BILL NUMBER: AB 2621	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 13, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 26, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Garcia and Olsen
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Eggman, Beth Gaines, and Waldron)
   (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 amended, Garcia. Child day care facilities: licensing
information.
   Under the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, the State
Department of Social Services 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 licensing
information on its Internet Web site for child day care facilities,
 as specified   including, among other things,
the number of citations, substantiated and inconclusive complaint
inspections, and noncomplaint inspections during the preceding 5-year
period  . The bill would require the department to update this
information on at least a monthly basis.
   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.  (a) Except as otherwise prohibited by law, the
department shall post licensing information on its Internet Web site
as follows:
   (1) For each child day care facility as defined in Section
1596.750, except  small  family day care homes, the
information shall include, but is not limited to, the name and
address of the facility, the licensed capacity of the facility, the
status of the license, and the number of site visits, including the
number of  citations,  substantiated and inconclusive
complaint inspections,  and  noncomplaint 
inspections, and citations assessed   inspections 
during the preceding five-year period.
   (2) For each  small  family day care home, the
information shall include, but is not limited to, the name of the
home, the status of the license, and the number of site visits,
including the number of  citations,  substantiated and
inconclusive complaint inspections,  and  noncomplaint
 inspections, and citations assessed  
inspections  during the preceding five-year period.
   (b) The department shall update the information posted under
subdivision (a) on at least a monthly basis.