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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:
| | | 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. |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 4.01 as follows:
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| 6 | | (225 ILCS 10/4.01) |
| 7 | | (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a |
| 8 | | delayed effective date) |
| 9 | | Sec. 4.01. License requirement; application; notice; |
| 10 | | Department of Early Childhood. |
| 11 | | (a) Any person, group of persons or corporation who or |
| 12 | | which receives children or arranges for care of one or more |
| 13 | | children unrelated to the operator must apply for a license to |
| 14 | | operate one of the types of facilities defined in Sections |
| 15 | | 2.09, 2.18, and 2.20. |
| 16 | | (b) Application for a license to operate a day care |
| 17 | | center, day care home, or group day care home must be made to |
| 18 | | the Department of Early Childhood in the manner and on forms |
| 19 | | prescribed by it. If an applicant requests that the |
| 20 | | application be offered in a language other than English, the |
| 21 | | Department of Early Childhood or its successor must |
| 22 | | accommodate the request. |
| 23 | | (c) If, upon examination of the facility and investigation |
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| 1 | | of persons responsible for care of children, the Department of |
| 2 | | Early Childhood is satisfied that the facility and responsible |
| 3 | | persons reasonably meet standards prescribed for the type of |
| 4 | | facility for which application is made, it shall issue a |
| 5 | | license in proper form, designating on that license the type |
| 6 | | of child care facility and the number of children to be served |
| 7 | | at any one time. |
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 103-594, eff. 7-1-26.) |
