Anthony DeJuan Boatwright Act

Anthony DeJuan Boatwright Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require a state to include, as part of its regulatory process for issuance and renewal of licenses to providers of child care services, a recommendation to each provider that it carry current liability insurance covering the operation of its child care business.

Requires state plans for the use of child care and development block grant funds to certify that there are in effect state or local health and safety requirements that each child care provider: (1) post publicly and conspicuously in the service area of its premises a notice specifying whether it carries current liability insurance covering the operation of its child care business; and (2) give written notice to parents about whether it carries such insurance, obtain the signature of at least one parent per child acknowledging receipt of such notice, and maintain records of such signed notice while a child receives services.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1473 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1473

  To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to 
    require child care providers to provide to parents information 
  regarding whether such providers carry current liability insurance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 2007

  Mr. Barrow (for himself, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Ms. Jackson-Lee of 
 Texas, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Boren, and Mr. Courtney) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                               and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to 
    require child care providers to provide to parents information 
  regarding whether such providers carry current liability insurance.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Anthony DeJuan Boatwright Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

     Section 658e(c)(2) of the Child Care and Development Block Grant 
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858c(c)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (E)(i) by adding at the end the 
        following: ``The State shall include as part of its regulatory 
        process for issuance and renewal of licenses to providers of 
        child care services, a recommendation to each provider that it 
        carry current liability insurance.'', and
            (2) in subparagraph (F)--
                    (A) in clause (ii) by striking ``and'' at the end,
                    (B) in clause (iii) by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting a semicolon,
                    (C) by inserting after clause (iii) the following:
                            ``(iv) a requirement that each child care 
                        provider post publicly and conspicuously in the 
                        service area of its premises a notice 
                        specifying whether or not such provider carries 
                        current liability insurance applicable to its 
                        premises and its services; and
                            ``(v) requirements that each child care 
                        provider--
                                    ``(I) provide to parents of 
                                children to whom it provides child care 
                                services a written notice stating 
                                whether or not such provider carries 
                                such insurance;
                                    ``(II) obtain the signature of at 
                                least 1 parent of each such child on 
                                such written notice acknowledging that 
                                such parent has received such notice; 
                                and
                                    ``(III) maintain such notice (or a 
                                copy of such notice) as signed by such 
                                parents (or a copy of the signed 
                                notice) in such provider's records 
                                during the period in which the child 
                                receives such services and during the 
                                1-year period beginning on the date the 
                                child ceases to receive such 
                                services.'', and
                    (D) in the last sentence by inserting ``clauses 
                (i), (ii), or (iii) of'' after ``Nothing in''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

     This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
October 1 of the 1st fiscal year that begins more than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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