South Carolina General Assembly
125th Session, 2023-2024

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S. 1218

STATUS INFORMATION

Joint Resolution
Sponsors: Family and Veterans' Services Committee
Document Path: LC-0676WAB-RT24.docx

Introduced in the Senate on March 27, 2024
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Family and Veterans' Services

Summary: DSS - JR to Approve Doc No. 5229

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date Body Action Description with journal page number
3/27/2024 Senate Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar without reference (Senate Journal-page 4)
3/28/2024 Scrivener's error corrected
4/25/2024 Senate Recommitted to Committee on Family and Veterans' Services (Senate Journal-page 25)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

03/27/2024
03/27/2024-A
03/28/2024



INTRODUCED

March 27, 2024

S. 1218

Introduced by Senate - Family and Veterans' Services

S. Printed 03/27/24--S.   [SEC 3/28/2024 3:16 PM]

Read the first time March 27, 2024

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A JOINT RESOLUTION

TO APPROVE REGULATIONS OF THE Department of Social Services, RELATING TO Family Day Care Homes, DESIGNATED AS REGULATION DOCUMENT NUMBER 5229, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 23, TITLE 1 OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1.   The regulations of the Department of Social Services, relating to Family Day Care Homes, designated as Regulation Document Number 5229, and submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to the provisions of Article 1, Chapter 23, Title 1 of the S.C. Code, are approved.

SECTION 2.   This joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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SUMMARY AS SUBMITTED

BY PROMULGATING AGENCY.

The Department of Social Services is repealing Regulation 114-528 and proposing Regulations 114-530 to 114-537 to establish and maintain standards for family child care homes that are reasonably aligned with recommended standards of national organizations and which further the Department's mission to establish and maintain standards that protect the health, safety, and well-being of children receiving care in family child care homes.

The Department of Social Services is responsible for establishing and promulgating rules and regulations for the proper operation of family child care homes and for the care and protection of children who are in family child care homes. The existing regulations regarding family child care homes (S.C. Code of Regulations 114-528) need to be repealed and replaced with proposed Regulations 114-530 through 114-537.

The Department of Social Services is proposing regulations that set forth the requirements for family child care homes. The proposed regulations are designed to promote the health, safety, and welfare of the children who are to be served by assuring safe and adequate physical surroundings and healthful food and by assuring supervision and care of the children by capable, qualified personnel of sufficient number.

The Notice of Drafting was published in the State Register on May 26, 2023.

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