Bill Amendment: IL HB1654 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly

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Bill Title: REGULATION-TECH

Status: 2015-04-24 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1654 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB1654-House_Amendment_002.html

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Rep. David R. Leitch

Filed: 4/20/2015

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1654
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1654 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by
changing Section 2.09 as follows:
(225 ILCS 10/2.09) (from Ch. 23, par. 2212.09)
Sec. 2.09. "Day care center" means any child care facility
which regularly provides day care for less than 24 hours per
day for (1) more than 8 children in a family home, or (2) more
than 3 children in a facility other than a family home,
including senior citizen buildings. The term does not include
(a) programs operated by (i) public or private elementary
school systems or secondary level school units or institutions
of higher learning that serve children who shall have attained
the age of 3 years, or (ii) private entities on the grounds of
public or private elementary or secondary schools and that

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serve children who have attained the age of 3 years, except
that this exception applies only to the facility and not to the
private entities' personnel operating the program, or (iii) any
local organization of the Young Men's Christian Association in
partnership with public or private elementary or secondary
schools, regardless of the location of the program; (b)
programs or that portion of the program which serves children
who shall have attained the age of 3 years and which are
recognized by the State Board of Education; (c) educational
program or programs serving children who shall have attained
the age of 3 years and which are operated by a school which is
registered with the State Board of Education and which is
recognized or accredited by a recognized national or multistate
educational organization or association which regularly
recognizes or accredits schools; (d) programs which
exclusively serve or that portion of the program which serves
handicapped children who shall have attained the age of 3 years
but are less than 21 years of age and which are registered and
approved as meeting standards of the State Board of Education
and applicable fire marshal standards; (e) facilities operated
in connection with a shopping center or service, religious
services, or other similar facility, where transient children
are cared for temporarily while parents or custodians of the
children are occupied on the premises and readily available;
(f) any type of day care center that is conducted on federal
government premises; (g) special activities programs,

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including athletics, crafts instruction and similar activities
conducted on an organized and periodic basis by civic,
charitable and governmental organizations; (h) part day child
care facilities, as defined in Section 2.10 of this Act; or (i)
programs or that portion of the program which (1) serves
children who shall have attained the age of 3 years, (2) is
operated by churches or religious institutions as described in
Section 501 (c) (3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, (3)
receives no governmental aid, (4) is operated as a component of
a religious, nonprofit elementary school, (5) operates
primarily to provide religious education, and (6) meets
appropriate State or local health and fire safety standards.
For purposes of (a), (b), (c), (d) and (i) of this Section,
"children who shall have attained the age of 3 years" shall
mean children who are 3 years of age, but less than 4 years of
age, at the time of enrollment in the program.
(Source: P.A. 92-659, eff. 7-16-02.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".