Chapter 142B — Rules

142B.01 Definitions This section defines key terms used throughout Chapter 142B, which governs child care and foster care licensing in … 142B.02 Rules This section gives the commissioner of children, youth, and families the power to create rules for child care and foster … 142B.03 Systems and Records This section requires licensed child care and foster care programs to keep records for at least five years. Programs … 142B.05 Who Must Be Licensed This section says that anyone running a child care or foster care program in Minnesota must have a license from the … 142B.06 Unlicensed Emergency Relative Placement This section allows a county agency to place a child with a relative who does not yet have a foster care license in an … 142B.10 Application Procedures This section explains how to apply for a child care or foster care license in Minnesota. Applicants must fill out forms, … 142B.11 License Application After Change of Ownership This section explains what happens when a licensed child care or foster care program changes ownership. A license cannot … 142B.12 Fees This section sets the fees for child care and foster care licensing. The initial application fee is $500. Annual license … 142B.15 Denial of Application This section lists the reasons the commissioner can deny a child care or foster care license application. Reasons … 142B.16 Correction Order and Conditional License This section allows the commissioner to issue a correction order or make a license conditional when a child care or … 142B.17 Child Care Fix-it Ticket This section creates a 'fix-it ticket' for minor child care violations. Instead of a correction order, a provider can … 142B.171 Child Care Weighted Risk System This section requires the commissioner to create a weighted risk system that ranks child care violations by how serious … 142B.18 Sanctions This section lists the sanctions the commissioner can impose on child care and foster care license holders, including … 142B.19 Disqualified Individual; Denial, Conditional License, Revocation This section allows the commissioner to deny, make conditional, or revoke a license when a disqualified individual is … 142B.20 Hearings This section describes the hearing process for license holders who appeal licensing sanctions, denials, or … 142B.21 Settlement Agreement This section allows a license holder who has appealed a licensing sanction to try to reach a settlement agreement with … 142B.22 Consolidation of Hearings; Reconsideration This section requires hearings under Chapter 142B to be combined with related hearings under other statutes whenever it … 142B.25 Closing a License This section lets the commissioner close a license if the licensed program has not served any clients for 12 months or … 142B.30 Standards for County Agencies and Private Agencies This section sets out the rules for county and private agencies that perform licensing functions on behalf of the … 142B.31 Public Funds Program Integrity Monitoring This section says that licensed programs receiving public funding must follow enrollment requirements as part of their … 142B.40 Special Conditions for Residential Programs This section protects small residential programs from being blocked by zoning laws. Programs with six or fewer residents … 142B.41 Special Conditions for Nonresidential Programs This section sets special zoning and licensing rules for nonresidential child care programs. Programs serving 12 or … 142B.42 Voluntary Receivership for Residential or Nonresidential Programs This section allows a license holder to voluntarily request a receiver to take over operation of a residential or … 142B.43 Involuntary Receivership for Residential or Nonresidential Programs This section allows the commissioner to ask a court to appoint a receiver to take over a licensed program without the … 142B.44 Fire Marshal Inspection This section says that fire marshal inspections required for licensing can be done by a local fire code inspector … 142B.45 Crib Safety Requirements This section requires all licensed child care programs and children's residential facilities to keep records of every … 142B.46 Reduction of Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in Licensed Programs This section sets safe sleep rules for infants in licensed programs. Infants must be placed on their backs in a crib … 142B.47 Training on Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death and Abusive Head Trauma for Child Foster Care Providers This section requires child foster care providers who care for infants or children up to age five to complete training … 142B.48 Dangers of Shaking Infants and Young Children This section requires the commissioner to make available a video about the dangers of shaking infants and young children … 142B.49 Care of Individuals on Medical Monitoring Equipment This section requires foster care agencies and providers to make sure a foster care provider is trained on how to … 142B.50 Disclosure of Communicable Disease This section requires county agencies, private child-placing agencies, and individuals placing children in licensed … 142B.51 Child Passenger Restraint Systems This section requires all child care and foster care license holders to follow seat belt and child passenger restraint … 142B.52 Prone Restraint Prohibition This section requires all programs licensed under chapter 142B to follow the prone restraint prohibition rules in … 142B.53 Mandatory Reporting This section requires anyone who performs child care licensing work under chapter 142B — including county employees who … 142B.54 Requirements; Maltreatment of Minors or Vulnerable Adults This section requires child care license holders (except home-based and family foster care) to conduct an internal … 142B.60 Information for Child Care License Holders This section requires the commissioner to promptly inform family child care and child care center license holders about … 142B.61 Child Care Program Reporting Notification This section requires the Department of Children, Youth, and Families to create plain-language policies and procedures … 142B.62 Child Care License Holder Insurance This section requires child care license holders to tell parents in writing before a child is enrolled whether the … 142B.63 Positive Support Strategies; Child Care This section sets rules for child care programs that serve children with developmental disabilities or related … 142B.65 Child Care Center Training Requirements This section sets detailed training requirements for directors, staff, substitutes, and volunteers at licensed child … 142B.66 Child Care Center Health and Safety Requirements This section sets health and safety requirements for licensed child care centers, covering four main areas: allergy … 142B.67 Child Care Center Hiring Practices This section allows a child care center to have a prospective employee observe and interact with children in the … 142B.68 Video Security Cameras in Child Care Centers This section, effective July 1, 2026, requires licensed child care centers to install video security cameras in infant … 142B.70 Family Child Care Training Requirements This section sets training requirements for family and group family child care license holders, second adult caregivers, … 142B.71 Family Child Care Health and Safety Requirements This section sets health and safety requirements for licensed family child care providers, covering allergy prevention … 142B.72 Family Child Care Physical Space Requirements This section sets physical safety requirements for homes licensed as family child care programs, including rules for … 142B.74 Substitute Caregivers and Replacements in Family Child Care This section limits the use of substitute caregivers in family child care programs to no more than 500 hours per year … 142B.75 Family Child Care Infant Sleep Supervision Requirements This section encourages family child care providers who care for infants to check on each sleeping infant in person … 142B.76 Family Child Care Diapering Area Disinfection This section allows family child care providers to disinfect diaper changing surfaces using either chlorine bleach … 142B.77 Supervision of Family Child Care License Holder's Own Child This section allows a relative or reported household member of a family child care license holder to be present in the … 142B.78 Regulation of Family Day Care by Local Government This section limits the ability of local governments — cities, counties, and townships — to impose additional … 142B.79 Contractors Serving Multiple Family Child Care License Holders This section allows contractors who work with multiple family child care license holders — such as drivers, cooks, or … 142B.80 Child Foster Care Training Requirement; Mental Health Training; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Training This section requires child foster care license holders and caregivers in family and treatment foster care homes to … 142B.81 Child Foster Care Training; Relative Caregivers This section reduces the annual in-service training requirement for child foster care license holders who are related to …