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 forbegin delete day care centers, small family day care homes, and large family day care homesend deletebegin insert child day care facilitiesend insert, as specified. 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 1596.819 is added to the Health and
2Safety Code, to read:
(a) Except as otherwise prohibited by law, the
4department shall post licensing information on its Internet Web
5site as follows:
6(1) For eachbegin insert childend insert day carebegin delete center and large family day care begin insert facility as defined in Section 1596.750, except small family
7homeend delete
8day care homesend insert, the information shall include, but is not limited
9to, the name and address of the facility,begin insert
the licensed capacity of
10the facility,end insert the status of the license, and the number of site visits,
11including the number of substantiated and inconclusive complaint
12begin delete inspections andend deletebegin insert inspectionsend insertbegin insert,end insert noncomplaint inspections,begin insert and
13citations assessedend insert during the preceding five-year period.
14(2) For each small family day care home, the information shall
15include, but is not limited to, the name of the home, the status of
16the license, and the number of site visits,
including the number of
17
substantiated and inconclusive complaintbegin delete inspections andend delete
18begin insert inspections,end insert noncomplaint inspections,begin insert and citations assessedend insert
19 during the preceding five-year period.
20(b) The department shall update the information posted under
21subdivision (a) on at least a monthly basis.
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