Bill Text: CT SB00258 | 2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Licensing Of Child Care Facilities.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-01 - Referred by Senate to Committee on Children [SB00258 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2016-SB00258-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Raised Bill No. 258 | ||
February Session, 2016 |
LCO No. 2025 | ||
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Referred to Committee on HOUSING |
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AN ACT BROADENING THE DEFINITION OF CHILD CARE FACILITY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 17a-93 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2016):
As used in sections 17a-90 to 17a-121a, inclusive, and sections 17a-145 to 17a-153, inclusive:
(1) "Child" means any person under eighteen years of age, except as otherwise specified, 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 a state-accredited job training program;
(2) "Parent" means natural or adoptive parent;
(3) "Adoption" means the establishment by court order of the legal relationship of parent and child;
(4) "Guardianship" means guardianship, unless otherwise specified, of the person of a minor and refers to the obligation of care and control, the right to custody and the duty and authority to make major decisions affecting such minor's welfare, including, but not limited to, consent determinations regarding marriage, enlistment in the armed forces and major medical, psychiatric or surgical treatment;
(5) "Termination of parental rights" means the complete severance by court order of the legal relationship, with all its rights and responsibilities, between the child and his parent or parents so that the child is free for adoption except it shall not affect the right of inheritance of such child or the religious affiliation of such child;
(6) "Statutory parent" means the Commissioner of Children and Families or that child-placing agency appointed by the court for the purpose of giving a minor child or minor children in adoption;
(7) "Child-placing agency" means any agency within or without the state of Connecticut licensed or approved by the Commissioner of Children and Families in accordance with sections 17a-149 and 17a-151, and in accordance with such standards which shall be established by regulations of the Department of Children and Families;
(8) "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, or any person under twenty-five years of age who is currently homeless, as defined in section 17a-484a;
(9) "Protective supervision" means a status created by court order following adjudication of neglect whereby a child's place of abode is not changed but assistance directed at correcting the neglect is provided at the request of the court through the Department of Children and Families or such other social agency as the court may specify;
(10) "Receiving home" means a facility operated by the Department of Children and Families to receive and temporarily care for children in the guardianship or care of the commissioner;
(11) "Protective services" means public welfare services provided after complaints of abuse, neglect or abandonment, but in the absence of an adjudication or assumption of jurisdiction by a court;
(12) "Person responsible for the health, welfare or care of a child or youth" means a child's or a youth's parent, guardian or foster parent; an employee of a public or private residential home, agency or institution or other person legally responsible in a residential setting; or any staff person providing out-of-home care, including center-based child day care, family day care or group day care, as defined in section 19a-77;
(13) "Foster family" means a person or persons, licensed by the Department of Children and Families or approved by a licensed child-placing agency, for the care of a child or children in a private home;
(14) "Prospective adoptive family" means a person or persons, licensed by the Department of Children and Families or approved by a licensed child-placing agency, who is awaiting the placement of, or who has a child or children placed in their home for the purposes of adoption; and
(15) "Person entrusted with the care of a child or youth" means a person given access to a child or youth by a person responsible for the health, welfare or care of a child or youth for the purpose of providing education, child care, counseling, spiritual guidance, coaching, training, instruction, tutoring or mentoring of such child or youth.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
October 1, 2016 |
17a-93 |
Statement of Purpose:
To broaden the definition of "child care facility" to include persons under twenty-five years of age who are currently homeless.
[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.]