Bill Text: CA AB2621 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Child day care facilities: licensing information.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-19 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 474, Statutes of 2014. [AB2621 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2621-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2621	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  474
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 13, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Garcia and Olsen
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Eggman, Beth Gaines, and Waldron)
   (Coauthor: Senator Fuller)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 1596.819 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to child day care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2621, Garcia. Child day care facilities: licensing information.

   Under the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, the State
Department of Social Services licenses and regulates child day care
facilities. Existing law requires the department, when it conducts a
site visit of a licensed child day care facility, to publicly post at
the facility a notice that indicates whether the facility was cited
for violating any state standards or regulations. Existing law also
requires each licensed child day care facility to make accessible to
the public a copy of any licensing report or other public licensing
document that documents a facility visit, a substantiated complaint
investigation, a conference with a local licensing agency management
representative and the licensee in which issues of noncompliance are
discussed, or a copy of an accusation indicating the department's
intent to revoke the facility's license.
   This bill would require the department to post licensing
information on its Internet Web site for child day care facilities,
including, among other things, the number of citations, substantiated
and inconclusive complaint inspections, and noncomplaint inspections
during the preceding 5-year period. The bill would require the
department to update this information on at least a monthly basis.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1596.819 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, to read:
   1596.819.  (a) Except as otherwise prohibited by law, the
department shall post licensing information on its Internet Web site
as follows:
   (1) For each child day care facility as defined in Section
1596.750, except family day care homes, the information shall
include, but is not limited to, the name and address of the facility,
the licensed capacity of the facility, the status of the license,
and the number of site visits, including the number of citations,
substantiated and inconclusive complaint inspections, and
noncomplaint inspections during the preceding five-year period.
   (2) For each family day care home, the information shall include,
but is not limited to, the name of the home, the status of the
license, and the number of site visits, including the number of
citations, substantiated and inconclusive complaint inspections, and
noncomplaint inspections during the preceding five-year period.
   (b) The department shall update the information posted under
subdivision (a) on at least a monthly basis.