HB 5169 Summary

• Modifies immunization requirements for child care centers, group child care homes, and family child care homes to allow religious exemptions accompanied by notarized statements from parents or guardians

• Expands family child care home regulations to permit up to three additional school-age children during summer months with an approved assistant present, and allows extended care up to 72 consecutive hours

• Changes emergency notification procedures so the Office of Early Childhood shares day care facility contact information with the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection for emergency notification systems rather than local police departments

• Revises background check requirements for child care subsidy recipients, requiring relatives to undergo sexual offender registry checks and child abuse registry checks rather than full criminal history checks

• Modifies school readiness grant coordination funding from a fixed minimum of $25,000 to five percent of total grant allocation to allow flexibility based on town grant awards and number of operating sites