HB63 Alabama 2023 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

Relating to child-care facilities; to add Section 38-7-3.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to exempt certain child-care facilities that provide instructional cultural arts programs from licensure requirements; to require exempt child-care facilities to comply with fire and health codes and certain other policies; to require exempt child-care facilities to provide notice that the facility is not licensed and to require parents to submit an affidavit confirming the notice; to require the Department of Human Resources to inspect certain exempt child-care facilities; and to allow the district attorney to investigate certain allegations against an exempt child-care facility.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law certain child-care facilities that are operating as an integral part of a local church ministry or a religious nonprofit school are exempt from certain licensure requirements</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would exempt certain child-care facilities that provide cultural arts programs from licensure requirements, provided the program is strictly instructional and the facility does not advertise itself as providing child care</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would require exempt child-care facilities to adhere to appropriate fire and health codes, criminal history, background check requirements, and insurance requirements, and to provide notice to parents of their exempt status</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would require parents to submit an affidavit that they have been notified that the facility is not licensed</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would require the Department of Human Resources to inspect any new child-care facility that is exempt from licensure before the facility may operate, and would allow the department to inspect any other exempt child-care facility upon reasonable cause that the facility is not in compliance with the law or a child's safety is at risk</p><p class="bill_description"> HB63 INTRODUCED This bill would also allow the district attorney to investigate, at his or her discretion, any allegations against an exempt child-care facility</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to child-care facilities; to add Section 38-7-3.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to exempt certain child-care facilities that provide instructional cultural arts programs from licensure requirements; to require exempt child-care facilities to comply with fire and health codes and certain other policies; to require exempt child-care facilities to provide notice that the facility is not licensed and to require parents to submit an affidavit confirming the notice; to require the Department of Human Resources to inspect certain exempt child-care facilities; and to allow the district attorney to investigate certain allegations against an exempt child-care facility. </p>

Subjects

Child care facilities; facilities offering certain cultural arts instruction exempt from certain licensing requirements