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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 192
BY SENATORS MOUNT, CHEEK AND SHAW AND REPRESENTATI VE JANE
SMITH
CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION. Provides for an exemption to licensure as a day care
center for certain religious organizations. (gov sig)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 46:1427, relative to child care facilities and child-placing agencies; to provide2
with respect to licensure; to provide for an exception for certain religious3
organizations; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 46:1427 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง1427. Exceptions; religious organizations7
A recognized religious organization which is qualified as a tax-exempt8
organization under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, which remains9
open for not more than twenty-four hours in a continuous seven-day week, and10
in which no individual child remains for more than twenty-four hours in one11
continuous stay shall not be considered a "day care center" for purposes of this12
Chapter.13
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not14
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature15
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If16
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become17 SB NO. 192
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effective on the day following such approval.1
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Greg Waddell.
DIGEST
Proposed law provides an exception to licensure as a day care center for a recognized
religious organization which is qualified as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)
of the Internal Revenue Code, which remains open for not more than twenty-four hours in
a continuous seven-day week, and in which no individual child remains for more than
twenty-four hours in one continuous stay.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Adds R.S. 46:1427)