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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6113
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN
Introduced by:
(KID)
AN ACT REQUIRING THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION
CONCERNING CHILD SEX UAL ABUSE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) As used in this section: 1
(1) "Operator" has the same meaning as provided in section 21a-432 2
of the general statutes; 3
(2) "Youth athletic activity" has the same meaning as provided in 4
section 21a-432 of the general statutes; 5
(3) "Youth camp" has the same meaning as provided in section 19a-6
420 of the general statutes; and 7
(4) "Youth coach" means any person who (A) holds or is issued a 8
coaching permit by the State Board of Education, or (B) volunteers or is 9
paid to act as a head coach, manager or instructor or an assistant coach, 10
assistant manager or assistant instructor of a youth athletic activity. 11
(b) (1) Not later than December 1, 2021, the Department of Children 12
and Families, in collaboration with a national association of adult 13 Raised Bill No. 6113
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survivors of child abuse, shall (A) develop guidelines that provide 14
instruction and best practices to youth coaches concerning ways to 15
appropriately interact with youth athletes, and (B) make such guidelines 16
available on the department's Internet web site. 17
(2) Not later than January 1, 2022, and annually thereafter, each 18
operator shall distribute a copy of the guidelines developed pursuant to 19
subdivision (1) of this subsection to each youth coach for such operator. 20
Such distribution may occur by electronic mail. 21
(c) (1) Not later than December 1, 2021, the Department of Children 22
and Families, in collaboration with a national association of adult 23
survivors of child abuse, shall (A) develop guidelines that describe (i) 24
the stages of grooming typically employed by those who engage in child 25
sexual abuse, (ii) behaviors that victims of child sexual abuse may 26
engage in or exhibit as the result of such sexual abuse, (iii) for victims of 27
child sexual abuse, how to tell a parent or other adult that such sexual 28
abuse has occurred, and (iv) how to contact the appropriate authorities 29
if child sexual abuse has occurred, and (B) make such guidelines 30
available on the department's Internet web site. 31
(2) On and after January 1, 2022, upon the enrollment or registration 32
of any participant in a youth athletic activity, each operator shall 33
distribute a copy of the guidelines developed pursuant to subdivision 34
(1) of this subsection to the parent or guardian of such participant. Such 35
distribution may occur by electronic mail. 36
(3) On and after January 1, 2022, upon the enrollment or registration 37
of any child in a youth camp, the licensee of such youth camp shall 38
distribute a copy of the guidelines developed pursuant to subdivision 39
(1) of this subsection to the parent or guardian of such child. Such 40
distribution may occur by electronic mail. 41
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
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Statement of Purpose:
To require the Department of Children and Families to develop, and
operators of youth athletic activities and licensees of youth camps to
distribute, information concerning appropriate interactions with
children and child sexual abuse.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]