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.

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; 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 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4283 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4283

  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 28, 2012

  Mr. Barrow introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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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 covering the operation of its 
        child care business.'', 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 licensed 
                        child care provider--
                                    ``(I) post publicly and 
                                conspicuously in the service area of 
                                its premises a notice specifying 
                                whether or not such provider carries 
                                current liability insurance covering 
                                the operation of its child care 
                                business;
                                    ``(II) provide to parents of 
                                children to whom it provides child care 
                                services a written notice stating 
                                whether or not such provider carries 
                                current liability insurance covering 
                                the operation of its child care 
                                business, including the amount of any 
                                such coverage;
                                    ``(III) 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
                                    ``(IV) 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
                    (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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