SB 766, as amended, Yee. Ancillary day care centers.
Existing law requires a person 18 years of age or older who provides child care or child care supervision in an ancillary day care center, as defined, to be registered as a trustline provider, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to charge a fee to each trustline applicant who provides care in an ancillary day care center that is equal to the total amount required by the department to process applications and maintain the trustline registry for these providers. Under existing law, moneys collected by the department to implement the trustline provisions are continuously appropriated to the department without regard to fiscal year for expenditure to implement the trustline provisions.
This bill would, in addition, require a person who is otherwise responsible for engaging with children cared for in an ancillary day care center to be registered as a trustline provider.
The bill would require an ancillary day care center to comply with certain requirements, including the requirements to maintain specified care provider-child ratios and ensure the presence, at all times, of at least one care provider who is 18 years of age or older.
By increasing the funds appropriated to the department for purposes of the trustline registry, this bill would make an appropriation.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 1596.656 of the Health and Safety Code
2 is amended to read:
(a) A person 18 years of age or older, who provides
4child care or child care supervision, or is otherwise responsible
5for engaging with children cared for in an ancillary day care center,
6as defined in Section 1596.60, shall be registered pursuant to
7Sections 1596.603 and 1596.605. Nothing in this chapter shall be
8construed to prevent a person under 18 years of age from being
9employed in an ancillary day care center.
10(b) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if a
11person 18 years of age or older is denied trustline registration by
12the department pursuant to Section 1596.605 or 1596.607, or if
13the department revokes a person’s trustline registration pursuant
14to Section
1596.608, that person shall be ineligible for employment
15in a position providing child care or child care supervision in an
16ancillary day care center.
17(c) If an existing employee providing child care or child care
18supervision in an ancillary day care center, or a prospective
19employee seeking employment in a position that provides child
20care or child care supervision in an ancillary day care center,
21submits an application to the department to become a registered
22trustline child care provider, that existing or prospective employee
23shall be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements of this
24section and permitted to work in a position providing child care
25or child care supervision pending the department’s review of his
26or her trustline application. The existing or prospective employee
27shall become ineligible for employment providing child
care or
28child care supervision in an ancillary day care center if the
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department denies his or her trustline application and any right to
30appeal the department’s denial has been exhausted or has expired.
Chapter 3.37 (commencing with Section 1596.69) is
2added to Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:
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begin insertAn ancillary day care center, as defined in Section end insert
71596.60, shall comply with all of the following requirements:
8(a) Maintainbegin delete a ratio of noend deletebegin insert the following ratios:end insert
9(1) No more than four infants to each care provider for children
100 to 17
months of age, inclusive.
11begin insert (2)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertNoend insert more than 10 children to each care provider for children
12begin delete ages 0end deletebegin insert 18 monthsend insert to 6 yearsbegin insert of ageend insert,begin delete inclusive, and maintain a ratio begin insert inclusive.end insert
13of noend delete
14begin insert
(3)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertNoend insert more than 15 children to each care provider for children
15begin delete agesend delete 7 to 17begin insert years of ageend insert, inclusive.
16(b) Ensure the presence, at all times, of at least one care provider
17who is 18 years of age or older.
18(c) Ensure that any substitute care providers, or staff responsible
19to engage with children that are present in the ancillary day care
20center are registered pursuant to Sections 1596.603 and 1596.605.
21(d) Ensure that at least one care provider present in the center
22has received health and
safety training, including training in
23pediatric first aid and current training in pediatric cardiopulmonary
24resuscitation.
25(e) Establish health and safety protocols and inform staff and
26parents of the established protocols, which may include, but are
27not limited to, notifying parents of incidents at the center and use
28of emergency medical services.
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