La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CLXI-1811

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section CLXI-1811 - Requests for CCCBC-Based Determinations of Eligibility for Child Care Purposes from the Department

A. An early learning center or an entity identified in §1809 shall request and obtain from the department a new CCCBC-based determination of eligibility for child care purposes for each required person:

1. prior to the person being present or performing services at the center when children are present; and

2. not less than once during a five-year period.

B. An early learning center or an entity identified in §1809 shall not be required to request and obtain from the department a new CCCBC-based determination of eligibility for child care purposes for a required person, and instead shall be able to request and obtain from the department the persons CCCBC-based determination of eligibility provided to another in-state child care provider or entity identified in §1809, if:

1. a child care provider within the state or an entity requested and obtained a CCCBC-based determination of eligibility for child care purposes from the department for the person within the past five years, while the person was seeking employment or employed by a in-state child care provider or seeking to provide or providing services at an early learning center in Louisiana for an entity;

2. the department provided to the initial requesting child care provider or entity a CCCBC-based determination indicating the person was eligible for child care purposes; and

3. the person is still employed by a child care provider within the state, or is still providing services in an early learning center within the state for an entity, or has been separated from a child care provider within the state or an entity for less than 180 consecutive days.

C. Electronic fingerprints shall be used in parishes where they are available.

D. Provisional Employment for Staff Members of Early Learning Centers

1. A center may provisionally employ as a staff member, a person for whom it has requested a CCCBC-based determination of eligibility for child care purposes, and for whom the LDOE has received a satisfactory fingerprint-based Louisiana or federal criminal history information record, pending the LDOE receipt of the other CCCBC results and determination of the person's eligibility for child care purposes, or for someone named in a deficiency for §1509 of this Part.

2. A provisionally-employed staff member may be counted in child to staff ratios, but must be monitored at all times in accordance with the following.

a. A monitor of a provisionally-employed staff member must be an adult staff member for whom the center has a CCCBC-based determination of eligibility for child care purposes within the past five years, who is designated by the center to monitor a specific provisionally-employed staff member.

b. The center must designate a monitor for each provisionally-employed staff member present at the center.

c. Repealed.

d. Monitors must supervise at all times their designated provisionally-employed staff members to be able to intervene at any time if intervention is needed.

e. - g. Repealed.

3. The center shall have a log, either handwritten or in electronic form, or other written documentation of the monitoring of provisionally-employed staff members that identifies each provisionally-employed staff member and the designated monitor for each.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CLXI-1811

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 44253 (2/1/2018), effective 3/1/2018, Amended LR 471278 (9/1/2021), Amended LR 491714 (10/1/2023), Amended LR 50969 (7/1/2024).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with 45 CFR 98.43, R.S. 15:587.1, and R.S. 17:407.42.