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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by
5changing Section 7.10 as follows:
 
6    (225 ILCS 10/7.10)
7    Sec. 7.10. Licensing orientation program and progress
8Progress report.
9    (a) For the purposes of this Section, "child day care
10licensing" or "day care licensing" means licensing of day care
11centers, day care homes, and group day care homes.
12    (a-5) In addition to current daycare training and subject
13to appropriations, the Department or any State agency that
14assumes day care center licensing responsibilities shall host
15licensing orientation programs to help educate potential day
16care center, day care home, and group day care home providers
17about the child day care licensing process. The Department or
18its successor shall host licensing orientation programs at
19least twice annually in each Representative District in the
20State.
21    (b) No later than September 30th of each year, the
22Department shall provide the General Assembly with a
23comprehensive report on its progress in meeting performance

 

 

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1measures and goals related to child day care licensing.
2    (c) The report shall include:
3        (1) details on the funding for child day care
4    licensing, including:
5            (A) the total number of full-time employees
6        working on child day care licensing;
7            (B) the names of all sources of revenue used to
8        support child day care licensing;
9            (C) the amount of expenditures that is claimed
10        against federal funding sources;
11            (D) the identity of federal funding sources; and
12            (E) how funds are appropriated, including
13        appropriations for line staff, support staff,
14        supervisory staff, and training and other expenses and
15        the funding history of such licensing since fiscal
16        year 2010;
17        (2) current staffing qualifications of day care
18    licensing representatives and day care licensing
19    supervisors in comparison with staffing qualifications
20    specified in the job description;
21        (3) data history for fiscal year 2010 to the current
22    fiscal year on day care licensing representative caseloads
23    and staffing levels in all areas of the State;
24        (4) per the DCFS Child Day Care Licensing Advisory
25    Council's work plan, quarterly data on the following
26    measures:

 

 

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1            (A) the percentage of new applications disposed of
2        within 90 days;
3            (B) the percentage of licenses renewed on time;
4            (C) the percentage of day care centers receiving
5        timely annual monitoring visits;
6            (D) the percentage of day care homes receiving
7        timely annual monitoring visits;
8            (E) the percentage of group day care homes
9        receiving timely annual monitoring visits;
10            (F) the percentage of provider requests for
11        supervisory review;
12            (G) the progress on adopting a key indicator
13        system;
14            (H) the percentage of complaints disposed of
15        within 30 days;
16            (I) the average number of days a day care center
17        applicant must wait to attend a licensing orientation;
18            (J) the number of licensing orientation sessions
19        available per region in the past year; and
20            (K) the number of Department trainings related to
21        licensing and child development available to providers
22        in the past year; and
23        (5) efforts to coordinate with the Department of Human
24    Services and the State Board of Education on professional
25    development, credentialing issues, and child developers,
26    including training registry, child developers, and Quality

 

 

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1    Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS).
2    (d) The Department shall work with the Governor's
3appointed Early Learning Council on issues related to and
4concerning child day care.
5(Source: P.A. 97-1096, eff. 8-24-12; 98-839, eff. 1-1-15.)
 
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
71, 2025.