Senate Bill No. 850
Public Act No. 19-122
AN ACT CONCERNING AN EXEMPTION FROM THE L ICENSING
REQUIREMENTS FOR CHI LD CARE SERVICES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 19a-77 of the general statutes is
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from
passage):
(b) For licensing requirement purposes, child care services shall not
include such services which are:
(1) (A) Administered by a public school system, or (B) administered
by a municipal agency or department;
(2) Administered by a private school which is in compliance with
section 10-188 and is approved by the State Board of Education or is
accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the State Board of
Education, provided the provision of such child care services by the
private school is only to those children whose ages are covered under
such approval or accreditation;
(3) Classes in music, dance, drama and art that are no longer than
two hours in length; classes that teach a single skill that are no longer
than two hours in length; library programs that are no longer than two Senate Bill No. 850
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hours in length; scouting; programs that offer exclusively sports
activities; rehearsals; academic tutoring programs; or programs
exclusively for children thirteen years of age or older;
(4) Informal arrangements among neighbors and formal or informal
arrangements among relatives in their own homes, provided the
relative is limited to any of the following degrees of kinship by blood,
marriage or court order to the child being cared for: Grandparent,
great-grandparent, sibling, aunt or uncle;
(5) Supplementary child care operations for educational or
recreational purposes and the child receives such care infrequently
where the parents are on the premises;
(6) Supplementary child care operations in retail establishments
where the parents remain in the same store as the child for retail
shopping, provided the drop-in supplementary child-care operation
does not charge a fee and does not refer to itself as a child care center;
(7) Administered by a nationally chartered boys' and girls' club that
are exclusively for school-age children;
(8) Religious educational activities administered by a religious
institution exclusively for children whose parents or legal guardians
are members of such religious institution;
(9) Administered by Solar Youth, Inc., a New Haven -based
nonprofit youth development and environmental education
organization;
(10) Programs administered by organizations under contract with
the Department of Social Services pursuant to section 17b-851a that
promote the reduction of teenage pregnancy through the provision of
services to persons who are ten to nineteen years of age, inclusive; Senate Bill No. 850
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(11) Administered by the Cardinal Shehan Center, a Bridgeport-
based nonprofit organization that is exclusively for school-age children
exclusively for school-age children; [or]
(12) Administered by Organized Parents Make a Difference, Inc., a
Hartford-based nonprofit organization that is exclusively for school-
age children; or
(13) Administered by Leadership, Education and Athletics in
Partnership, Inc., a New Haven-based nonprofit youth development
organization.