Bill Text: MI HB5105 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Water; quality; installations of filtration systems in child care centers; require. Amends title and sec. 1 of 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.111) & adds secs. 3i, 3j & 3k.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-10-16 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 10/16/2019 [HB5105 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB5105-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5105
October 15, 2019, Introduced by Reps.
Afendoulis, Neeley and Brann and referred to the Committee on Natural
Resources and Outdoor Recreation.
A bill to amend 1973 PA 116, entitled
"An act to provide for the protection of children through the licensing and regulation of child care organizations; to provide for the establishment of standards of care for child care organizations; to prescribe powers and duties of certain departments of this state and adoption facilitators; to provide penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
by amending the title and section 1 (MCL 722.111), the title as amended by 1997 PA 165 and section 1 as amended by 2018 PA 431, and by adding sections 3i, 3j, and 3k.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
An act to provide for the protection of children through the licensing and regulation of child care organizations; to provide for the establishment of standards of care for child care organizations; to prescribe powers and duties of certain departments of this state and adoption facilitators; to provide for grants; to provide penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
(a) "Child care staff member" means an individual who is 18 years of age or older to whom 1 or more of the following applies:
(i) The individual is employed by a child care center, group child care home, or family child care home for compensation, including a contract employee or a self-employed individual.
(ii) An individual whose activities involve the unsupervised care or supervision of children for a child care center, group child care home, or family child care home.
(iii) An individual who has unsupervised access to children who are cared for or supervised by a child care center, group child care home, or family child care home.
(iv) An individual who acts in the role of a licensee designee or program director.
(b) "Child care organization" means a governmental or nongovernmental organization having as its principal function receiving minor children for care, maintenance, training, and supervision, notwithstanding that educational instruction may be given. Child care organization includes organizations commonly described as child caring institutions, child placing agencies, children's camps, children's campsites, children's therapeutic group homes, child care centers, day care centers, nursery schools, parent cooperative preschools, foster homes, group homes, or child care homes. Child care organization does not include a governmental or nongovernmental organization that does either of the following:
(i) Provides care exclusively to minors who have been emancipated by court order under section 4(3) of 1968 PA 293, MCL 722.4.
(ii) Provides care exclusively to persons who are 18 years of age or older and to minors who have been emancipated by court order under section 4(3) of 1968 PA 293, MCL 722.4, at the same location.
(c) "Child caring institution" means a child care facility that is organized for the purpose of receiving minor children for care, maintenance, and supervision, usually on a 24-hour basis, in buildings maintained by the child caring institution for that purpose, and operates throughout the year. An educational program may be provided, but the educational program shall not be the primary purpose of the facility. Child caring institution includes a maternity home for the care of unmarried mothers who are minors and an agency group home, that is described as a small child caring institution, owned, leased, or rented by a licensed agency providing care for more than 4 but less than 13 minor children. Child caring institution also includes institutions for developmentally disabled or emotionally disturbed minor children. Child caring institution does not include a hospital, nursing home, or home for the aged licensed under article 17 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.20101 to 333.22260, a boarding school licensed under section 1335 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1335, a hospital or facility operated by the state or licensed under the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1001 to 330.2106, or an adult foster care family home or an adult foster care small group home licensed under the adult foster care facility licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400.701 to 400.737, in which a child has been placed under section 5(6).
(d) "Child placing agency" means a governmental organization or an agency organized under the nonprofit corporation act, 1982 PA 162, MCL 450.2101 to 450.3192, for the purpose of receiving children for placement in private family homes for foster care or for adoption. The function of a child placing agency may include investigating applicants for adoption and investigating and certifying foster family homes and foster family group homes as provided in this act. The function of a child placing agency may also include supervising children who are at least 16 but less than 21 years of age and who are living in unlicensed residences as provided in section 5(4).
(e) "Children's camp" means a residential, day, troop, or travel camp that provides care and supervision and is conducted in a natural environment for more than 4 children, apart from the children's parents, relatives, or legal guardians, for 5 or more days in a 14-day period.
(f) "Children's campsite" means the outdoor setting where a children's residential or day camp is located.
(g) "Children's therapeutic group home" means a child caring institution receiving not more than 6 minor children who are diagnosed with a developmental disability as defined in section 100a of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1100a, or a serious emotional disturbance as defined in section 100d of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1100d, and that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Provides care, maintenance, and supervision, usually on a 24-hour basis.
(ii) Complies with the rules for child caring institutions, except that behavior management rooms, personal restraint, mechanical restraint, or seclusion, which is allowed in certain circumstances under licensing rules, are prohibited in a children's therapeutic group home.
