California Assembly Bill AB1979 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1979INTRODUCED 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.