Care facilities: carbon monoxide detectors.

Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including residential facilities, adult day programs, foster family homes, community treatment facilities, and others, and for the licensing and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly and residential care facilities for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness, by the State Department of Social Services. Violation of the provisions relating to residential care facilities for the elderly and residential care facilities for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness is a misdemeanor. Existing law also provides for the licensing and regulation of day care centers and family day care homes by the department. Existing law requires day care centers and family day care homes to have specified fire prevention devices. This bill would require community care facilities, residential care facilities for the elderly, residential care facilities for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness, and day care centers and family day care homes to have one or more functioning carbon monoxide detectors that meet specified statutory requirements in the facility and would require the department to account for the presence of the detectors during inspections. By creating a new crime, with respect to residential care facilities for the elderly and residential care facilities for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.