Sec. 17b-748. (Formerly Sec. 19a-78). Child Day Care Council. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 17b-748. (Formerly Sec. 19a-78). Child Day Care Council. There is established a Child Day Care Council consisting of the Commissioner of Public Health, the Commissioner of Social Services, the Commissioner of Children and Families, the Commissioner of Education and the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development or a representative of each designated by him in writing to serve as such representative, and sixteen other persons appointed by the Governor. Said council shall be within the Department of Social Services for administrative purposes only. Of the persons appointed by the Governor, one shall be from among those recommended by the Connecticut Association for Education of Young Children; one shall be a member of a community council; one shall be a member of a community action program; one shall be a member of a child development or early childhood education department of a Connecticut college or university; four shall be providers of child day care services, two of whom shall be family day care providers, and two shall be child day care center providers; one shall be from among those recommended by the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women; one shall be from among those recommended by the Connecticut Commission on Children; one shall be from among those recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics; one shall be a member of an advocacy group concerned with young children and their families; one shall be from among those recommended by the AFL-CIO Labor Council who is a member of organized labor; one shall be a member of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association; and two shall be parents, each of whom shall have a child enrolled in a child day care service. The members of the council shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the course of their duties. The chairperson and the vice-chairperson of the council shall be elected by the full membership of the council from among the persons appointed by the Governor and shall serve for a term of one year. The council shall meet at least ten times per year. Any appointed member who fails to attend three consecutive meetings or fails to attend fifty per cent of all meetings held during any calendar year shall be deemed to have resigned. The council shall recommend to the Commissioner of Public Health regulations which shall effectuate the purposes of this section and sections 17b-733, 19a-77, 19a-79, 19a-80, 19a-82 to 19a-87, inclusive, and 19a-87b to 19a-87e, inclusive, including regulations relating to licensing, operation, program and professional qualifications of the staff of child day care centers, group day care homes and family day care homes and shall make recommendations to the Commissioner of Public Health on the administration of said sections. The Child Day Care Council shall also make recommendations to the Department of Social Services as the lead agency for day care on grants management and the planning and development of child day care services. In addition, the council shall provide guidelines for drop-in supplementary child care operations. Before making such recommendations, the council shall hold public hearings and invite suggestions from parents of children utilizing child day care services, as defined in section 19a-77, and from providers of such services and other interested parties. The Child Day Care Council shall study issues affecting child day care and make recommendations to the General Assembly. The council shall serve as an advisory committee to the Department of Social Services in the development of the state child care plan required pursuant to the Child Care Development and Improvement Act of 1990 and shall conduct biennial public hearings on such state plan.

      (1967, P.A. 696, S. 4; P.A. 73-415; P.A. 74-3; P.A. 75-420, S. 4, 6; 75-527, S. 3, 5; P.A. 76-38, S. 1, 3; P.A. 77-157, S. 2, 11; 77-614, S. 302, 323, 521, 529, 610; P.A. 81-471, S. 68, 71; P.A. 84-361, S. 4, 7; P.A. 85-495, S. 1, 7; 85-613, S. 40, 154; P.A. 87-435, S. 4, 6; P.A. 88-182, S. 1, 3; P.A. 91-292, S. 3, 5; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; 93-262, S. 13, 87; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 94-181, S. 5, 7; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; 95-360, S. 19, 32; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6.)

      History: P.A. 73-415 included commissioner of community affairs as council member and increased members who are not state officials from four to six with one additional member to be parent of child enrolled in tax-supported facility and one to be parent of child enrolled in privately-supported facility; P.A. 74-3 made chairman the commissioner of community affairs or his designee rather than commissioner of health in odd-numbered years alternating with secretary of the state board of education in even-numbered years; P.A. 75-420 replaced welfare commissioner with social services commissioner; P.A. 75-527 included commissioner of children and youth services as council member; P.A. 76-38 removed commissioner of mental health as council member and added director of the office of child day care as member and chairman replacing commissioner of community affairs as chairman; P.A. 77-157 added reference to regulation of group day care homes, added provision re council's duties with regard to family day care homes and supplementary child care operations, made hearings mandatory rather than optional, substituted day care "services" for "centers" and "administrators" for "operators" and established council as advisory body; P.A. 77-614 replaced secretary of the state board of education with commissioner of education, commissioner of health with commissioner of health services and commissioner of social services with commissioner of human resources, removed commissioner of community affairs as council member, deleted reference to two-year terms, required that recommendations be submitted to commissioner of health services rather than to public health council and placed council within human resources department for administrative purposes, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 81-471 added the commissioner of income maintenance and a provider of child day care services to the council's membership; Sec. 19-43c transferred to Sec. 19a-78 in 1983; P.A. 84-361 added commissioner of consumer protection to the council, changed the number of persons appointed by governor from 7 to 8 and specified that one of the persons be recommended by permanent commission on the status of women, added language concerning election of the chairperson, provided for a one-year term and deleted language designating director of the office of child day care as chairman, stated that office of child day care serve as staff, added language on meeting and attendance requirements, required council to study issues affecting child day care and added requirement that recommendations be made to the general assembly; P.A. 85-495 removed references to the office of child day care, provided for the permanent commission on the status of women to serve as staff to the council and added "grants management and the planning and development of child day care services" as areas for recommendations by the council; P.A. 85-613 made technical changes; P.A. 87-435 removed language requiring the permanent commission on the status of women to serve as staff to the council; P.A. 88-182 added the commissioner of economic development to the council, increased the governor's appointments to the council to 16 and specified required characteristics of additional members; P.A. 91-292 added provision re council serving as an advisory committee to the department in developing state child care plan; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-262 replaced commissioner of human resources with commissioner of social services and deleted reference to council membership of the commissioner of income maintenance, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-181 deleted the commissioner of consumer protection from the membership of the council and placed family day care homes under the department of public health and addiction services rather than department of social services, effective July 1, 1994; Sec. 19a-78 transferred to Sec. 17b-748 in 1995; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Economic Development with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 95-360 substituted reference to Sec. 19a-82 for Sec. 19a-81, effective July 13, 1995.

      See title 2c re termination under "Sunset Law".

      See Sec. 4-38f for definition of "administrative purposes only".

      See chapter 54 re uniform administrative procedure.

      See Sec. 19a-77 et seq. re child day care services.