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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 933
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 3913
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
(ED)
AN ACT EXPANDING ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN FAMILIES IN THE
CARE4KIDS PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsections (a) and (b) of section 17b-749 of the general 1
statutes are repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof 2
(Effective July 1, 2019): 3
(a) The Commissioner of Early Childhood shall establish and 4
operate a child care subsidy program to increase the availability, 5
affordability and quality of child care services for families with a 6
parent or caretaker who (1) is working or attending high school, or (2) 7
receives cash assistance under the temporary family assistance 8
program from the Department of Social Services and is participating in 9
an education, training or other job preparation activity approved 10
pursuant to subsection (b) of section 17b-688i or subsection (b) of 11
section 17b-689d. Services available under the child care subsidy 12
program shall include the provision of child care subsidies for children 13
under the age of thirteen or children under the age of nineteen with 14
special needs. The Office of Early Childhood shall open and maintain 15
enrollment for the child care subsidy program and shall administer 16 Raised Bill No. 933
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such program within the existing budgetary resources available. The 17
office shall issue a notice on the office's Internet web site any time the 18
office closes the program to new applications, changes eligibility 19
requirements, changes program benefits or makes any other change to 20
the program's status or terms. [, except the office shall not be required 21
to issue such notice when the office expands program eligibility.] Any 22
change in the office's acceptance of new applications, eligibility 23
requirements, program benefits or any other change to the program's 24
status or terms for which the office is required to give notice pursuant 25
to this subsection, shall not be effective until thirty days after the office 26
issues such notice. 27
(b) The commissioner shall establish income standards for 28
applicants and recipients at a level to include a family with gross 29
income up to [fifty] seventy-five per cent of the state-wide median 30
income, except the commissioner (1) [may increase the income level to 31
up to seventy-five per cent of the state-wide median income, (2)] upon 32
the request of the Commissioner of Children and Families, may waive 33
the income standards for adoptive families so that children adopted on 34
or after October 1, 1999, from the Department of Children and Families 35
are eligible for the child care subsidy program, and [(3)] (2) on and 36
after March 1, 2003, shall reduce the income eligibility level to up to 37
fifty-five per cent of the state-wide median income for applicants and 38
recipients who qualify based on their loss of eligibility for temporary 39
family assistance. The commissioner may adopt regulations in 40
accordance with chapter 54 to establish income criteria and durational 41
requirements for such waiver of income standards. 42
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 17b-749(a) and (b)
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