Full Text of HB1654 99th General Assembly
HB1654ham001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. David R. Leitch Filed: 4/14/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1654
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1654 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 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 |
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| 1 | | serve children who have attained the age of 3
years, except | 2 | | that this exception applies only to the facility and not to the
| 3 | | private entities' personnel operating the program , or (iii) any | 4 | | local organization of the Young Men's Christian Association in | 5 | | partnership with public or private elementary or secondary | 6 | | schools, regardless of the location of the program ;
(b)
| 7 | | programs
or that portion of the program which serves children | 8 | | who shall have attained
the age of 3 years and which are | 9 | | recognized by the State Board of Education;
(c) educational | 10 | | program or programs serving children who shall have attained
| 11 | | the age of 3 years and which are operated by a school which is | 12 | | registered
with the State Board of Education and which is | 13 | | recognized or accredited
by a recognized national or multistate
| 14 | | educational organization or association which regularly | 15 | | recognizes or accredits
schools; (d) programs which | 16 | | exclusively serve or that portion of the
program which serves | 17 | | handicapped children who shall have attained the age
of 3 years | 18 | | but are less than 21 years of age and which are registered and
| 19 | | approved as meeting standards of the State Board of Education | 20 | | and
applicable fire marshal standards; (e) facilities operated | 21 | | in connection
with a shopping center or service, religious | 22 | | services, or other similar
facility, where transient children | 23 | | are cared for temporarily while parents
or custodians of the | 24 | | children are occupied on the premises and readily
available; | 25 | | (f) any type of day care center that is
conducted on federal | 26 | | government premises; (g) special activities
programs, |
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| 1 | | including athletics, crafts instruction and similar activities
| 2 | | conducted on an organized and periodic basis by civic, | 3 | | charitable and
governmental organizations; (h) part day child | 4 | | care facilities, as
defined in Section 2.10 of this Act; or (i) | 5 | | programs or that portion of
the program which (1) serves | 6 | | children who shall have attained the age of
3 years, (2) is | 7 | | operated by churches or religious institutions as described
in | 8 | | Section 501 (c) (3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, (3) | 9 | | receives
no governmental aid, (4) is operated as a component of | 10 | | a religious, nonprofit
elementary school, (5) operates | 11 | | primarily to provide religious education,
and (6) meets | 12 | | appropriate State or local health and fire safety standards.
| 13 | | For purposes of (a), (b), (c), (d) and (i) of this Section,
| 14 | | "children who shall have attained the age of 3 years" shall | 15 | | mean children
who are 3 years of age, but less than 4 years of | 16 | | age, at the time of
enrollment in the program.
| 17 | | (Source: P.A. 92-659, eff. 7-16-02.)
| 18 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 19 | | becoming law.".
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