(iii) Is not a private home.
(iv) Is not located on a campus with other licensed facilities.
(h) "Child care center" means a facility, other than a private residence, receiving 1 or more children under 13 years of age for care for periods of less than 24 hours a day, where the parents or guardians are not immediately available to the child. Child care center includes a facility that provides care for not less than 2 consecutive weeks, regardless of the number of hours of care per day. The facility is generally described as a child care center, day care center, day nursery, nursery school, parent cooperative preschool, play group, before- or after-school program, or drop-in center. Child care center does not include any of the following:
(i) A Sunday school, a vacation bible school, or a religious instructional class that is conducted by a religious organization where children are attending for not more than 3 hours per day for an indefinite period or for not more than 8 hours per day for a period not to exceed 4 weeks during a 12-month period.
(ii) A facility operated by a religious organization where children are in the religious organization's care for not more than 3 hours while persons responsible for the children are attending religious services.
(iii) A program that is primarily supervised, school-age-child-focused training in a specific subject, including, but not limited to, dancing, drama, music, or religion. This exclusion applies only to the time a child is involved in supervised, school-age-child-focused training.
(iv) A program that is primarily an incident of group athletic or social activities for school-age children sponsored by or under the supervision of an organized club or hobby group, including, but not limited to, youth clubs, scouting, and school-age recreational or supplementary education programs. This exclusion applies only to the time the school-age child is engaged in the group athletic or social activities and if the school-age child can come and go at will.
(v) A program that primarily provides therapeutic services to a child.
(i) "Conviction" means a final conviction, the payment of a fine, a plea of guilty or nolo contendere if accepted by the court, a finding of guilt for a criminal law violation or a juvenile adjudication or disposition by the juvenile division of probate court or family division of circuit court for a violation that if committed by an adult would be a crime, or a conviction in a tribal court or a military court.
(j) "Criminal history check" means a fingerprint-based criminal history record information background check through the department of state police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(k) "Criminal history record information" means that term as defined in section 1a of 1925 PA 289, MCL 28.241a.
(l) "Department" means the department of health and human services and the department of licensing and regulatory affairs or a successor agency or department responsible for licensure under this act. The department of licensing and regulatory affairs is responsible for licensing and regulatory matters for child care centers, group child care homes, family child care homes, children's camps, and children's campsites. The department of health and human services is responsible for licensing and regulatory matters for child caring institutions, child placing agencies, children's therapeutic group homes, foster family homes, and foster family group homes. However, as used in sections 3i to 3k, "department" means the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy.
(m) "Eligible" means that the individual obtained the checks and clearances described in sections 5n and 5q and is considered appropriate to obtain a license, to be a member of the household of a group child care home or family child care home, or to be a child care staff member.
(n) "Filtered bottle-filling station" or "station" means an apparatus that meets all of the following requirements:
(i) Is connected to customer site piping.
(ii) Filters water.
(iii) Has a light or other device to indicate filter performance.
(iv) Is designed to fill drinking bottles or other containers used for personal water consumption.
(o) "Filtered faucet" means a faucet that includes a filter at the point of use.
(p) (n) "Ineligible" means that the individual obtained the checks and clearances as described in sections 5n and 5q and, under section 5n, 5q, or 5r, is not considered appropriate to obtain a license, to be a member of the household of a group child care home or family child care home, or to be a child care staff member. due to violation of section 5n, 5q, or 5r.
(q) (o) "Private home" means a private residence in which the licensee permanently resides, which residency is not contingent upon caring for children or employment by a child placing agency. Private home includes a full-time foster family home, a full-time foster family group home, a group child care home, or a family child care home, as follows:
(i) "Foster family home" means a private home in which 1 but not more than 4 minor children, who are not related to an adult member of the household by blood or marriage, who are not placed in the household under the Michigan adoption code, chapter X of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 710.21 to 710.70, or who are not hosted in the private home as provided in the safe families for children act, 2018 PA 434, MCL 722.1551 to 722.1567, are given care and supervision for 24 hours a day, for 4 or more days a week, for 2 or more consecutive weeks, unattended by a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian.
(ii) "Foster family group home" means a private home in which more than 4 but fewer than 7 minor children, who are not related to an adult member of the household by blood or marriage, who are not placed in the household under the Michigan adoption code, chapter X of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 710.21 to 710.70, or who are not hosted in the private home as provided in the safe families for children act, 2018 PA 434, MCL 722.1551 to 722.1567, are provided care for 24 hours a day, for 4 or more days a week, for 2 or more consecutive weeks, unattended by a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian.
