Revision: Dec. 13, 2022, 2:07 p.m.
2023 SESSION
23-0806.0
06/04
SENATE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to small group child day care centers.
SPONSORS: [sponsors]
COMMITTEE: [committee]
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
ANALYSIS
This bill creates a definition for "small group child day care center" and modifies the definition of "child day care agency."
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0806.0
06/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to small group child day care centers.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subparagraph; Child Day Care Licensing; Definitions. Amend RSA 170-E:2, IV by inserting after subparagraph (h) the following new subparagraph:
(i) “Small group child day care center” means a child day care agency in which child day care is provided for not more than 12 preschool children, whether or not the service is known as day nursery, nursery school, kindergarten, cooperative, child development center, day care center, center for the developmentally disabled, progressive school, Montessori school, or by any other name.
2 Child Day Care Licensing; Definitions. Amend RSA 170-E:2, IV(a) and (b) to read as follows:
(a) "Family day care home" means an occupied residence in which child day care is provided for less than 24 hours per day, except in emergencies, for up to 6 children from one or more unrelated families. The 6 children shall include any foster children residing in the home and all children who are related to the caregiver except children who are 10 years of age or older. [In addition to the 6 children, up to 3 children attending a full day school program may also be cared for up to 5 hours per day on school days and all day during school holidays.]
(b) "Family group day care home" means an occupied residence in which child day care is provided for less than 24 hours per day, except in emergencies, for 7 to 12 children from one or more unrelated families. The 12 children shall include all children related to the caregiver and any foster children residing in the home, except children who are 10 years of age or older. [In addition to the 12 children, up to 5 children attending a full day school program may also be cared for up to 5 hours per day on school days and all day during school holidays.]
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.