Bill Text: CT HB05293 | 2011 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Extending The "care 4 Kids" Program To Families With A Parent Who Is Actively Seeking Employment.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-04 - Public Hearing 02/08 [HB05293 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2011-HB05293-Comm_Sub.html
General Assembly |
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January Session, 2011 |
LCO No. 2858 | ||
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Referred to Committee on Select Committee on Children |
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Introduced by: |
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AN ACT EXTENDING THE "CARE 4 KIDS" PROGRAM TO FAMILIES WITH A PARENT WHO IS ACTIVELY SEEKING EMPLOYMENT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 17b-749 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2011):
(a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall establish and operate a child care subsidy program to increase the availability, affordability and quality of child care services for families with a parent or caretaker who is working, actively seeking employment, attending high school or who receives cash assistance under the temporary family assistance program from the Department of Social Services and is participating in an approved education, training, or other job preparation activity. Services available under the child care program shall include the provision of child care subsidies for children under the age of thirteen or children under the age of nineteen with special needs. The department shall open and maintain enrollment for the child care subsidy program and shall administer such program within the existing budgetary resources available. The department shall issue a notice on the department's Internet web site and shall provide written notice to recipients of program benefits and to service providers any time the department closes the program to new applications, changes eligibility requirements or changes program benefits, provided the department shall not be required to issue such notice when the department expands program eligibility. Any change in the department's acceptance of new applications, eligibility requirements or program benefits for which the department is required to give notice pursuant to this subsection, shall not be effective until thirty days after the department issues such notice.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2011 |
17b-749(a) |
Statement of Purpose:
To extend the "Care 4 Kids" child care subsidy program to assist parents who are actively seeking employment.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]
REP. GROGINS, 129th Dist.; SEN. MUSTO, 22nd Dist. REP. O'BRIEN E., 61st Dist. |