GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1050

Short Title:  Change "Day Care”Definition.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Richardson; and Walker.
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Referred to:  Human Resources.
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June 1, 1992

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "DAY CARE”TO EXCLUDE DROP-IN CARE AND TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES TO STUDY HOW TO ENSURE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF CHILDREN IN DROP-IN CARE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 110-86(2) reads as rewritten:
"(2)	Child day care. – Any child care arrangement wherein three or more children less than 13 years old receive care away from their own home by persons other than their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, first cousins, guardians or full-time custodians, or in the child's own home where other unrelated children are in care.  Child day care does not include seasonal recreational programs operated for less than four consecutive months in a year.  Child day care also does not include arrangements that provide only drop-in or short-term child care for parents participating in activities that are not employment related and where the parents are on the premises or otherwise easily accessible, such as drop-in or short-term child care offered in health spas, bowling alleys, shopping malls, resort hotels, and churches."
Sec. 2.  The Department of Human Resources shall conduct a study of how the State may assure the health and safety of those children provided care in the drop-in and short-term care excluded from day care regulation pursuant to Section 1 of this act.  The Department shall report its findings, together with any legislative recommendations, to the Legislative Research Commission Study Committee on Child Care Issues by November 1, 1992.
Sec. 3.  The Department of Human Resources shall adopt rules to define "easily accessible”and any other specific rules necessary to implement this act.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.