Licensing Standards for DayCare Centers

Regulations, Civil Penalties, Exemptions

(amended by Public Act 95-360, Sec. 16, Effective 7/13/95)

(a) The commissioner of public health and addiction services shall adopt regulations to further the purposes of sections 19a-77 to 19a-80, inclusive, and 19a-81 to 19a-87, inclusive, and to assure that child day care centers and group day care homes shall meet the health, educational and social needs of children utilizing such centers and group day care homes. Such regulations shall

(1) specify that before being permitted to attend any child day care center or group day care home, each child must be protected as age-appropriate by adequate immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, hemophilus influenza type B and any other vaccine required by the schedule of active immunization adopted pursuant to section 19a-7f including appropriate exemptions for children for whom such immunization is medically contraindicated and for children whose parents object to such immunization on religious grounds,

(2) specify conditions under which child day care center directors and teachers and group day care home providers may administer medicinal preparations, including controlled drugs specified in the regulations by the commissioner, to a child receiving child day care services at such center or group day care home pursuant to the written order of a physician licensed to practice medicine or a dentist licensed to practice dental medicine in this or another state, or an advanced practice registered nurse licensed to prescribe in accordance with section 20-94a, or a physician assistant licensed to prescribe in accordance with section 20-12d, and the written authorization of a parent or guardian of such child,

(3) specify that an operator of a child day care center or group day care home, licensed before January 1, 1986, or an operator who receives a license after January 1, 1986, for a facility licensed prior to January 1, 1986, shall provide a minimum of thirty square feet per child of total indoor usable space, free of furniture except that needed for the children's purposes, exclusive of toilet rooms, bathrooms, coatrooms, kitchens, halls, isolation room or other rooms used for purposes other than the activities of the children, and

(4) specify that a child day care center or group day care home licensed after January 1, 1986, shall provide thirty-five square feet per child of total indoor usable space.

[(b)] (c) The commissioner of public health and addiction services shall exempt Montessori schools accredited by the American Montessori Society or the Association Montessori International from any provision in regulations adopted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section which sets requirements on group size or child to staff ratios or the provision of cots.

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