to have the parents sign in I don't chase parents out the door if they didn't sign in

[daysofelijah]

We don't even have to have a sign in or keep attendence as far as I know. MN

[Abigail]

Were the fines possibly from temporarily being over the limit if a child wasn't accounted for? Even if someone is not over the limit but the provider said accidentally she only had six when she actually had seven or even only five at the time she could be fined I think.

[Former Teacher]

Were the fines possibly from temporarily being over the limit if a child wasn't accounted for? Even if someone is not over the limit but the provider said accidentally she only had six when she actually had seven or even only five at the time she could be fined I think.

I don't know Abigail but the law that TX didn't pass was for all centers I believe. I worked at a licensed childcare center for 55 kids and it would have affected us had that law passed.

[MarinaVanessa]

I live in CA and licensing has never said anything about us having to sign the kids in. I do it anyway because it helps me keep track of who comes in at what time and I can log the meals etc. but as far as I know, we aren't required to have them sign in.

[Abigail]

I know we're not required, but we're recommended to do so incase we need proof as to when a child was or was not in care if something ever occurs. It might not even be daycare business related, it could be something where the child got hurt one day when they were at a relatives house or something and they had a contract with you stating their child is there every day of the week or something and try to blame it on you. If you keep a record, then it can hold up in court saving lots of "he said, she said" stuff.