HLS 20RS-927 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 606
BY REPRESENTATIVE EMERSON
CHILDREN/CARE: Provides relative to family and in-home child care providers
1 AN ACT
2To enact R.S. 17:407.65(D), relative to family child care providers and in-home providers
3 registered with the state Department of Education; to provide relative to complaints
4 concerning and inspections of such providers by the department; to require the
5 department to report information regarding such complaints and inspections to
6 certain legislative committees; and to provide for related matters.
7Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 17:407.65(D) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
9 ยง407.65. Inspections; complaints; reporting by department
10 * * *
11 D. On or before March first annually, the department shall submit a report
12 to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education
13 which includes all of the following information:
14 (1) The number of complaints that the department received in the preceding
15 calendar year regarding registered family child care providers and in-home
16 providers.
17 (2) The number of registered family child care providers and in-home
18 providers that were subject to complaints in the preceding calendar year.
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1 (3) The number of inspections of registered family child care providers and
2 in-home providers that the department conducted as authorized in this Section in the
3 preceding calendar year.
4 (4) Any general information concerning registered family child care
5 providers and in-home providers that the state superintendent of education deems
6 necessary and appropriate.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 606 Original 2020 Regular Session Emerson
Abstract: Provides for reporting of general information by the state Dept. of Education on
complaints concerning and inspections of family child care providers and in-home
providers.
Present law provides for registration of family child care providers and in-home providers
with the state Dept. of Education (department). Defines these providers, respectively, as
follows:
(1)"Family child care provider" means an individual who provides child care services
for fewer than 24 hours per day per child, as the sole caregiver, for six or fewer
children, in a private residence.
(2)"In-home provider" means an individual who provides child care services in the child
or children's own home.
Present law provides relative to complaints concerning family child care providers and
in-home providers and inspections of such providers by the department. Proposed law
retains present law and adds thereto a requirement that on or before March 1st annually, the
department submit a report to the legislative committees on education which includes all of
the following information:
(1)The number of complaints that the department received in the preceding calendar
year regarding registered family child care providers and in-home providers.
(2)The number of registered family child care providers and in-home providers that
were subject to complaints in the preceding calendar year.
(3)The number of inspections of registered family child care providers and in-home
providers that the department conducted as authorized in this Section in the
preceding calendar year.
(4)Any general information concerning registered family child care providers and
in-home providers that the state superintendent of education deems necessary and
appropriate.
(Adds R.S. 17:407.65(D))
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
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