Bill Text: CA AB2370 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Lead exposure: child day care facilities: family day care homes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 676, Statutes of 2018. [AB2370 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB2370-Amended.html

Amended  IN  Assembly  April 05, 2018
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 02, 2018
Amended  IN  Assembly  March 12, 2018

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill No. 2370


Introduced by Assembly Member Holden

February 14, 2018


An act to amend Section 8278.3 of the Education Code, and to amend Section 1596.866 of, and to add Sections 1596.7996 and 116278 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to lead exposure.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2370, as amended, Holden. Lead exposure: child day care facilities: family day care homes.
(1) Under existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, the State Department of Social Services licenses and regulates child day care facilities, as defined, and family day care home licensees. The act requires that, as a condition of licensure and in addition to any other required training, at least one director or teacher at each day care center, and each family day care home licensee who provides care, have at least 15 hours of health and safety training, covering specified components. A willful or repeated violation of the act is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by imprisonment in county jail for a period not to exceed 180 days, or by both the fine and imprisonment, and a serious violation of the act is subject to daily civil penalties, as specified.
This bill would additionally require, as a condition of licensure, the health and safety training include instruction in the prevention of lead exposure. The bill, for a license issued before January 1, 2019, would give the licensee 90 days to comply with these provisions. This bill would require a licensed child day care facility, upon enrolling a child, to request that the child’s parent or guardian provide the facility with documentation demonstrating that the child had received a blood lead screening test. The bill would require the child day care facility to provide a parent or guardian who does not provide the documentation with information on the risks and effects of lead exposure and certain information about the availability of blood lead screening tests. blood lead testing recommendations and requirements. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would prohibit a parent or guardian’s failure to provide a blood lead screening test from preventing the child’s enrollment in the child day care facility.
(2) Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health, including, but not limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration programs relating to the provision of a dependable, safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, adopting implementing regulations, and conducting studies and investigations to assess the quality of water in private domestic water supplies. Under the act, making a false statement or representation in a report submitted under the act is a crime.
This bill, on or before July 1, 2020, would require the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the state board, to adopt regulations for the testing of drinking water at licensed child care centers to ensure that the drinking water is lead free. The bill would require that the regulations include, among other things, a requirement that the drinking water testing results shall be submitted to the state board within 3 months of testing, and timelines by which the state board shall transmit the testing data to the State Department of Social Services. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(3) Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, has a purpose of providing a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through full- and part-time programs. Existing law establishes the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund in the State Treasury to provide funding for loans for the renovation, repair, or improvement of an existing building to make the building suitable for licensure for child care and development services, and for the purchase of new relocatable child care facilities for the lease to local educational agencies and contracting agencies that provide child care and development services.
This bill would specify that a licensed child day care center is eligible to apply for, and receive, loan funding pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require a licensed child day care center that receives loan funding pursuant to these provisions to demonstrate both a financial need and a lack of reasonable alternative funding sources.
(4) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 8278.3 of the Education Code is amended to read:

