education and child development programs and services;
(24) Developing early learning and development standards to be used by early care and education providers; and
(25) Developing and implementing a performance-based evaluation system to evaluate licensed child care centers, in accordance with the provisions of section 17b-749f.
(c) The Office of Early Childhood may enter into memoranda of agreement with and accept donations from nonprofit and philanthropic organizations to accomplish the purposes of this section.
(d) The Office of Early Childhood shall constitute a successor department, in accordance with the provisions of sections 4-38d, 4-38e and 4-39, to (1) the Department of Education with respect to sections 8-210, 10-16n, 10-16p to 10-16r, inclusive, 10-16u, 10-16w, 10-16aa, 17b-749a, 17b-749c and 17b-749g to 17b-749i, inclusive; (2) the Department of Social Services (A) with respect to sections 17b-12, 17b-705a, 17b-730, 17b-733 to 17b-736, inclusive, 17b-738, 17b-749, 17b-749d to 17b-749f, inclusive, 17b-749j, 17b-749k, 17b-750 to 17b-751a, inclusive, and 17b-751d, and (B) for the purpose of administering the child care development block grant pursuant to the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990; and (3) the Department of Public Health (A) with respect to sections 10a-194c, 12-634, 17a-28, 17a-101 and 19a-80f, (B) for the purpose of regulating child care services pursuant to sections 19a-77, 19a-79, 19a-80, 19a-82 and 19a-84 to 19a-87e, inclusive, (C) for the purpose of the conduct of regulation of youth camps, pursuant to sections 19a-420 to 19a-434, inclusive, and (D) for the purpose of administering the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program authorized under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, P.L. 111-148.
(P.A. 14-39, S. 4; P.A. 15-73, S. 5; 15-143, S. 12; 15-227, S. 24-26.)
History: P.A. 14-39 effective May 28, 2014 (Revisor's note: In Subsec. (d)(1), a reference to repealed Sec. 10-16s was replaced editorially by the Revisors with a reference to Sec. 10-16r for accuracy); P.A. 15-73 amended Subsec.(d)(2)(A) to delete reference to Sec. 17b-739, effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 15-143 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective June 30, 2015; P.A. 15-227 amended Subsec. (b)(7) by deleting "and implementing" and replacing "assessment tool" with "entrance inventory" and amended Subsec. (d) by deleting reference to Sec. 17b-751e, effective July 1, 2015; pursuant to P.A. 15-227, "child day care centers" and "child day care services" were changed editorially by the Revisors to "child care centers" and "child care services", respectively, in Subsecs. (b)(25) and (d), effective July 1, 2015.
Section 10-500a - Authority of office re licensing matters.
The Commissioner of Early Childhood may enter into stipulations, agreements, memoranda of understanding, interim consent orders or consent orders relating to licensing matters under chapters 368a and 368r with:
(1) Any person, group of persons, association, organization, corporation, institution or agency, public or private, (A) maintaining (i) a licensed child care center or group child care home, pursuant to section 19a-80, or (ii) a licensed family child care home, pursuant to section 19a-87b, or (B) applying for a license for (i) a child care center