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PRINTER'S NO. 2246
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1677
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY ORTITAY, WARD, WATSON AND WHEELAND, JULY 21, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, JULY 21, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), entitled "An
act to consolidate, editorially revise, and codify the public
welfare laws of the Commonwealth," in public assistance,
further providing for meeting special needs and work supports
and incentives and for employment incentive payments; in
departmental powers and duties as to supervision, further
providing for definitions; and, in departmental powers and
duties as to licensing, further providing for definitions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 408(b) and 491(c)(2) of the act of June
13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the Human Services Code, are
amended to read:
Section 408. Meeting Special Needs; Work Supports and
Incentives.--* * *
(b) The department may provide assistance to recipients for
child [day] care when the department has determined that without
such services the recipient would be exempt from compliance with
the conditions of the agreement of mutual responsibility or work
requirements or when a former recipient who is employed has
ceased to receive cash assistance for a reason other than a
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sanction for noncompliance with an eligibility condition. In
establishing the time limits and levels of access to child [day-
care] care funds, the department shall take into account
availability, costs and the number of assistance groups needing
services within the geographic area and shall seek to provide
essential services to the greatest number of recipients.
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Section 491. Employment Incentive Payments.--* * *
(c) * * *
(2) If the employer provides or pays for [day] child care
services for the children of the employe, the employer shall be
eligible to receive an additional employment incentive payment
of six hundred dollars ($600) during the first year of
employment, five hundred dollars ($500) during the second year
of employment, and four hundred dollars ($400) during the third
year of employment.
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Section 2. The definitions of "child day care" and
"children's institutions" in section 901 of the act, amended or
added December 28, 2015 (P.L.500, No.92), are amended to read:
Section 901. Definitions.--As used in this article--
"Child [day] care" means care in lieu of parental care given
for part of the twenty-four hour day to a child under sixteen
years of age, away from the child's home but does not include
child [day] care furnished in a place of worship during
religious services.
"Children's institutions" means any incorporated or
unincorporated organization, society, corporation or agency,
public or private, which may receive or care for children, or
place them in foster family homes, either at board, wages or
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free; or any individual who, for hire, gain or reward, receives
for care a child, unless he is related to such child by blood or
marriage within the second degree; or any individual, not in the
regular employ of the court or of an organization, society,
association or agency, duly certified by the department, who in
any manner becomes a party to the placing of children in foster
homes, unless he is related to such children by blood or
marriage within the second degree, or is the duly appointed
guardian thereof. The term shall not include a family child care
home or child [day] care center operated for profit and subject
to the provisions of Article X.
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Section 3. The definitions of "child day care," "child day
care center," "facility" and "family child care home" in section
1001 of the act, amended or added December 28, 2015 (P.L.500,
No.92), are amended to read:
Section 1001. Definitions.--As used in this article--
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"Child [day] care" means care in lieu of parental care given
for part of the twenty-four hour day to children under sixteen
years of age, away from their own homes, but does not include
child [day] care furnished in places of worship during religious
services.
"Child [day] care center" means any premises operated for
profit in which child [day] care is provided simultaneously for
seven or more children who are not relatives of the operator,
except such centers operated under social service auspices.
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"Facility" means an adult day care center, child [day] care
center, family child care home, boarding home for children,
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mental health establishment, personal care home, assisted living
residence, nursing home, hospital or maternity home, as defined
herein, except to the extent that such a facility is operated by
the State or Federal governments or those supervised by the
department or licensed pursuant to the act of July 19, 1979
(P.L.130, No.48), known as the "Health Care Facilities Act."
"Family child care home" means a home where child [day] care
is provided at any time to no less than four children and no
more than six children who are not relatives of the caregiver.
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Section 4. Within one year of the effective date of this
section, the Department of Human Services shall amend any
regulation at 55 Pa. Code Pt. V that uses the term "day care" as
it relates to children and replace the term with the term "child
care."
Section 5. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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