BILL NUMBER: AB 2621	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Garcia and Olsen
   (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 introduced, Garcia. Child day care facilities:
licensing reports.
   Under the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, the State
Department of Public Health 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 the department to post those licensing
reports and documents on its Internet Web site.
   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.  The department shall post on its Internet Web site
licensing reports or other public licensing documents for each
licensed child day care facility that document all of the following,
as applicable:
   (a) Facility visits and inspections.
   (b) Substantiated complaint investigations.
   (c) A conference with a local licensing agency management
representative and the licensee in which issues of noncompliance are
discussed.
   (d) An accusation indicating the department's intent to revoke the
facility's license.