Bills Signed Into Law...

Public Act 128 of 2005 (SB 615) Child Care Crime (Hardiman)  Requires criminal background checks for licensees, employees, and certain contract workers at child care centers and day care centers.  Effective 10/5/05.

Public Act 133 of 2005 (HB 4936) Child Care Background Check (Baxter)  Requires criminal background checks for licensees, employees, and certain contact workers at child care centers and day care centers.  Effective 10/5/05. 

Public Act 134 of 2005 (HB 4958)  Child Care Crime (Caul) Enacts crime of child care center or day care center employee failing to self-report certain criminal charges.  Effective 10/5/05.

Public Act 119 of 2006 (SB 328)  Early Intervention Programs (Hardiman) Allows school aid funds to be allocated to early intervention programs. Effective 4/14/06.

Public Act 120 of 2006 (SB 329) Early Intervention Grant Program (Cassis) Establishes a grant program for early intervention programs and allows certain funds for small class size to be used for early intervention programs. Effective 4/14/06.

Public Act 121 of 2006 (SB 330) Early Intervention Programs (Kuipers) Requires a percentage of at-risk funds to be used for early intervention programs in districts with a learning-disabled population above state average. Effective 4/14/06.

Public Act 580 of 2006 (HB 6174) Background Checks (Schuitmaker) Requires that criminal history checks and criminal record checks for child care providers be performed only once if the person remains licensed continuously and is required to follow school code procedures if provider is operating in a school.  Signed 12/30/06; Effective 12/30/06.

Bills in Action...

SB 613 Child Care Crime (Brown)  Enacts sentencing guidelines for crime of child care center or day care center employee failing to self-report certain felony charges.  Action: Introduced and referred to the Families and Human Services Committee (6/16/05).    Reported favorably without recommendation (6/29/05).  Passed by the Senate (6/30/05).   Notice of intent to discharge (12/12/06).  Discharged from Judiciary (12/13/06).  Passed (12/14/06). Enrolled with Substitute H-1 concurred (12/14/06).  Presented to the Governor (12/21/06).  Will not take affect.  Bill was tie-barred to SB 1253.  A similar bill was signed into law as P.A. 134 of 2005.  Pocket vetoed 01/05/07.

SB 614 Child Care Crime (Hammerstrom)    Requires day dare employees to report charged crimes.  Action:  Introduced and referred to the Families and Human Services Committee (6/16/05).  Reported with recommendation with substitution S-1 (6/29/05).  Substituion S-1 adopted (6/29/05).  Passed by the Senate (6/30/05). Referred to the House Judiciary Committee (6/30/05).

SB 1253 Child Care Violations (Hardiman) Establishes requirement for licenses and registrants to notify parents of rule violations and investigations at child care facilities. Introduced and referred to the Families and Human Services Committee (5/4/06). Reported with Substitute S-1 (9/13/06). Reported in the House (12/12/06). Passed (12/14/06). Enrolled (12/14/06).  Enrollment invalidated (12/28/06).

SR 114 Young Child (Birkholz) Designates April as Month of the Young Child. Adopted by the Senate (4/18/06).

SR 161 Year of the Child (Toy) Declares 2007 as the Year of the Child in Michigan.  Adopted (9/6/06).

Other Introduced Legislation...

SB 66 Child Care Cost (Jelinek)  This bill requires certain child care cost to be paid in full by recipients of services or financial assistance.  Introduced and referred to the Families and Human Services Committee. (1/25/05).

SB 112 Child Care Loans (Thomas)  This bill provides for guaranteed loans for child care programs, creating Child Loan Guarantee Commission.  Introduced and referred to the Families and Human Services Committee.(1/27/05). 

SB 504 Child Care Licensing (Olshove)  This bill requires that no license would be granted to a child care provider applicant, owner, partner or director of the applicant who had been convicted of child abuse or neglect, or a felony involving harm or threatened harm to an individual.  Introduced and referred to the Families and Human Services Committee (5/17/05).

HB 5425 Day Care Ratings (Angerer) This bill requires Department of Human Services to establish a public rating system for child care centers, day care centers, family day care homes and group day care homes.  Introduced and referred to the Family and Children Services Committee (11/10/05).

HB 6285 At-risk Pupil Funding (Meyer) Provides for general and federal fund allocation toward services for parents of children age zero to three who live in school districts with a high percentage rate of at-risk pupils.  Introduced and referred to Education Committee (6/29/06).

HB 6641 Family Daycare (Gosselin) Revises number of children eligible for family day care homes.  Introduced and referred to Family and Children Services Committee (11/14/06).