CA AB2386

Requires community care facilities, residential care facilities for the elderly, residential care facilities for persons with chronic life-threatening illness, day care centers, and family day care homes to install one or more functioning carbon monoxide detectors meeting standards in Health and Safety Code Chapter 8.

Mandates the State Department of Social Services account for the presence of carbon monoxide detectors during facility inspections.

Applies carbon monoxide detector requirements to small family day care homes, large family day care homes, and licensed child day care centers.

Creates a state-mandated local program by establishing new requirements for residential care facilities for the elderly and facilities for persons with chronic life-threatening illness.

Specifies no state reimbursement is required because costs result from creating new regulatory requirements rather than imposing direct local costs.