RD233 - Implementation of a Screened Family Day Home Provider Registry


Executive Summary:
Chapter 498 of the 2008 Acts of Assembly provides for DSS to create a Screened Family Day Home Provider List (List). Individuals who are not required to be licensed or regulated and who offer family day home services may voluntarily apply to be included on the List. Chapter 498 included an enactment clause that rendered it ineffective if funds were not appropriated in the general appropriation act passed by the 2008 Session of the General Assembly.

There were no funds appropriated and Chapter 498 was not implemented. However, Item 346(G) of the 2008 Appropriation Act mandated that DSS assess the financial and regulatory impact of implementing a screened family day home provider registry and the cost to family day home providers for inclusion in the registry.

Analysis of the financial impact indicated that (1) approximately $88,000 would be initially required to implement the List, (2) the List would be self-sustaining in subsequent years with collection of an offsetting initial and biennial renewal fee of between $95 to $105 paid by providers, and (3) implementing the List would have no regulatory impact.

While Item 346(G) of the 2008 Appropriation Act refers to the screened family day home provider “registry” and Chapter 498 of the 2008 Acts of Assembly refers to the screened family day home provider “list,” the terms are interchangeable and the List and the Registry are one and the same.