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

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Bill Title: Child day care facilities: licensing information.

Sponsorship: 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-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2621	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Garcia and Olsen
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members  Eggman  
 and Beth Gaines   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, as amended, Garcia. Child day care facilities: 
licensing reports.   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 that inspection reports, consultation
reports, lists of violations, and plans of correction for child day
care facilities be open to public inspection, and would require the
department to post this information on the department's Internet Web
site. The bill would also require the department to post on the
department's Internet Web site the number and nature of complaints
filed against a facility within each calendar year, as specified.
 
   This bill would require the department to post licensing
information on its Internet Web site for day care centers, small
family day care homes, and large family day care homes, as specified.
The bill would require the department to update this information on
at least a monthly basis. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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 day care center and large family day care home, the
information shall include, but is not limited to, the name and
address of the facility, the status of the license, and the number of
site visits, including the number of substantiated and inconclusive
complaint inspections and noncomplaint inspections, during the
preceding five-year period.
   (2) For each small 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
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.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 1596.819 is added to the
Health and Safety Code, to read:
   1596.819.  All inspection reports, consultation reports, lists of
violations, and plans of correction for child day care facilities
shall be open to public inspection and posted on the department's
Internet Web site. The department shall also post on the department's
Internet Web site the number and nature of complaints filed against
a facility within each calendar year, including whether a complaint
is undergoing investigation, whether the complaint has been
substantiated or unsubstantiated, and whether the complaint has been
found to be inconclusive. The department shall update this
information on a quarterly basis. The department shall redact all
personally identifiable information of children and their families,
the complainant, and individuals named in any documents who are not
associated with the facility prior to the information being made
available to the public or being posted to the department's Internet
Web site pursuant to this section.