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Full Text of HB3595  99th General Assembly

HB3595 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  

 


 
99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3595

 

Introduced , by Rep. Keith P. Sommer

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
225 ILCS 10/2.09  from Ch. 23, par. 2212.09

    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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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by
5changing 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
8which regularly provides day care for less than 24 hours per
9day for (1) more than 8 children in a family home, or (2) more
10than 3 children in a facility other than a family home,
11including senior citizen buildings. The term does not include
12(a) programs operated by (i) public or private elementary
13school systems or secondary level school units or institutions
14of higher learning that serve children who shall have attained
15the age of 3 years or (ii) private entities on the grounds of
16public or private elementary or secondary schools and that
17serve children who have attained the age of 3 years, except
18that this exception applies only to the facility and not to the
19private entities' personnel operating the program; (b)
20programs or that portion of the program which serves children
21who shall have attained the age of 3 years and which are
22recognized by the State Board of Education; (c) educational
23program or programs serving children who shall have attained

 

 

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1the age of 3 years and which are operated by a school which is
2registered with the State Board of Education and which is
3recognized or accredited by a recognized national or multistate
4educational organization or association which regularly
5recognizes or accredits schools; (d) programs which
6exclusively serve or that portion of the program which serves
7handicapped children who shall have attained the age of 3 years
8but are less than 21 years of age and which are registered and
9approved as meeting standards of the State Board of Education
10and applicable fire marshal standards; (e) facilities operated
11in connection with a shopping center or service, religious
12services, or other similar facility, where transient children
13are cared for temporarily while parents or custodians of the
14children are occupied on the premises and readily available;
15(f) any type of day care center that is conducted on federal
16government premises; (g) special activities programs,
17including athletics, crafts instruction and similar activities
18conducted on an organized and periodic basis by civic,
19charitable and governmental organizations; (h) part day child
20care facilities, as defined in Section 2.10 of this Act; or (i)
21programs or that portion of the program which (1) serves
22children who shall have attained the age of 3 years, (2) is
23operated by churches or religious institutions as described in
24Section 501 (c) (3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, (3)
25receives no governmental aid, (4) is operated as a component of
26a religious, nonprofit elementary school, (5) operates

 

 

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1primarily to provide religious education, and (6) meets
2appropriate 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
5mean children who are 3 years of age, but less than 4 years of
6age, at the time of enrollment in the program.
7    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the
8following are not a day care center for the purposes of this
9Act:
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
20becoming law.