Sec. 17b-749k. Criminal history records checks and child abuse registry checks for purposes of child care subsidy program. Refusal to provide payments.
Sec. 17b-749k. Criminal history records checks and child abuse registry
checks for purposes of child care subsidy program. Refusal to provide payments.
(a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall, within available appropriations, require
any person, other than a relative, providing child care services to a child in the child's
home who receives a child care subsidy from the Department of Social Services to
submit to state and national criminal history records checks. The criminal history records
checks required pursuant to this subsection shall be conducted in accordance with section
29-17a. The commissioner shall also request a check of the state child abuse registry
established pursuant to section 17a-101k.
(b) The Commissioner of Social Services shall have the discretion to refuse payments for child care under any financial assistance program administered by him if the
person providing such child care has been convicted in this state or any other state of a
felony, as defined in section 53a-25, involving the use, attempted use or threatened use
of physical force against another person, of cruelty to persons under section 53-20, injury
or risk of injury to or impairing morals of children under section 53-21, abandonment of
children under the age of six years under section 53-23 or any felony where the victim
of the felony is a child under eighteen years of age, or of a violation of section 53a-70,
53a-70a, 53a-70b, 53a-71, 53a-72a, 53a-72b or 53a-73a, or has a criminal record or was
the subject of a substantiated report of child abuse in this state or any other state that the
commissioner reasonably believes renders the person unsuitable to provide child care.
(P.A. 97-259, S. 38, 41; P.A. 01-175, S. 11, 32; P.A. 03-243, S. 9; P.A. 05-207, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 97-259 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 01-175 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing language re criminal records
checks as a permissive request with language re mandatory state and national criminal history records checks pursuant to
Sec. 29-17a, deleting language re fee and making technical changes, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 03-243 amended Subsec.
(a) by adding "for perpetrator information"; P.A. 05-207 amended Subsec. (a) to delete requirement that commissioner
check state child abuse registry for perpetrator information.