Public Act 103-0805
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by
changing Section 7.10 as follows:
(225 ILCS 10/7.10)
Sec. 7.10. Licensing orientation program and progress
Progress report.
(a) For the purposes of this Section, "child day care
licensing" or "day care licensing" means licensing of day care
centers, day care homes, and group day care homes.
(a-5) In addition to current daycare training and subject
to appropriations, the Department or any State agency that
assumes day care center licensing responsibilities shall host
licensing orientation programs to help educate potential day
care center, day care home, and group day care home providers
about the child day care licensing process. The programs shall
be made available in person and virtually. The Department or
its successor shall offer to host licensing orientation
programs at least twice annually in each Representative
District in the State. Additionally, if one or more persons
request that a program be offered in a language other than
English, then the Department or its successor must accommodate
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the request.
(b) No later than September 30th of each year, the
Department shall provide the General Assembly with a
comprehensive report on its progress in meeting performance
measures and goals related to child day care licensing.
(c) The report shall include:
(1) details on the funding for child day care
licensing, including:
(A) the total number of full-time employees
working on child day care licensing;
(B) the names of all sources of revenue used to
support child day care licensing;
(C) the amount of expenditures that is claimed
against federal funding sources;
(D) the identity of federal funding sources; and
(E) how funds are appropriated, including
appropriations for line staff, support staff,
supervisory staff, and training and other expenses and
the funding history of such licensing since fiscal
year 2010;
(2) current staffing qualifications of day care
licensing representatives and day care licensing
supervisors in comparison with staffing qualifications
specified in the job description;
(3) data history for fiscal year 2010 to the current
fiscal year on day care licensing representative caseloads
and staffing levels in all areas of the State;
(4) per the DCFS Child Day Care Licensing Advisory
Council's work plan, quarterly data on the following
measures:
(A) the percentage of new applications disposed of
within 90 days;
(B) the percentage of licenses renewed on time;
(C) the percentage of day care centers receiving
timely annual monitoring visits;
(D) the percentage of day care homes receiving
timely annual monitoring visits;
(E) the percentage of group day care homes
receiving timely annual monitoring visits;
(F) the percentage of provider requests for
supervisory review;
(G) the progress on adopting a key indicator
system;
(H) the percentage of complaints disposed of
within 30 days;
(I) the average number of days a day care center
applicant must wait to attend a licensing orientation;
(J) the number of licensing orientation sessions
available per region in the past year; and
(K) the number of Department trainings related to
licensing and child development available to providers
in the past year; and
(5) efforts to coordinate with the Department of Human
Services and the State Board of Education on professional
development, credentialing issues, and child developers,
including training registry, child developers, and Quality
Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS).
(d) The Department shall work with the Governor's
appointed Early Learning Council on issues related to and
concerning child day care.
(Source: P.A. 97-1096, eff. 8-24-12; 98-839, eff. 1-1-15.)