(a) For purposes of this section, the Public Employment Relations Board, as established pursuant to § 3541 of the Government Code, shall determine if an entity seeking information is a provider organization within the meaning of subdivision (d) of Section 10421 as follows:

(1) The general counsel of the Public Employment Relations Board shall have the authority to determine if an organization is a provider organization upon application by that organization. The general counsel shall issue their determination within 10 days of receiving the application.

Ask a business law question, get an answer ASAP!
Thousands of highly rated, verified business lawyers.
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

(2) If an organization is determined not to be a provider organization, the general counsel of the Public Employment Relations Board shall state the reasons for this determination. An applicant determined not to be a provider organization may appeal this adverse determination to the board within 30 days of the determination.

(3) Once a provider organization has been determined to be a provider organization by the general counsel of the Public Employment Relations Board, this determination shall remain valid for one year.

(b) Within 10 days of receipt of a request from a provider organization determined to be such by the Public Employment Relations Board in accordance with subdivision (a), the department shall make available in manipulable electronic format to that provider organization information regarding all providers of a family child care home, as defined in § 1596.78 of the Health and Safety Code, who are licensed pursuant to the requirement in § 1596.80 of the Health and Safety Code. The information shall include the name; home address; mailing address; county; home, if known, work, and cellular telephone numbers; email address, if known; and state facility license number of each provider of a family child care home.

(c) (1) Upon receipt of a request from a provider organization, department and any other state department or agency administering a state-funded early care and education program, with the assistance of any contractors or subcontractors and any political subdivisions of the state that are administering a state-funded early care and education program, shall immediately commence collecting information regarding any individual who has been a family child care provider, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 10421, within the preceding three months, including each family child care provider’s name; home address; mailing address; county; home, if known, work, and cellular telephone numbers; email address, if known; the agency, contractor, subcontractor, or political subdivision of the state administering the state-funded early care and education program in which the provider participates; the date the provider began subsidy care; the date the provider ended subsidy care, if applicable; whether the provider is licensed or not; the unique provider identification number, if applicable; and the state facility license number, if known. The department and any other state department or agency administering a state-funded early care and education program, with the assistance of any contractors or subcontractors and any political subdivisions of the state administering a state-funded early care and education program, shall make reasonable efforts to collect the information under this subdivision in a timely manner.

(2) Within 60 days of receipt of an initial request from a provider organization, the department and any other state department or agency administering a state-funded early care and education program shall make available to the provider organization, in a manipulable electronic format unless demonstrably impracticable to do so, all of the information described in paragraph (1) that is available based on the reasonable efforts of the department, and any other state department or agency administering a state-funded early care and education program to collect the information.

(3) As soon as it is in the possession of the department or any other state department or agency administering a state-funded early care and education program, the department and any other state department or agency administering a state-funded early care and education program shall make available to the provider organization any information described in paragraph (1) that cannot be reasonably collected within 60 days.

(d) Following an initial request as described in subdivision (c), but no earlier than 90 days following receipt of that request, the department and any other state department or agency administering a state-funded early care and education program shall use reasonable efforts to continue to collect and make available to the requesting provider organization, in a manipulable electronic format, unless demonstrably impracticable to do so, an updated list of the information described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c), as of that date, monthly unless more frequent or more detailed lists are required by an agreement with a provider organization.

(e) This section does not permit an agency, department, contractor, subcontractor, or a political subdivision of the state to delay or obstruct the collection or provision to a provider organization of information pursuant to subdivisions (c) and (d).

(f) The department and any other state department or agency administering a state-funded early care and education program, with the assistance of any contractors or subcontractors and any political subdivisions of the state that are administering a state-funded early care and education program, shall provide a certified provider organization, for each family child care provider within an appropriate unit, as described by Section 10424, the family child care provider’s name; home address; mailing address; county; home, if known, work, and cellular telephone numbers; email address, if known; the agency, contractor, subcontractor, or political subdivision administering the state-funded early care and education program in which the provider participates; the date the provider began subsidy care; the date the provider ended subsidy care, if applicable; whether the provider is licensed or not; the unique provider identification number, if applicable; and the state facility license number, if known. An updated list of this information shall be provided to the certified provider organization in a manipulable electronic format on a monthly basis unless more frequent or more detailed lists are required by an agreement between the Governor or the Governor’s designee and the certified provider organization.

(g) If a provider organization has been certified as the representative of family child care providers in an appropriate unit, subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) shall not apply to requests by other provider organizations.

(h) This section does not preclude a provider organization and the Governor or the Governor’s designee from agreeing to a different interval within which the department and any other state department or agency administering a state-funded early care and education program must provide the provider organization with this information.

(i) Any information regarding providers of small family child care homes, as defined in § 1596.78 of the Health and Safety Code, that is made available to the provider organization under this section shall be provided in a manner consistent with § 1596.86 of the Health and Safety Code.

(j) The information provided under this section shall be provided in a manner consistent with § 6207 of the Government Code for a participant in the address confidentiality program established pursuant to Chapter 3.1 (commencing with Section 6205) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code.

(k) Upon receipt of a written request by a family child care provider, the department and any other state department or agency administering a state-funded early care and education program shall remove the family child care provider’s home and mailing address; home, work, and cellular telephone numbers; and email address from any lists subsequently made available to a provider organization pursuant to subdivisions (c) and (d).

(l) The Public Employment Relations Board shall have initial exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any disputes arising among the provider organization, the Governor or the Governor’s designated representative, the department, any other agency, department, contractor, subcontractor, or any political subdivision of the state administering a state-funded early care and education program, and family child care providers regarding lists of family child care providers given to the provider organization pursuant to this section.

(m) The Public Employment Relations Board shall perform its duties under this section consistent with its regulations and shall have the authority to make additional regulations. The board may also adopt, amend, or repeal all rules and regulations necessary to carry out this chapter as emergency regulations in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code). The adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations pursuant to this subdivision is conclusively presumed to be necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or general welfare within the meaning of § 11346.1 of the Government Code.

(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 116, Sec. 260. (AB 131) Effective July 23, 2021.)