Full Text of SB2926 93rd General Assembly
SB2926 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 SB2926
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Jacqueline Y. Collins SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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20 ILCS 505/4b |
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225 ILCS 10/2 |
from Ch. 23, par. 2212 |
225 ILCS 10/2.09 |
from Ch. 23, par. 2212.09 |
225 ILCS 10/2.24 new |
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Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Defines "youth transitional housing program". Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Changes the definition of "child care center" and adds a definition for "partially exempt child care program".
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning child care.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended | 5 |
| by changing Section 4b as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 505/4b)
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| Sec. 4b. Youth transitional housing programs. The | 8 |
| Department may license
youth transitional housing programs . | 9 |
| For the purposes of this Section, "youth transitional housing | 10 |
| program" means a program that provides
to provide services, | 11 |
| shelter ,
or housing to homeless minors who are at least 16 | 12 |
| years of age but less than 18
years of age and who are granted | 13 |
| partial emancipation under the Emancipation of
Minors Act. The | 14 |
| Department shall adopt rules governing the licensure of those
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| programs.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-105, eff. 7-8-03.)
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| Section 10. The Child Care Act of 1969 is amended by | 18 |
| changing Sections 2 and 2.09 and by adding Section 2.24 as | 19 |
| follows:
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| (225 ILCS 10/2) (from Ch. 23, par. 2212)
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| Sec. 2. Terms used in this Act, unless the context | 22 |
| otherwise requires,
have the meanings ascribed to them in the | 23 |
| following Sections
Sections 2.01 through 2.21 .
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| (Source: P.A. 86-278; 86-386.)
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| (225 ILCS 10/2.09) (from Ch. 23, par. 2212.09)
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| Sec. 2.09. "Day care center" means any child care facility | 27 |
| which regularly
provides day care for less than 24 hours per | 28 |
| day for (1) more than 8 children
in a family home, or (2) more | 29 |
| than 3 children in a facility other than a
family home, |
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| including senior citizen buildings. The term does not include
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| (a)
programs operated by (i) public or private elementary | 3 |
| school systems or
secondary level school units or institutions | 4 |
| of higher learning that
serve children who shall have attained | 5 |
| the age of 3 years or (ii) private
entities on the grounds of | 6 |
| public or private elementary or
secondary schools and that | 7 |
| serve children who have attained the age of 3
years, except | 8 |
| that this exception applies only to the facility and not to the
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| private entities' personnel operating the program ;
(a-1) | 10 |
| partially exempt child care programs as defined in Section | 11 |
| 2.24; (b)
programs
or that portion of the program which serves | 12 |
| children who shall have attained
the age of 3 years and which | 13 |
| are recognized by the State Board of Education;
(c) educational | 14 |
| program or programs serving children who shall have attained
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| the age of 3 years and which are operated by a school which is | 16 |
| registered
with the State Board of Education and which is | 17 |
| recognized or accredited
by a recognized national or multistate
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| educational organization or association which regularly | 19 |
| recognizes or accredits
schools; (d) programs which | 20 |
| exclusively serve or that portion of the
program which serves | 21 |
| handicapped children who shall have attained the age
of 3 years | 22 |
| but are less than 21 years of age and which are registered and
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| approved as meeting standards of the State Board of Education | 24 |
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applicable fire marshal standards; (e) facilities operated | 25 |
| in connection
with a shopping center or service, religious | 26 |
| services, or other similar
facility, where transient children | 27 |
| are cared for temporarily while parents
or custodians of the | 28 |
| children are occupied on the premises and readily
available; | 29 |
| (f) any type of day care center that is
conducted on federal | 30 |
| government premises; (g) special activities
programs, | 31 |
| including athletics, crafts instruction and similar activities
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| conducted on an organized and periodic basis by civic, | 33 |
| charitable and
governmental organizations; (h) part day child | 34 |
| care facilities, as
defined in Section 2.10 of this Act; or (i) | 35 |
| programs or that portion of
the program which (1) serves | 36 |
| children who shall have attained the age of
3 years, (2) is |
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| operated by churches or religious institutions as described
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| Section 501 (c) (3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, (3) | 3 |
| receives
no governmental aid, (4) is operated as a component of | 4 |
| a religious, nonprofit
elementary school, (5) operates | 5 |
| primarily to provide religious education,
and (6) meets | 6 |
| appropriate State or local health and fire safety standards.
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| For purposes of (a), (b), (c), (d) and (i) of this Section,
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| "children who shall have attained the age of 3 years" shall | 9 |
| mean children
who are 3 years of age, but less than 4 years of | 10 |
| age, at the time of
enrollment in the program.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-659, eff. 7-16-02.)
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| (225 ILCS 10/2.24 new) | 13 |
| Sec. 2.24. Partially exempt child care program. "Partially | 14 |
| exempt child care program" means a child care program that | 15 |
| provides care for less than 24 hours per day for more than 3 | 16 |
| unrelated children who are 3 years old or older and is operated | 17 |
| by a private entity on the grounds of a public or private | 18 |
| elementary or secondary school. A partially exempt child care | 19 |
| program is exempt from standards related to the physical | 20 |
| facility, but must meet all other licensing standards in | 21 |
| Department rules for day care centers. The partially exempt | 22 |
| child care program must comply with applicable health and fire | 23 |
| safety standards for the school facility.
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