(iii) "Family child care home" means a private home in which 1 but fewer than 7 minor children are received for care and supervision for compensation for periods of less than 24 hours a day, unattended by a parent or legal guardian, except children related to an adult member of the household by blood, marriage, or adoption. Family child care home includes a home in which care is given to an unrelated minor child for more than 4 weeks during a calendar year. A family child care home does not include an individual providing babysitting services for another individual. As used in this subparagraph, "providing babysitting services" means caring for a child on behalf of the child's parent or guardian when the annual compensation for providing those services does not equal or exceed $600.00 or an amount that would according to the internal revenue code of 1986 obligate the child's parent or guardian to provide a form 1099-MISC to the individual for compensation paid during the calendar year for those services.
(iv) "Group child care home" means a private home in which more than 6 but not more than 12 minor children are given care and supervision for periods of less than 24 hours a day unattended by a parent or legal guardian, except children related to an adult member of the household by blood, marriage, or adoption. Group child care home includes a home in which care is given to an unrelated minor child for more than 4 weeks during a calendar year.
(r) (p) "Legal custodian" means an individual who is at least 18 years of age in whose care a minor child remains or is placed after a court makes a finding under section 13a(5) of chapter XIIA of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.13a.
(s) (q) "Licensee" means a person, partnership, firm, corporation, association, nongovernmental organization, or local or state government organization that has been issued a license under this act to operate a child care organization.
(t) (r) "Listed offense" means that term as defined in section 2 of the sex offenders registration act, 1994 PA 295, MCL 28.722.
(u) (s) "Member of the household" means any individual who resides in a family child care home, group child care home, foster family home, or foster family group home on an ongoing basis, or who has a recurrent presence in the home, including, but not limited to, overnight stays. For foster family homes and foster family group homes, a member of the household does not include a foster child. For group child care homes and family child care homes, a member of the household does not include a child to whom child care is being provided.
(v) (t) "Original license" means a license issued to a child care organization during the first 6 months of operation indicating that the organization is in compliance with all rules promulgated by the department under this act.
(w) (u) "Provisional license" means a license issued to a child care organization that is temporarily unable to conform to the rules promulgated under this act.
(x) (v) "Regular license" means a license issued to a child care organization indicating that the organization is in substantial compliance with all rules promulgated under this act and, if there is a deficiency, has entered into a corrective action plan.
(y) (w) "Guardian" means the guardian of the person.
(z) (x) "Minor child" means any of the following:
(i) A person less than 18 years of age.
(ii) A person who is a resident in a child caring institution, foster family home, or foster family group home, who is at least 18 but less than 21 years of age, and who meets the requirements of the young adult voluntary foster care act, 2011 PA 225, MCL 400.641 to 400.671.
(iii) A person who is a resident in a child caring institution, children's camp, foster family home, or foster family group home; who becomes 18 years of age while residing in a child caring institution, children's camp, foster family home, or foster family group home; and who continues residing in a child caring institution, children's camp, foster family home, or foster family group home to receive care, maintenance, training, and supervision. A minor child under this subparagraph does not include a person 18 years of age or older who is placed in a child caring institution, foster family home, or foster family group home under an adjudication under section 2(a) of chapter XIIA of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.2, or under section 1 of chapter IX of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.1. This subparagraph applies only if the number of those residents who become 18 years of age does not exceed the following:
(A) Two, if the total number of residents is 10 or fewer.
(B) Three, if the total number of residents is not less than 11 and not more than 14.
(C) Four, if the total number of residents is not less than 15 and not more than 20.
(D) Five, if the total number of residents is 21 or more.
(iv) A person 18 years of age or older who is placed in an unlicensed residence under section 5(4) or a foster family home under section 5(7).
(aa) (y) "Related" means in the relationship by blood, marriage, or adoption, as parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, aunt or uncle, great-aunt or great-uncle, great-great-aunt or great-great-uncle, sibling, stepsibling, nephew or niece, first cousin or first cousin once removed, and the spouse of any of the individuals described in this definition, even after the marriage has ended by death or divorce.
(bb) (z) "Religious organization" means a church, ecclesiastical corporation, or group, not organized for pecuniary profit, that gathers for mutual support and edification in piety or worship of a supreme deity.
(cc) (aa) "School-age child" means a child who is eligible to attend a grade of kindergarten or higher, but is less than 13 years of age. A child is considered to be a school-age child on the first day of the school year in which he or she is eligible to attend school.
(dd) (bb) "Severe physical injury" means that term as defined in section 8 of the child protection law, 1975 PA 238, MCL 722.628.