8278.3.
 (a) (1) The Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury to provide funding for loans for the renovation, repair, or improvement of an existing building to make the building suitable for licensure for child care and development services, and for the purchase of new relocatable child care facilities for lease to local educational agencies and contracting agencies that provide child care and development services, pursuant to this chapter. The Superintendent may transfer state funds appropriated for child care facilities into this fund for allocation to local educational agencies and contracting agencies, as specified, for the purchase, transportation, and installation of facilities for replacement and expansion of capacity. Local educational agencies and contracting agencies using facilities purchased by the use of these funds shall be charged a leasing fee, either at a fair market value for those facilities or at an amount sufficient to amortize the cost of purchase and relocation, whichever amount is lower, over a 10-year period. Upon full repayment of the purchase and relocation costs, title shall transfer from the State of California to the local educational agency or contracting agency. Loans for renovation or repair shall be repaid within a period that does not exceed 10 years. The Superintendent shall deposit all revenue derived from the lease payments or renovation or repair loan repayments into the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund.
(2) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all moneys in the fund, including moneys deposited from lease payments or loan repayments, are continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the Superintendent for expenditure pursuant to this article.
(3) Augmentations to the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund made in the Budget Act of 2014 shall be used for loans for renovation or repair of existing local educational agency facilities to ensure those facilities meet applicable health and safety standards or the purchase of new relocatable child care facilities for lease to local educational agencies, for the purpose of expanding access to California state preschool program services pursuant to this chapter.
(b) On or before August 1 of each fiscal year, the Superintendent shall submit to the Department of Finance and the Legislative Analyst’s Office a report detailing the number of funding requests received and their purpose, the types of agencies that received funding from the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund, the increased capacity that these facilities generated, a description of the manner in which the facilities are being used, and a projection of the lease payments and loan repayments collected and the funds available for future use.
(c) A local educational agency that provides child care pursuant to the California School Age Families Education Program (Article 7.1 (commencing with Section 54740) of Chapter 9 of Part 29 of Division 4 of Title 2) is eligible to apply for and receive funding pursuant to this section.
(d) A licensed child day care center, as defined in Section 1596.76 of the Health and Safety Code, is eligible to apply for, and receive, loan funding pursuant to this section to remediate lead contamination at its facility and to pay for drinking water system improvements that are necessary to ensure that the facility’s drinking water is lead free. free, as determined by the regulations established by the State Department of Social Services, pursuant to Section 116278 of the Health and Safety Code. A licensed child day care center that receives loan funding pursuant to this section shall demonstrate both a financial need and a lack of reasonable alternative funding sources.

SEC. 2.

 Section 1596.7996 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

1596.7996.
 (a) A licensed child day care facility, upon enrolling a child, shall request that the child’s parent or guardian provide the child day care facility with documentation demonstrating that the enrolling child has received a blood lead screening test.
(b) If a parent or guardian does not provide the child day care facility with documentation that the child received a blood lead screening test, the child day care facility shall provide the parent or guardian with all of the following information: information on both of the following:
(1) Risks and effects of lead exposure.

(2)Information on providers of blood lead screening tests and their locations.

(2) Blood lead testing recommendations and requirements.
(c) Failure of a parent or guardian to comply with subdivision (a) shall not prevent the child day care facility from enrolling the child.
(d) For purposes of this section, “child day care facility” has the same meaning as in Section 1596.750.

SEC. 3.

