Private recreation programs: licensing exemption.

Existing law generally requires the State Department of Social Services to license and regulate various types of child daycare facilities, including, among others, daycare centers and family daycare homes. Existing law sets forth various fingerprinting and criminal record clearance requirements for child daycare facilities. Under existing law, a willful or repeated violation of those licensing and regulation provisions is a crime. Existing law exempts from those provisions a public recreation program, which is defined to mean a program that is operated by the state or other specified governmental or educational entities and that meets certain criteria relating to the program's hours of operation and the ages or grades of children served by the program. Existing law requires a public recreation program employer to comply with certain fingerprinting and criminal record summary requirements for its employees who have direct contact with minors. This bill would also exempt a private recreation program, using the same criteria, from the above-described licensing and regulation provisions, except for the fingerprinting and criminal record clearance requirements for child daycare facilities as applied to certain persons who, among other things, provide care and supervision for, or have contact with, children in the private recreation program, and on the condition that they be 18 years of age or older.