Bill Text: CA AB676 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Child care and development: occupational health and safety training.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-09-01 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB676 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB676-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
June 29, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 30, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 27, 2017 |
Assembly Bill | No. 676 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Limón |
February 15, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would, effective July 1, 2018, require an early educator, as defined, to attend a one-time, two-hour, peer-led training on occupational health and safety risks specific to the child care profession, and on how to identify and avoid those risks. The bill would require the Department of Industrial Relations to select an entity to provide this training. The bill would require that entity to develop the curriculum for the training and to provide periodic updates on health and safety issues for early educators who have completed the training, as specified. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to administer the contract with the entity selected to provide the training and to provide
the entity with contact information for family day care home providers who have and have not attended the training.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 6354.8 is added to the Labor Code, to read:6354.8.
(a) The Early Educators’ Safety and Health Education Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Moneys in the fund may be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, by the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation for the purpose of establishing and maintaining an Early Educators’ Occupational Safety and Health Training Program within the workers’ occupational safety and health training and education program established or maintained pursuant to Section 6354.7.SEC. 2.SEC. 3.
Section 1596.86 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:1596.86.
(a) The director shall annually publish and make available to interested persons a list or lists covering all licensed child day care facilities, other than small family day care homes, and the services for which each facility has been licensed or issued a special permit. The lists shall also specify the licensed capacity of the facility and whether it is licensed by the department or by another public agency.SEC. 3.SEC. 4.
Section 1596.8663 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:(a)As used in this section, the following definitions apply:
(1)“Early educator” means either of the following:
(A)A person who provides child care services directly to children on a person-to-person basis at a licensed child day care facility, as defined in Section 1596.750, and is either a child care provider, an administrator, or an employee of a licensed child day care facility.
(B)A person who
provides child care services directly to children on a person-to-person basis under a publicly funded child care program, and is a child care provider who is exempt from licensing requirements pursuant to Section 1596.792.
(2)“Contact information” means an early educator’s name, home address, mailing address, telephone number or numbers, email address, if available, and unique provider identification
number, if applicable.
(3)“Peer-led training” means an in-person training session for early educators that is led by one or more other early educators who have had specific training in how to lead the sessions.
(4)“Publicly funded child care program” means a program that subsidizes early learning and care for children and that is administered by the State Department of Education, the department, or another department, agency, or political subdivision of the state, including, but not limited to, child care voucher programs, the California State Preschool Program, child care center contracts, subsidized child care centers operated by school districts, and programs
established subsequent to the passage of this article, but not including teachers in the K–12 public education system or before- or after-care programs operated by K–12 public school systems.
(b)The department shall require an early educator to attend a one-time, two-hour, peer-led training session on occupational health and safety risks specific to the child care profession, and on how to identify and avoid those risks.
1596.8663.
(a) (1) In addition to other required training, and except as provided in paragraph (3), every early educator shall complete the in-person training session described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 6354.8 of the Labor Code. (c)The department may establish a schedule according to which all
(d)Alternatives to the in-person, peer-led training session, including, but not limited to, online and teleconference options,
(e)The training session shall include all of the following:
(1)A discussion of all of the following risks and how the risks can be identified and minimized in a child care setting:
(A)Chemical and biological hazards.
(B)Infectious disease.
(C)Physical hazards and stress.
(2)Small-group and large-group discussion.
(3)An opportunity for an early educator
to learn from current
early educators.
(4)Presentations by associations or organizations that foster professional development and stakeholder engagement about professional development and stakeholder engagement opportunities for early educators, upon approval by the department, based on a determination that presentations by those organizations would be relevant and useful to the early educators and further the interests of the state in a well-trained, engaged workforce.
(5)An opportunity for an early educator to give feedback on the training he or she has received.
(f)The entity selected pursuant to subdivision (g) to provide the training required by this section shall develop the curriculum for the training session in
consultation with the State Department of Public Health and with direct input from early educators. The curriculum shall be reviewed and approved by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations.
(g)The Department of Industrial Relations shall, on a
competitive basis, select a nonprofit entity to provide the occupational health and safety training required by this section. The Department of Industrial Relations shall select an entity that has experience providing occupational health and safety training to early educators, as described in this section.
(h)The department shall administer the contract with the entity selected to provide the occupational health and safety training.
(i)
(j)The entity selected to provide the training shall take attendance at the training and shall inform the department of the names and other identifying information of the early educators who have attended.
(k)(1)On a monthly basis, beginning one month prior to the date of the first occupational health and safety training, the department shall provide to the entity selected to provide the training lists of the contact information of family
day care home providers who have attended the training, and of those who are required to attend the training but have not yet attended. The entity selected to provide the training shall use the contact information in these lists only for the purpose of accomplishing the training goals described in this section, including publicizing the training and providing periodic updates to early educators as required pursuant to subdivision (l). The entity shall not sell the lists to, or share the lists with, third parties.
(2)The department shall compile the lists of contact information described in paragraph (1) with the assistance of the State Department of Education and any other state department or agency, or its contractor or subcontractor, in possession of the contact information for family day care home providers who are
required to attend the training.
(3)
(l)The entity selected to provide the training shall provide early educators with periodic updates on health and safety issues, and other educational information relevant to the training using the contact information in the lists described in subdivision (k) and the attendance data described in subdivision (j).
(m)The department and the entity selected to provide the training shall comply with the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act (Chapter 17.5 (commencing with Section 7290) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code), which includes, among alternative communication options, providing the same type of training materials in any non-English language spoken by a substantial number of members of the public whom the department serves.
(n)