Bill Text: IL HB1387 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Removes the requirement that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services must make the comprehensive list of unsafe children's products available to those facilities that do not have Internet access. Provides instead that the Department shall adopt rules to maintain data on child care facilities that do not have Internet access and shall ensure that child care facilities without Internet access register for available mailing lists of pertinent recalls distributed in paper form. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB1387 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB1387-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 5.2 as follows:
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6 | (225 ILCS 10/5.2)
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7 | Sec. 5.2. Unsafe children's products.
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8 | (a) A child care facility may not use or have on the | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | premises, on or after
July 1, 2000, an unsafe children's | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | product as described in Section 15 of the
Children's Product | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Safety Act. This subsection (a) does not apply to an
antique or | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | collectible children's product if it is not used by, or | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | accessible
to, any child in the child care facility.
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14 | (b) The Department of Children and Family Services shall | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | notify child
care facilities, on an ongoing basis, including | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | during the license application facility examination and during | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | annual license monitoring visits, of the provisions of this | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | Section and the
Children's Product Safety Act and of the | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | comprehensive list of unsafe children's products as provided | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | and maintained by the Department of Public Health available on | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | the Internet, as determined
in accordance with that Act, in | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | plain, non-technical language that will enable
each child care | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | facility to effectively inspect children's products and
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1 | identify unsafe children's products. The Department of | ||||||
2 | Children and Family Services shall adopt rules to maintain data | ||||||
3 | on child care facilities without Internet access and shall | ||||||
4 | ensure the child care facilities without Internet access | ||||||
5 | register for available mailing lists of pertinent recalls | ||||||
6 | distributed in paper form. The Department of Children and | ||||||
7 | Family Services must make the comprehensive list available to | ||||||
8 | those facilities that do not have Internet access. Child care | ||||||
9 | facilities must maintain all written information provided | ||||||
10 | pursuant to this subsection in a file accessible to both | ||||||
11 | facility staff and parents of children attending the facility. | ||||||
12 | Child care facilities must post in prominent locations | ||||||
13 | regularly visited by parents written notification of the | ||||||
14 | existence of the comprehensive list of unsafe children's | ||||||
15 | products available on the Internet. The Department of Children | ||||||
16 | and Family
Services shall adopt rules to carry out this | ||||||
17 | Section.
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18 | (Source: P.A. 93-805, eff. 7-24-04.)
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19 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
20 | becoming law.
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