The reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) includes a requirement for states to monitor the basic health and safety practices of legally operating, license-exempt programs that receive child care subsidy funds. Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) initiated the Exemption Visit Project (EVP) to collect data about basic health and safety practices from a sample of license-exempt child care programs and examine how they compared to practices in licensed child care programs. DECAL wanted the information to support its development of monitoring tools and processes for license-exempt programs that receive child care subsidies and to inform its support of nonsubsidized license-exempt programs across the state. (author abstract)