 Section 1596.866 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

1596.866.
 (a) (1) In addition to other required training, at least one director or teacher at each day care center, and each family day care home licensee who provides care, shall have at least 15 hours of health and safety training, and if applicable, at least one additional hour of training pursuant to clause (ii) of subparagraph (C) of paragraph (2).
(2) The training shall include the following components:
(A) Pediatric first aid.
(B) Pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
(C) (i) A preventive health practices course or courses that include instruction in the recognition, management, and prevention of infectious diseases, including immunizations, and prevention of childhood injuries.
(ii) For licenses issued on or after January 1, 2016, at least one director or teacher at each day care center, and each family day care home licensee who provides care, shall have at least one hour of childhood nutrition training as part of the preventive health practices course or courses.
(D) (i) Instruction in the prevention of lead exposure.
(ii) For licenses issued before January 1, 2019, the licensee shall have until April 1, 2019, to comply with this subparagraph, after which, if the licensee is not in compliance with this subparagraph, notwithstanding the provisional licensing provisions described in subdivision (c), the department may revoke the license.
(3) The training may include instruction in sanitary food handling, emergency preparedness and evacuation, and caring for children with special needs.
(b) Day care center directors and licensees of family day care homes shall ensure that at least one staff member who has a current course completion card in pediatric first aid and pediatric CPR issued by the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, or by a training program that has been approved by the Emergency Medical Services Authority pursuant to this section and Section 1797.191 shall be onsite at all times when children are present at the facility, and shall be present with the children when children are offsite from the facility for facility activities. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to require, in the event of an emergency, additional staff members, who are onsite when children are present at the facility, to have a current course completion card in pediatric first aid and pediatric CPR.
(c) (1) The completion of health and safety training by all personnel and licensees described in subdivision (a) shall be a condition of licensure.
(2) Training in pediatric first aid and pediatric CPR by persons described in subdivisions (a) and (b) shall be current at all times. Training in preventive health practices as described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) is a one-time only requirement for persons described in subdivision (a).
(3) The department shall issue a provisional license for otherwise qualified applicants who are not in compliance with this section. This provisional license shall expire 90 days after the date of issuance and shall not be extended.
(4) A notice of deficiency shall be issued by the department at the time of a site visit to a licensee who is not in compliance with this section. The licensee shall, at the time the notice is issued, develop a plan of correction to correct the deficiency within 90 days of receiving the notice. The facility’s license may be revoked if it fails to correct the deficiency within the 90-day period. Section 1596.890 shall not apply to this paragraph.
(d) Completion of the training required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) shall be demonstrated, upon request of the licensing agency, by the following:
(1) Current pediatric first aid and pediatric CPR course completion cards issued by the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, or by a training program approved by the Emergency Medical Services Authority pursuant to Section 1797.191.
(2) (A) A course completion card for a preventive health practices course or courses as described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) issued by a training program approved by the Emergency Medical Services Authority pursuant to Section 1797.191.
(B) Persons who, before September 21, 1998, have completed a course or courses in preventive health practices as described in clause (i) of subparagraph (C) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), and have a certificate of completion of a course or courses in preventive health practices, or certified copies of transcripts that identify the number of hours and the specific course or courses taken for training in preventive health practices, shall be deemed to have met the training in preventive health practices.
(3) In addition to training programs specified in paragraphs (1) and (2), training programs or courses in pediatric first aid, pediatric CPR, and preventive health practices offered or approved by an accredited college or university are considered to be approved sources of training that may be used to satisfy the training requirements of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a). Completion of this training shall be demonstrated to the licensing agency by a certificate of course completion, course completion cards, or certified copies of transcripts that identify the number of hours and the specified course or courses taken for the training as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a).
(e) The training required under subdivision (a) shall not be provided by a home study course. This training may be provided through in-service training, workshops, or classes.
(f) All personnel and licensees described in subdivisions (a) and (b) shall maintain current course completion cards for pediatric first aid and pediatric CPR issued by the American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, or by a training program approved by the Emergency Medical Services Authority pursuant to Section 1797.191, or shall have current certification in pediatric first aid and pediatric CPR from an accredited college or university in accordance with paragraph (3) of subdivision (d).
(g) The department shall have the authority to grant exceptions to the requirements imposed by this section in order to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 12101 et seq.).
(h) The department shall adopt regulations to implement this section.

SEC. 4.

 Section 116278 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

116278.
 (a) On or before July 1, 2020, the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the state board, shall adopt regulations for the testing of drinking water at licensed child care centers to ensure that the drinking water is lead free. The regulations shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(1) A requirement that a licensed child care center shall provide potable, noncontaminated drinking water to children in its care.
(2) A requirement that initial testing of drinking water at a licensed child care center shall be performed by January 1, 2022, and that periodic testing is performed every five years thereafter.
(3) A requirement that the drinking water testing results shall be submitted to the State Department of Social Services within three months of testing. state board within three months of testing, and timelines by which the state board shall transmit the testing data to the State Department of Social Services.
(4) A fair and reasonable enforcement mechanism.
(5) Parental notification requirements.
(b) As used in this section, “noncontaminated drinking water” means, among other qualifications as determined by the State Department of Social Services, Services and the state board, drinking water that is lead free.

SEC. 5.

 No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
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