Iowa Code § 237.4: License required — exceptions.

An individual or an agency shall not provide child foster care unless the individual or agency is a licensee. However, a license under this chapter is not required of the following:

1. An individual providing child foster care for a total of not more than twenty days in one calendar year.

2. A residential care facility licensed under chapter 135C which is approved for the care of children.

3. A hospital licensed under chapter 135B.

4. A health care facility licensed under chapter 135C.

5. A juvenile detention home or juvenile shelter care home approved under section 232.142.

6. An institution listed in section 218.1.

7. A facility licensed under chapter 125.

8. An individual providing child care as a babysitter at the request of a parent, guardian, fictive kin, or relative having lawful custody of the child.