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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,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 7.10 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (225 ILCS 10/7.10) | ||||||
| 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 30th of each year 30, 2013, the | ||||||
| 12 | Department shall provide the General Assembly with a | ||||||
| 13 | comprehensive report on its progress in meeting performance | ||||||
| 14 | measures and goals related to 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 | (Source: P.A. 97-1096, eff. 8-24-12.)
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