Bill Text: CT SB00157 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut Senate Bill 157 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: An Act Revising The Definition Of A Child Care Facility To Conform With The Definition Of A Child.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-15 - Signed by the Governor [SB00157 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-SB00157-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 157*
*February Session, 2012*		LCO No. 934
		00934_______KID
Referred to Committee on Select Committee on Children
Introduced by:
(KID)

AN ACT REVISING THE DEFINITION OF A CHILD CARE FACILITY TO CONFORM WITH THE DEFINITION OF A CHILD.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (h) of section 17a-93 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2012):

(h) "Child care facility" means a congregate residential setting licensed by the Department of Children and Families for the out-of-home placement of children or youths under eighteen years of age, or any person under twenty-one years of age who is in full-time attendance in a secondary school, a technical school, a college or state accredited job training program; [and was placed in a congregate residential setting prior to such person's eighteenth birthday;]


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2012	17a-93(h)

Statement of Purpose:

To revise the definition of a child care facility to conform with the definition of a child and permit any person not more than twenty-one years of age who is in school or a job training program to be placed in a child care facility without requiring that person to have been placed in a congregate residential setting prior to his eighteenth birthday.

[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.]