Full Text of SB2321 99th General Assembly
SB2321 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 SB2321 Introduced 1/27/2016, by Sen. Dave Syverson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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225 ILCS 10/2.09 | from Ch. 23, par. 2212.09 |
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Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that, for the purposes of defining "day care center", "special activities programs" includes programs or portions of programs that: (1) serve school-age children only; (2) are operated by an entity that is a local affiliate of a national organization and a non-profit as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and (3) meet appropriate State or local health and fire safety standards and those of its associated national entity, including performing background checks on employees. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 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 | 17 | | serve children who have attained the age of 3
years, except | 18 | | that this exception applies only to the facility and not to the
| 19 | | private entities' personnel operating the program;
(b)
| 20 | | programs
or that portion of the program which serves children | 21 | | who shall have attained
the age of 3 years and which are | 22 | | recognized by the State Board of Education;
(c) educational | 23 | | program or programs serving children who shall have attained
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| 1 | | the age of 3 years and which are operated by a school which is | 2 | | registered
with the State Board of Education and which is | 3 | | recognized or accredited
by a recognized national or multistate
| 4 | | educational organization or association which regularly | 5 | | recognizes or accredits
schools; (d) programs which | 6 | | exclusively serve or that portion of the
program which serves | 7 | | children with disabilities who shall have attained the age
of 3 | 8 | | years but are less than 21 years of age and which are | 9 | | registered and
approved as meeting standards of the State Board | 10 | | of Education and
applicable fire marshal standards; (e) | 11 | | facilities operated in connection
with a shopping center or | 12 | | service, religious services, or other similar
facility, where | 13 | | transient children are cared for temporarily while parents
or | 14 | | custodians of the children are occupied on the premises and | 15 | | readily
available; (f) any type of day care center that is
| 16 | | conducted on federal government premises; (g) special | 17 | | activities
programs, including athletics, crafts instruction | 18 | | and similar activities
conducted on an organized and periodic | 19 | | basis by civic, charitable and
governmental organizations; (h) | 20 | | part day child care facilities, as
defined in Section 2.10 of | 21 | | this Act; or (i) programs or that portion of
the program which | 22 | | (1) serves children who shall have attained the age of
3 years, | 23 | | (2) is operated by churches or religious institutions as | 24 | | described
in Section 501 (c) (3) of the federal Internal | 25 | | Revenue Code, (3) receives
no governmental aid, (4) is operated | 26 | | as a component of a religious, nonprofit
elementary school, (5) |
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| 1 | | operates primarily to provide religious education,
and (6) | 2 | | meets appropriate State or local health and fire safety | 3 | | standards.
| 4 | | For purposes of (a), (b), (c), (d) and (i) of this Section,
| 5 | | "children who shall have attained the age of 3 years" shall | 6 | | mean children
who are 3 years of age, but less than 4 years of | 7 | | age, at the time of
enrollment in the program.
| 8 | | For purposes of (g) of this Section, "special activities | 9 | | programs" includes programs or portions of programs that: (1) | 10 | | serve school-age children only; (2) are operated by an entity | 11 | | that is a local affiliate of a national organization and a | 12 | | non-profit as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the federal | 13 | | Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and (3) meet appropriate State | 14 | | or local health and fire safety standards and those of its | 15 | | associated national entity, including performing background | 16 | | checks on employees. Organizations within this exemption must | 17 | | retain child care assistance eligibility. | 18 | | (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 | | becoming law.
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