93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
SB2378

 

Introduced 2/3/2004, by Carol Ronen

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
225 ILCS 10/5.2

    Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Makes changes regarding the Department of Children and Family Service's obligation to inform child care facilities of unsafe children's products. Requires the Department to make the comprehensive list of unsafe children's products available to those facilities that do not have Internet access. Requires child care facilities to maintain any written information provided in a file accessible to both facility staff and parents of children attending the facility and to post in prominent locations regularly visited by parents written notification of the existence of the comprehensive list of unsafe children's products available on the Internet. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning child care.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by
5 changing Section 5.2 as follows:
 
6     (225 ILCS 10/5.2)
7     Sec. 5.2. Unsafe children's products.
8     (a) A child care facility may not use or have on the
9 premises, on or after July 1, 2000, an unsafe children's
10 product as described in Section 15 of the Children's Product
11 Safety Act. This subsection (a) does not apply to an antique or
12 collectible children's product if it is not used by, or
13 accessible to, any child in the child care facility.
14     (b) The Department of Children and Family Services shall
15 notify child care facilities, on an ongoing basis, including
16 during the license application facility examination and during
17 annual license monitoring visits, of the provisions of this
18 Section and the Children's Product Safety Act and of the
19 comprehensive list of unsafe children's products available on
20 the Internet, as determined in accordance with that Act, in
21 plain, non-technical language that will enable each child care
22 facility to effectively inspect children's products and
23 identify unsafe children's products. The Department of
24 Children and Family Services must make the comprehensive list
25 available to those facilities that do not have Internet access.
26 Child care facilities must maintain all written information
27 provided pursuant to this subsection in a file accessible to
28 both facility staff and parents of children attending the
29 facility. Child care facilities must post in prominent
30 locations regularly visited by parents written notification of
31 the existence of the comprehensive list of unsafe children's
32 products available on the Internet. The Department of Children

 

 

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1 and Family Services shall adopt rules to carry out this
2 Section.
3 (Source: P.A. 91-413, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
4     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5 becoming law.