2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 17b - Social Services
Chapter 319rr - Child Care and Protection
Section 17b-734 - (Formerly Sec. 17-592). Grants to municipalities and state agencies for child care facilities.

The Commissioner of Early Childhood shall establish and administer a program of grants to municipalities and state agencies for the purpose of planning, site preparation, construction, renovation or acquisition of facilities for use as child care facilities to be used primarily by the children of employees of such municipalities or state agencies and other potential participants. If openings occur for other potential participants in such a child care facility, priority for such openings shall be given to families at or below seventy-five per cent of the state’s median income.

(P.A. 84-443, S. 14, 20; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 96-262, S. 3, 11; P.A. 14-39, S. 26.)

History: Sec. 17-31x transferred to Sec. 17-592 in 1991; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department of human resources, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17-592 transferred to Sec. 17b-734 in 1995; P.A. 96-262 added “other potential participants” to the list of persons eligible to use child care facilities and required priority to be given to families at or below 75% of the state’s median income if openings occur for other potential participants, effective July 1, 1996; P.A. 14-39 replaced reference to Commissioner of Social Services with reference to Commissioner of Early Childhood, effective July 1, 2014.