Child care: exemption from licensure: public recreation programs.
Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, prescribes licensure requirements for the operation of child day care facilities, day care centers, and family day care homes. The act exempts specified facilities and arrangements, including public recreation programs that meet certain criteria, from its provisions. Existing law exempts a public recreation program operated as prescribed for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, that operates less than 16 hours per week and for a total of 12 weeks or less during a 12-month period.
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20112012
AB 1991
California AB 1991 (20112012)
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Child care: exemption from licensure: public recreation programs.
California AB 1991 (20112012) — Child care: exemption from licensure: public recreation programs.
Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, prescribes licensure requirements for the operation of child day care facilities, day care centers, and family day care homes. The act exempts specified facilities and arrangements, including public recreation programs that meet certain criteria, from its provisions. Existing law exempts a public recreation program operated as prescribed for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, that operates less than 16 hours per week and for a total of 12 weeks or less during a 12-month period.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 1991 SMYTH Consent Calendar Second Day — 72–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Smyth — primary (person)
Hall — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
2012-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-04-25 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-04-26 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2012-05-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4675.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2012-05-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2012-05-17 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
2012-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-06-25 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
2012-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2012-06-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4183.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2012-06-28 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2012-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
2012-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2012-07-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 122, Statutes of 2012.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a1b8032c-74bd-45de-b64a-fde7b38e43d1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).