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Encouraging the Executive Board of the Legislature to establish a taskforce to study the availability of childcare.

HCR6010 is a resolution asking the Legislature's Executive Board to create a taskforce that will study childcare availability issues in South Dakota. The resolution does not change any existing state law—instead, it encourages leadership to investigate the childcare situation and presumably report back on findings.

provide staffing ratios for day care providers.

HB1161 establishes new staffing requirements for South Dakota day care providers by setting specific adult-to-child ratios based on children's ages, ranging from one adult per five infants under 18 months to one adult per fifteen children age six and older. For mixed-age groups, day care centers must follow the ratio for whichever age group makes up the majority, except when children under three are present—then they must maintain the stricter ratio for younger children.