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2009 Senate Bill 723: Mandate child care “licensing notebooks”

Public Act 85 of 2010

  1. Introduced by Sen. Tupac Hunter (D) on August 5, 2009, to require the operator of a child care center, group child care home, or family child care home to keep and make available to parents a licensing notebook that includes all licensing, registration, inspection and special investigation reports, and corrective action plans, plus a list of any incidents from the past 10 years that required a child’s hospitalization or resulted in death.
    • Referred to the Senate Families and Human Services Committee on August 5, 2009.
      • Reported in the Senate on February 2, 2010, with the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
      • Substitute offered in the Senate on February 3, 2010. The substitute passed by voice vote in the Senate on February 3, 2010.
  2. Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on February 4, 2010.
    Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"

  3. Received in the House on February 4, 2010.
    • Referred to the House Families and Childrens Services Committee on February 4, 2010.
      • Reported in the House on May 5, 2010, without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.
  4. Passed 96 to 8 in the House on May 18, 2010, to require the operator of a child care center, group child care home, or family child care home to keep and make available to parents a licensing notebook that includes all licensing, registration, inspection and special investigation reports, and corrective action plans, plus a list of any incidents from the past 10 years that required a child’s hospitalization or resulted in death.
    Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"

  5. Signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm on May 27, 2010.

Comments

Re: 2009 Senate Bill 723  by beverlytran on May 20, 2010 

Will this include child placing agencies and residential institutions in the realms of foster care?


Allow me to answer this one: No.


The reason is if foster care contracted entitites are mandated to be transparent, then they will have to be accountable, which means they would be contractually disbarred, license revocation, and even shut down.  But everyone knows, that will never happen in Michigan.  All one has to do is change the name and it is back in operation.


 


Beverly Tran



An Original Source



2009 Senate Bill 723  by admin on January 1, 2001 
Introduced in the Senate on August 5, 2009

Click here to view bill details.