1100: FLOOR SUMMARY (Date Completed: 3-10-10) - CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION LICENSING

CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION LICENSING S.B. 1100 (S-1): FLOOR SUMMARY
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Senate Bill 1100 (Substitute S-1 as reported)
Sponsor: Senator Dennis Olshove
Committee: Families and Human Services

CONTENT
The bill would amend the child care licensing Act to do the following:

-- Extend criminal history and records check requirements to licensee designees of child care organizations.
-- Expand the types of child care organizations whose employees are subject to criminal history checks. -- Prohibit the Department of Human Services (DHS) from issuing a license to an applicant if the individual applicant or the owner, partner, or director of the applying organization had been convicted of child abuse or neglect.
-- Prohibit a licensee, registrant, adult household member, licensee designee, chief administrator, or program director of a child care organization from being present in a child care organization if he or she had been convicted of child abuse or neglect.
-- Include licensees, registrants, licensee designees, administrators, and adult household members among those who must provide documentation that they have not been named as the perpetrator of child abuse or neglect.
-- Prohibit children's camp staff members and unsupervised adult volunteers from having contact with children unless they provided such documentation.

MCL 722.111 et al. Legislative Analyst: Curtis Walker

FISCAL IMPACT
The bill could lead to increases in administrative cost in the Department of Human Services. The increase would be associated with process changes to ensure that child care organizations complied with the background check standard, and processing increased requests for checks with the Department of State Police.

The bill would require the Department of State Police to run criminal history and criminal records background checks for licensees of all child care organizations. The cost is $49.25 per check. The Act allows the State Police to pass the cost of licensees' criminal history checks on to the DHS, and allows the DHS to pass the cost on to the licensees.

The bill also would require the performance of a criminal history (name) check on each employee of a child care organization through ICHAT at a cost of $10 per name check. The Act allows a licensee to pass the cost of an ICHAT search on to the employee.

Date Completed: 3-10-10 Fiscal Analyst: Bruce Baker David Fosdick

Analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent. sb1100/0910