Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB0046

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB0046

Introduced 1/9/2025, by Rep. Dan Swanson

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

225 ILCS 10/4.01

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Adds a provision that requires the Department of Early Childhood to make appropriate accommodations when an applicant for a license to operate a day care center, day care home, or group day care home requests that the application be offered in a language other than English.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by changing Section 4.01 as follows:

(225 ILCS 10/4.01)

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

Sec. 4.01. License requirement; application; notice; Department of Early Childhood.

(a) Any person, group of persons or corporation who or which receives children or arranges for care of one or more children unrelated to the operator must apply for a license to operate one of the types of facilities defined in Sections 2.09, 2.18, and 2.20.

(b) Application for a license to operate a day care center, day care home, or group day care home must be made to the Department of Early Childhood in the manner and on forms prescribed by it. If an applicant requests that the application be offered in a language other than English, the Department of Early Childhood or its successor must accommodate the request.

(c) If, upon examination of the facility and investigation of persons responsible for care of children, the Department of Early Childhood is satisfied that the facility and responsible persons reasonably meet standards prescribed for the type of facility for which application is made, it shall issue a license in proper form, designating on that license the type of child care facility and the number of children to be served at any one time.

(Source: P.A. 103-594, eff. 7-1-26.)