Bill Text: HI HB155 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Infant and Toddler Child Care; Complaint & Grievance Policy
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB155 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB155-Introduced.html
Report Title:
Infant and Toddler Child Care; Complaint & Grievance Policy
Description:
Requires department of human services to adopt rules to implement a standardized set of procedures to accommodate complaints and grievances against infant and toddler child care centers. Requires department to publicize procedures, including on its website.
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to infant and toddler child care centers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the department of human services regulates the operation of infant and toddler child care centers in the State. The legislature also finds that current law does not adequately protect both parents and their infants and toddlers because no standardized or written procedure exists for an individual to file a complaint against an infant and toddler child care center. Chapter 17-895, Hawaii Administrative Rules (Department of Human Services), regulates infant and toddler child care centers. However, there are no rules that address the filing of a complaint against alleged wrongful actions or omissions of a center. Section 17-895-6, Hawaii Administrative Rules, only requires an infant and toddler child care center to provide a written statement on the center's operation policies, including a statement on grievance procedures, presumably to accommodate a center's employees.
The purpose of this Act is to require the department of human services to adopt rules to provide a standardized procedure to accommodate both complaints and grievances against infant and toddler child care centers in the State.
SECTION 2. Chapter 346, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§346- Infant and toddler child care centers; standardized complaint and grievance procedures; public information. (a) The department shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91 to implement a standardized set of procedures to accommodate:
(1) Complaints by individuals, including parents or legal guardians of client infants and toddlers; and
(2) Grievances by employees of an infant and toddler child care center,
regarding alleged wrongful actions or omissions committed by the infant and toddler child care center.
(b) The department shall make public the information regarding this standardized set of procedures and any additional relevant information, including publication on the department's website."
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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