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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 23, 2023 09:02 AM |
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| From: | Representative Jose Giral |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Video Surveillance in Child Care Centers |
| Every week, news stories reveal the tragic consequences of a lack of child care center monitoring and oversight. To prevent such cases in Pennsylvania, the Department of Human Services (DHS) updated family child care home regulations in 2020 to allow the use of an electronic monitor, camera, or mirror to watch children when the operator needs to step away to prepare meals or take a restroom break. The change, however, only applies to family child care homes not child care centers and does not mandate video surveillance at all times. My legislation would require child care centers to install and maintain video camera surveillance systems. Regulations established by the department will not substitute current requirements for hands-on supervision. Instead, this policy will expand the tools available to child care center providers to facilitate the safe and supportive care of our children. We must do everything we can to maintain and strengthen the safety standards currently in place in this Commonwealth. Please join me in supporting this legislation. |
Introduced as HB820