PUBLIC LAW 101-189—NOV. 29, 1989 103 STAT. 1593 Communications and telecom- munications. SEC. 1504. PARENT FEES The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations establishing Regulations. fees to be charged parents for the attendance of children at military child development centers. Those regulations shall be uniform for the military departments and shall require that, in the case of children who attend the centers on a regular basis, the fees shall be based on family income. SEC. 1505. CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND SAFETY AT FACILITIES (a) CHILD ABUSE TASK FORCE.— The Secretary of Defense shall Establishment. establish and maintain a special task force to respond to allegations of widespread child abuse at a military installation. The task force shall be composed of personnel from appropriate disciplines, includ- ing, where appropriate, medicine, psychology, and childhood devel- opment. In the case of such allegations, the task force shall provide assistance to the commander of the installation, and to parents at the installation, in helping them to deal with such allegations. (b) NATIONAL HOTUNE.— (1) The Secretary of Defense shall estab- lish and maintain a national telephone number for persons to use to report suspected child abuse or safety violations at a military child development center or family home day care site. The Secretary shall ensure that such reports may be made anonjnnously if so desired by the person making the report. The Secretary shall estab- lish procedures for following up on complaints and information received over that number. (2) The Secretary shall establish such national telephone number Effective date. not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and shall publicize the existence of the number. (c) ASSISTANCE FROM LOCAL AUTHORITIES.—The Secretary of De- Regulations. fense shall prescribe regulations requiring that, in a case of allega- tions of child abuse at a military child development center or family home day care site, the commander of the military installation or the head of the task force established under subsection (a) shall seek the assistance of local child protective authorities if such assistance is available. (d) SAFETY REGULATIONS. —The Secretary of Defense shall pre- scribe regulations on safety and operating procedures at military child development centers. Those regulations shall apply uniformly among the military departments. (e) INSPECTIONS. —The Secretary of Defense shall require that each military child development center be inspected not less often than four times a year. Each such inspection shall be unannounced. At least one inspection a year shall be carried out by a representative of the installation served by the center, and one inspection a year shall be carried out by a representative of the major command under which that installation operates. (f) REMEDIES FOR VIOLATIONS.—(1) Except as provided in para- graph (2), any violation of a safety, health, or child welfare law or regulation (discovered at an inspection or otherwise) at a military child development center shall be remedied immediately. (2) In the case of a violation that is not life threatening, the commander of the major command under which the installation concerned operates may waive the requirement that the violation be remedied immediately for a period of up to 90 days beginning on the date of the discovery of the violation. If the violation is not remedied as of the end of that 90-day period, the military child development center shall be closed until the violation is remedied. The Secretary
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