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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 6180
January Session, 2025
AN ACT CONCERNING NOTICE OF FIREARMS BY OPERATORS OF
FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2025) (a) For the purposes of this 1
section, "firearm" has the same meaning as provided in section 53a-3 of 2
the general statutes. 3
(b) Not later than January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, each 4
operator of a family child care home licensed pursuant to section 19a-5
87b of the general statutes, in which one or more firearms is stored, shall 6
provide written notification of the presence of each such firearm to a 7
parent or guardian of each child enrolled in such home. Such 8
notification shall (1) include a list of the number and type of each firearm 9
stored in such home, and (2) require a parent or guardian to 10
acknowledge receipt of such notification by providing such parent or 11
guardian's signature. On and after January 1, 2026, such written 12
notification shall be provided to a parent or guardian of each child 13
enrolling in any such home for the first time. Such operator shall 14
maintain each signed acknowledgment of receipt for not less than three 15
years, and make such signed acknowledgments available to the Office 16
of Early Childhood for inspection upon request. 17
(c) Not later than February 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, each 18
operator of a family child care home in which one or more firearms is 19 Substitute Bill No. 6180
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stored shall, in a form and manner prescribed by the Commissioner of 20
Early Childhood, confirm compliance with the provisions of subsection 21
(b) of this section during the preceding calendar year. 22
Sec. 2. Subsection (a) of section 19a-87e of the general statutes is 23
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 24
2025): 25
(a) The Commissioner of Early Childhood may (1) refuse to license 26
under section 19a-87b, a person to own, conduct, operate or maintain a 27
family child care home, as defined in section 19a-77, (2) refuse to 28
approve under section 19a-87b, a person to act as an assistant or 29
substitute staff member in a family child care home, as defined in section 30
19a-77, or (3) suspend or revoke the license or approval or take any other 31
action that may be set forth in regulation that may be adopted pursuant 32
to section 19a-79 if the person who owns, conducts, maintains or 33
operates the family child care home, the person who acts as an assistant 34
or substitute staff member in a family child care home, a person 35
employed in such family child care home in a position connected with 36
the provision of care to a child receiving child care services or a 37
household member, as defined in subsection (c) of section 19a-87b, who 38
is sixteen years of age or older and resides therein, has been convicted, 39
in this state or any other state of a felony, as defined in section 53a-25, 40
involving the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force 41
against another person, or has a criminal record in this state or any other 42
state that the commissioner reasonably believes renders the person 43
unsuitable to own, conduct, operate or maintain or be employed by a 44
family child care home, or act as an assistant or substitute staff member 45
in a family child care home, or if such persons or a household member 46
has been convicted in this state or any other state of cruelty to persons 47
under section 53-20, injury or risk of injury to or impairing morals of 48
children under section 53-21, abandonment of children under the age of 49
six years under section 53-23, or any felony where the victim of the 50
felony is a child under eighteen years of age, a violation of section 53a-51
70b of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2019, 52
or section 53a-70, 53a-70a, 53a-71, 53a-72a, 53a-72b or 53a-73a, illegal 53 Substitute Bill No. 6180
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manufacture, distribution, sale, prescription, dispensing or 54
administration under section 21a-277 or 21a-278, or illegal possession 55
under section 21a-279, or if such person, a person who acts as assistant 56
or substitute staff member in a family child care home or a person 57
employed in such family child care home in a position connected with 58
the provision of care to a child receiving child care services, either fails 59
to substantially comply with the regulations adopted pursuant to 60
section 19a-87b, or conducts, operates or maintains the home in a 61
manner [which] that endangers the health, safety and welfare of the 62
children receiving child care services, including, but not limited to, by a 63
failure to comply with the provisions of section 1 of this act. Any refusal 64
of a license or approval pursuant to this section shall be rendered in 65
accordance with the provisions of sections 46a-79 to 46a-81, inclusive. 66
Any person whose license or approval has been revoked pursuant to 67
this section shall be ineligible to apply for a license or approval for a 68
period of one year from the effective date of revocation. 69
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2025 New section
Sec. 2 July 1, 2025 19a-87e(a)
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In Section 1(b), "19a-97b" was changed to "19a-87b" for accuracy, and
"the parent" was changed to "a parent" for clarity; in Section 1(b)(2),
"such parent" was changed to "a parent" for clarity, and "2027" was
changed to "2026" for consistency; and in Section 2(a), "which
endangers" was changed to "[which] that endangers" for consistency
with standard drafting conventions, and "by a" was inserted before
"failure" for clarity.
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