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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by adding |
| 5 | | Section 7.10 as follows:
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| 6 | | (225 ILCS 10/7.10 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 7.10. Progress report. |
| 8 | | (a) For the purposes of this Section, "child day care |
| 9 | | licensing" or "day care licensing" means licensing of day care |
| 10 | | centers, day care homes, and group day care homes. |
| 11 | | (b) No later than September 30, 2013, the Department shall |
| 12 | | provide the General Assembly with a comprehensive report on its |
| 13 | | progress in meeting performance measures and goals related to |
| 14 | | child day care licensing. |
| 15 | | (c) The report shall include: |
| 16 | | (1) details on the funding for child day care |
| 17 | | licensing, including: |
| 18 | | (A) the total number of full-time employees |
| 19 | | working on child day care licensing; |
| 20 | | (B) the names of all sources of revenue used to |
| 21 | | support child day care licensing; |
| 22 | | (C) the amount of expenditures that is claimed |
| 23 | | against federal funding sources; |
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| 1 | | (D) the identity of federal funding sources; and |
| 2 | | (E) how funds are appropriated, including |
| 3 | | appropriations for line staff, support staff, |
| 4 | | supervisory staff, and training and other expenses and |
| 5 | | the funding history of such licensing since fiscal year |
| 6 | | 2010; |
| 7 | | (2) current staffing qualifications of day care |
| 8 | | licensing representatives and day care licensing |
| 9 | | supervisors in comparison with staffing qualifications |
| 10 | | specified in the job description; |
| 11 | | (3) data history for fiscal year 2010 to the current |
| 12 | | fiscal year on day care licensing representative caseloads |
| 13 | | and staffing levels in all areas of the State; |
| 14 | | (4) per the DCFS Child Day Care Licensing Advisory |
| 15 | | Council's work plan, quarterly data on the following |
| 16 | | measures: |
| 17 | | (A) the percentage of new applications disposed of |
| 18 | | within 90 days; |
| 19 | | (B) the percentage of licenses renewed on time; |
| 20 | | (C) the percentage of day care centers receiving |
| 21 | | timely annual monitoring visits; |
| 22 | | (D) the percentage of day care homes receiving |
| 23 | | timely annual monitoring visits; |
| 24 | | (E) the percentage of group day care homes |
| 25 | | receiving timely annual monitoring visits; |
| 26 | | (F) the percentage of provider requests for |
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| 1 | | supervisory review; |
| 2 | | (G) the progress on adopting a key indicator |
| 3 | | system; |
| 4 | | (H) the percentage of complaints disposed of |
| 5 | | within 30 days; |
| 6 | | (I) the average number of days a day care center |
| 7 | | applicant must wait to attend a licensing orientation; |
| 8 | | (J) the number of licensing orientation sessions |
| 9 | | available per region in the past year; and |
| 10 | | (K) the number of Department trainings related to |
| 11 | | licensing and child development available to providers |
| 12 | | in the past year; and |
| 13 | | (5) efforts to coordinate with the Department of Human |
| 14 | | Services and the State Board of Education on professional |
| 15 | | development, credentialing issues, and child developers, |
| 16 | | including training registry, child developers, and Quality |
| 17 | | Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS). |
| 18 | | (d) The Department shall work with the Governor's appointed |
| 19 | | Early Learning Council on issues related to and concerning |
| 20 | | child day care.
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| 21 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, |
| 22 | | 2012. |