CA SB234

Requires large family daycare homes (serving 7-14 children) to be treated as residential use of property for zoning purposes, eliminating the previous option for cities to require special permits.

Voids all restrictions in property documents, covenants, or landlord agreements that prohibit or restrict the use of residential property as a family daycare home, and prohibits property owners from refusing to rent or sell to family daycare providers.

Extends the prohibition on local business licenses, fees, and taxes for operating daycare homes to large family daycare homes (previously applied only to small homes serving 8 or fewer children).

Requires the State Fire Marshal to update fire and life safety building standards for family daycare homes by the next regulation adoption cycle and every 3 years thereafter, with guidance to be issued by January 1, 2021.

Requires the State Department of Social Services to notify applicants for family daycare home licenses that fair housing remedies are available if housing discrimination protections under the bill have been denied.