BILL NUMBER: AB 1979	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Adams

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act to amend Section 1597.09 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to child day care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1979, as introduced, Adams. Child day care centers:
inspections.
   Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act,
subjects each licensed child day care center to unannounced visits by
the State Department of Social Services and requires the department
to visit these facilities as often as necessary to ensure the quality
of care provided. The act also requires the department to conduct an
annual unannounced visit to a licensed child day care center under
specified circumstances, and no less often than once every five
years.
   This bill would require the department to make annual unannounced
visits of all licensed child day care centers.
   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 1597.09 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   1597.09.   (a)    Each licensed
child day care center shall be subject to  an annual 
unannounced  visits   visit  by the
department.  The   In addition, the 
department shall visit these facilities as often as necessary to
ensure the quality of care  provided. 
    (b)     The department
shall conduct an annual unannounced visit to a licensed child day
care center   provided, as well as  under any of
the following circumstances: 
   (1)
    (a   )  When a license is on probation.

   (2)  
   When the terms of agreement in a facility compliance plan require
an annual evaluation.  
   (3) 
    (b)  When an accusation against a licensee is pending.

   (4) 
    (c)  In order to verify that a person who has been
ordered out of a child day care center by the department is no longer
at the facility. 
   (c) (1) The department shall conduct an annual unannounced visit
to no less than 20 percent of facilities not subject to an evaluation
under subdivision (b). These unannounced visits shall be conducted
based on a random sampling methodology developed by the department.
 
   (2) If the total citations issued by the department exceed the
previous year's total by 10 percent, the following year the
department shall increase the random sample by 10 percent of
facilities not subject to an evaluation under subdivision (b). The
department may request additional resources to increase the random
sample by 10 percent.  
   (d) Under no circumstance shall the department visit a licensed
child day care center less often than once every five years.