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AL SB248
Bill
Status
2/22/2022
Primary Sponsor
Dan Roberts
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AI Summary
SB248 Summary
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Criminal history background checks and suitability determination letters for day care center applicants, volunteers, and employees are valid for five years, except that new criminal investigations invalidate the check and letter.
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Allows child-care facility employees to work up to 12 hours in a single shift, but employers cannot obligate workers to exceed 8 hours per shift.
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Expands the time period for considering certain criminal history evidence against child-care facility applicants and employees from automatic disqualification to a 10-year lookback period for various offenses including felonies, financial crimes, misdemeanors, and drug-related offenses.
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Requires the Department of Human Resources to adopt new rules by January 1, 2023, establishing minimum standards for day care centers including work experience flexibility, online training options, fire code compliance, staff-child ratios of 1:11 for ages 2.5-3 years and 1:13 for ages 3-4 years, and 120-day advance notice of regulatory changes.
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Revises defined terms for child-care facilities and adds new provisions for advertising requirements, recordkeeping standards, and data reporting standards.
Legislative Description
Child-care facilities, Dept of Human Resources, require DHR to revise certain standards regulating child-care facilities, requires DHR to adopt rules, Sec. 38-7-22 added; Secs. 38-7-2, 38-7-3, 38-7-5, 38-7-7, 38-7-12, 38-7-13, 38-7-14, 38-7-20, 38-13-4 am'd.
Child Care Facilities
Last Action
Indefinitely Postponed
4/6/2022