Full Text of HB3595 99th General Assembly
HB3595 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 HB3595 Introduced , by Rep. Keith P. Sommer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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225 ILCS 10/2.09 | from Ch. 23, par. 2212.09 |
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Amends the Child Care Act. Provides that the following are not a day care center for the purposes of the Act: (1) a recreational facility that allows its facilities to be used by children outside of structured activities; and (2) a public or private school that allows its facilities to be used by children for recreational activities outside of school hours or on days when school is not in session and the recreational activities are not school-sponsored activities. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 2.09 as follows:
| 6 | | (225 ILCS 10/2.09) (from Ch. 23, par. 2212.09)
| 7 | | Sec. 2.09.
"Day care center" means any child care facility | 8 | | which regularly
provides day care for less than 24 hours per | 9 | | day for (1) more than 8 children
in a family home, or (2) more | 10 | | than 3 children in a facility other than a
family home, | 11 | | including senior citizen buildings. The term does not include
| 12 | | (a)
programs operated by (i) public or private elementary | 13 | | school systems or
secondary level school units or institutions | 14 | | of higher learning that
serve children who shall have attained | 15 | | the age of 3 years or (ii) private
entities on the grounds of | 16 | | public or private elementary or
secondary schools and that | 17 | | serve children who have attained the age of 3
years, except | 18 | | that this exception applies only to the facility and not to the
| 19 | | private entities' personnel operating the program;
(b)
| 20 | | programs
or that portion of the program which serves children | 21 | | who shall have attained
the age of 3 years and which are | 22 | | recognized by the State Board of Education;
(c) educational | 23 | | program or programs serving children who shall have attained
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| 1 | | the age of 3 years and which are operated by a school which is | 2 | | registered
with the State Board of Education and which is | 3 | | recognized or accredited
by a recognized national or multistate
| 4 | | educational organization or association which regularly | 5 | | recognizes or accredits
schools; (d) programs which | 6 | | exclusively serve or that portion of the
program which serves | 7 | | handicapped children who shall have attained the age
of 3 years | 8 | | but are less than 21 years of age and which are registered and
| 9 | | approved as meeting standards of the State Board of Education | 10 | | and
applicable fire marshal standards; (e) facilities operated | 11 | | in connection
with a shopping center or service, religious | 12 | | services, or other similar
facility, where transient children | 13 | | are cared for temporarily while parents
or custodians of the | 14 | | children are occupied on the premises and readily
available; | 15 | | (f) any type of day care center that is
conducted on federal | 16 | | government premises; (g) special activities
programs, | 17 | | including athletics, crafts instruction and similar activities
| 18 | | conducted on an organized and periodic basis by civic, | 19 | | charitable and
governmental organizations; (h) part day child | 20 | | care facilities, as
defined in Section 2.10 of this Act; or (i) | 21 | | programs or that portion of
the program which (1) serves | 22 | | children who shall have attained the age of
3 years, (2) is | 23 | | operated by churches or religious institutions as described
in | 24 | | Section 501 (c) (3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, (3) | 25 | | receives
no governmental aid, (4) is operated as a component of | 26 | | a religious, nonprofit
elementary school, (5) operates |
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| 1 | | primarily to provide religious education,
and (6) meets | 2 | | appropriate State or local health and fire safety standards.
| 3 | | For purposes of (a), (b), (c), (d) and (i) of this Section,
| 4 | | "children who shall have attained the age of 3 years" shall | 5 | | mean children
who are 3 years of age, but less than 4 years of | 6 | | age, at the time of
enrollment in the program.
| 7 | | Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the | 8 | | following are not a day care center for the purposes of this | 9 | | Act: | 10 | | (1) a recreational facility that allows its facilities | 11 | | to be used by children outside of structured activities; | 12 | | and | 13 | | (2) a public or private school that allows its | 14 | | facilities to be used by children for recreational | 15 | | activities outside of school hours or on days when school | 16 | | is not in session and the recreational activities are not | 17 | | school-sponsored activities. | 18 | | (Source: P.A. 92-659, eff. 7-16-02.)
| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 | | becoming law.
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