The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Rhode Island
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- DHS emergency child care licensing regulations (R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 42-12.5); EO 20-02
- Issued
- 2020-06-01 June 1, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-06-01
- End
- Companion CCAP addendum ran June 1 - Aug. 29, 2020; emergency licensing regulations continued into 2021 (read as 2020-08-29)
- In force
- June 1, 2020 to Aug. 29, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitSchools and child careWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all licensed child care centers and family child care providers
- Functions reached
- EC child care reopened only under approved plans, reduced group sizes and screening
- WF working parents' child care from March to June 2020
- CB
- Collection
- Rhode Island RI
Operative words
Rhode Island has authorized child care programs to reopen as of June 1, 2020 under new, emergency child care licensing regulations... All Child Care Center/Family Child Care providers must complete [a COVID-19 plan and receive Department approval before operating].
Enforcement
DHS licensing; plan approval required before operating (CCAP Provider Handbook Temporary Addendum, June 12, 2020: 'For providers who submit a COVID-19 plan to reopen, they must receive approval from the Department to begin operating')
Notes
The document records that licensed child care in Rhode Island was closed until June 1, 2020 and reopened only under emergency regulations (reduced group sizes, screening, plan approval).
Retrieval noteThe June 1, 2020 reopening under emergency regulations is verified from this DHS document. File date is the reopening date the plan states.