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Missouri’s in-home day cares will have new capacity restrictions

July 12, 2019 By Alisa Nelson

Nathan Blecha

Gov. Mike Parson has signed into law restrictions involving how many kids can be watched at in-home day cares. The businesses will be limited to overseeing six kids with no more than three of them under the age of 2. A loophole previously allowed in-home day cares to supervise four kids, but an unlimited number of relatives.

Under House Bill 397, a wide-ranging child protection legislation, violators face a misdemeanor and fines. The provision was championed for ten years by State Sen. Jill Schupp, D-Creve Coeur.

The bill – called “Nathan’s Law” – is named after Nathan Blecha, an eastern Missouri boy who died from suffocation in 2007 at a Jefferson County in-home day care serving 10 children.

The new law takes effect August 28.

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