Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, Public Health Department, Environmental Health Division

Child Care License (Family Child Care Home or Child Care Facility)

The UG's own program page states its role directly: its licensing specialists complete all child care inspections in Wyandotte County — initial, annual and complaint investigations — and run the orientations and consultations for new providers, while the license itself is the state's. That page still names KDHE as the licensing agency, but the state program moved on 1 July 2026: 2025 House Bill 2045 created the Kansas Office of Early Childhood, transferred KDHE's day care licensing powers to it, and from that date makes it unlawful to run a day care facility without a license or temporary permit from the Office's director; the Kansas Legislative Research Department confirms that as of 1 July 2026 these services are all operated by the Office, which may contract inspections out to local health departments. The state itself charges no annual license fee for a day care facility: K.S.A. 65-505(a)(2), as amended by the same act, provides that there shall be no annual fee for a license to conduct a child care facility, and the act's new fee section, in force from 1 July 2026, carries that rule into the Office while keeping only a late-renewal fee ($75 or the renewal fee, whichever is greater) and an amended-license fee capped at $35. The capacity-banded figures above are therefore the UG's own charges as priced in its 2026 fee schedule (its 2022 edition priced the same bands at $110-$335), not a state fee passed through. The program page's own fee tab lists only the $15 and $30 orientation fees, not the license bands, so a new provider should confirm the license charge with the Health Department at (913) 573-6702 before budgeting. A childcare business caring for six or more children separately owes the Occupation Tax's own 'Child Care, 6+ children' category at $193/year, a distinct UG fee on top of this license rather than a duplicate of it.