(ee) (cc) "Licensee designee" means the individual designated in writing by the board of directors of the corporation or by the owner or person with legal authority to act on behalf of the company or organization on licensing matters. The individual must agree in writing to be designated as the licensee designee. All license applications must be signed by the licensee in the case of the individual or by a member of the corporation, company, or organization.
(ff) "State drinking water standards" means quality standards setting limits for contaminant levels or establishing treatment techniques to meet standards necessary to protect the public health.
Sec. 3i. (1) By August 1, 2020, each child care center shall develop a drinking water safety plan. The child care center shall make the plan available to the department, staff, and parents upon request. The plan shall do all of the following:
(a) Specify all of the following, by category:
(i) Locations where water outlets will be maintained to deliver water for human consumption, whether as drinking water or a component of a food or beverage, using the following categories:
(A) Locations where filtered bottle-filling stations will be maintained. The plan shall provide for the maintenance of at least 1 station for every 100 occupants of the child care center, not including visitors or those attending special events.
(B) Locations where filtered faucets will be maintained.
(ii) Locations where water outlets will be maintained for purposes other than as described in subparagraph (i).
(iii) Locations of water outlets that will be taken out of service.
(b) Establish schedules for each of the following:
(i) Annual water sampling and testing for each filtered bottle-filling station and filtered faucet in the child care center to ensure that filters are properly installed and comply with ANSI/NSF standard 53 for lead removal, ANSI/NSF standard 42 for particulate removal, and any other standards for contaminant removal that the department recommends.
(ii) Regular replacement of the filter cartridge for each filtered bottle-filling station and filtered faucet in compliance with manufacturer instructions or recommendations of the department.
(2) Each child care center shall review and update its drinking water safety plan every 5 years and make changes as needed or as directed by the department to comply with this section.
(3) A child care center shall comply with the schedules under subsection (1)(b).
(4) Within 20 days after receiving the results of any testing performed as part of its drinking water safety plan, a child care center shall report the results to the department. Within 30 days after receiving the test results, the child care center shall do both of the following:
(a) If the child care center maintains a website, post the test results on its website.
(b) Post the test results, as well as information on the health effects of lead exposure and ways to reduce child lead exposure, in a location in its administrative office readily visible to staff and parents.
(5) If test results described in subsection (4) indicate the presence of lead at 1 part per billion or more or of any other contaminant at a level exceeding state drinking water standards in a sample from a filtered bottle-filling station or filtered faucet, the child care center shall do all of the following:
(a) Immediately shut off or render inoperable the water outlet.
(b) Not return the water outlet to service until resampling indicates no exceedance as described in this subsection of lead or any other contaminant.
(c) Post a conspicuous sign near the water outlet stating that it is inoperable because of contamination and maintain the posting until the water outlet is returned to service under subdivision (b).
(d) Send a copy of the test results to the department of health and human services and each parent or guardian of a child enrolled in the child care center.
(e) Replace the filter or filters for the filtered bottle-filling station or filtered faucet and resample and retest the water.
(f) Develop a remediation plan in consultation with the department if an exceedance as described in this subsection of lead or any other contaminant continues after replacement of the filter or filters. The child care center shall incorporate the remediation plan into its drinking water safety plan.
Sec. 3j. By August 1, 2021, each child care center shall do all of the following:
(a) Install all filtered bottle-filling stations and filtration devices for filtered faucets as indicated in the drinking water safety plan under section 3i and not already in existence.
(b) Shut off or render permanently inoperable any outlet for water for human consumption that has not been converted to a filtered bottle-filling station or filtered faucet.
(c) Post a conspicuous sign near each water outlet indicating whether or not the outlet is intended to provide water for human consumption.
Sec. 3k. The department shall assist each child care center in maintaining compliance with this act. The department shall do all of the following:
(a) Provide a template for drinking water safety plans required under section 3i.
(b) Provide and maintain a list of approved filtered bottle-filling stations, faucet filtration devices for filtered faucets, and filters and of filter manufacturers, installers, and maintenance providers.
(c) Provide guidance on all of the following:
(i) Factors that a child care center should consider when selecting filtered bottle-filling stations, filtration devices for filtered faucets, and filters. The department shall give preference to models that minimize plumbing between the filter and the dispensing outlet.
(ii) The installation, operation, and maintenance of filtered bottle-filling stations and filtered faucets. The guidance shall include annual training for child care center staff on proper maintenance of filtered bottle-filling stations and filtered faucets.
(iii) The proper storage and disposal of a filter for a filtered bottle-filling station or filtered faucet.
(iv) How to sample water from a filtered bottle-filling station or filtered faucet for testing for lead or other contaminants.
