Upcoming Policy Changes
The following rules will be effective as noted below. They have been through the entire rule making process and are no longer open for public comment or revisions. The rules are posted here for you to access prior to the rules being published and effective. When the rules are published to the eManuals website, they will no longer appear in this section.
eManuals will be updated with the following rule updates effective October 29, 2021:
Chapter 12 Child Care Center FYR 1 Rules
Chapter 12 Child Care Center FYR 2 Rules
Chapter 13 Family Child Care FYR 1 Rules
Chapter 13 Family Child Care FYR 2 Rules
Chapter 14 In-Home Aide Rules
Chapter 18 Child Care Day Camp Rules
Rules
The emanuals website contains all rules, forms, procedure and manual letters. To receive email notifications for rule and policy updates published to the eManuals site click here.
Click on the chapter name to go directly to the following rules.
For an overview of topics in the Child Care Center rules manual, please refer to this table of contents.
For an overview of topics in the Family Child Care Center rules manual, please refer to this table of contents.
Before a rule becomes effective it must go through a clearance process and a public hearing.
The following links are updated often:
Child Care Clearance Items
Proposed Rules and Public Hearing Notices
Click here to register to receive Clearance notifications for ODJFS
Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review (JCARR)
Rule-Making Process Overview
Guide to Public Participation in the Rule-Making Process
Child Care Forms
The most recent version of all ODJFS Forms referenced in
Chapters 12 through 18, can be accessed through Forms Central.