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92_HB3662enr HB3662 Enrolled LRB9210792ACcd 1 AN ACT concerning child care. 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 8 facility which regularly provides day care for less than 24 9 hours per day for (1) more than 8 children in a family home, 10 or (2) more than 3 children in a facility other than a family 11 home, including senior citizen buildings. The term does not 12 include (a) programs operated by (i) public or private 13 elementary school systems or secondary level school units or 14 institutions of higher learning thatwhichserve children who 15 shall have attained the age of 3 years or (ii) private 16 entities on the grounds of public or private elementary or 17 secondary schools and that serve children who have attained 18 the age of 3 years, except that this exception applies only 19 to the facility and not to the private entities' personnel 20 operating the program; (b) programs or that portion of the 21 program which serves children who shall have attained the age 22 of 3 years and which are recognized by the State Board of 23 Education; (c) educational program or programs serving 24 children who shall have attained the age of 3 years and which 25 are operated by a school which is registered with the State 26 Board of Education and which is recognized or accredited by a 27 recognized national or multistate educational organization or 28 association which regularly recognizes or accredits schools; 29 (d) programs which exclusively serve or that portion of the 30 program which serves handicapped children who shall have 31 attained the age of 3 years but are less than 21 years of age HB3662 Enrolled -2- LRB9210792ACcd 1 and which are registered and approved as meeting standards of 2 the State Board of Education and applicable fire marshal 3 standards; (e) facilities operated in connection with a 4 shopping center or service, religious services, or other 5 similar facility, where transient children are cared for 6 temporarily while parents or custodians of the children are 7 occupied on the premises and readily available; (f) any type 8 of day care center that is conducted on federal government 9 premises; (g) special activities programs, including 10 athletics, crafts instruction and similar activities 11 conducted on an organized and periodic basis by civic, 12 charitable and governmental organizations; (h) part day child 13 care facilities, as defined in Section 2.10 of this Act; or 14 (i) programs or that portion of the program which (1) serves 15 children who shall have attained the age of 3 years, (2) is 16 operated by churches or religious institutions as described 17 in Section 501 (c) (3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, 18 (3) receives no governmental aid, (4) is operated as a 19 component of a religious, nonprofit elementary school, (5) 20 operates primarily to provide religious education, and (6) 21 meets appropriate State or local health and fire safety 22 standards. 23 For purposes of (a), (b), (c), (d) and (i) of this 24 Section, "children who shall have attained the age of 3 25 years" shall mean children who are 3 years of age, but less 26 than 4 years of age, at the time of enrollment in the 27 program. 28 (Source: P.A. 88-302.) 29 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 30 becoming law.