(1) The department of public health and environment and the department of human services, in conjunction with representatives of the nursing home industry, child care operators, and experts on child care programs in nursing home facilities, shall examine and study the existing statutes and rules and regulations concerning the licensing of child care centers and of nursing home facilities to determine what statutory or regulatory changes or both would make it easier for a nursing home facility to operate a child care center. The study shall also include an examination of the advantages and disadvantages of operating such intergenerational programs and the most appropriate and practical ways to design such intergenerational child care programs which are beneficial both to the children and to the elderly persons.
(2) The study conducted by the department of public health and environment and the department of human services shall include, but need not be limited to, consideration of the following:
The establishment of new rules and regulations by the department of public healthand environment and the department of human services which would allow nursing home facilities to operate a child care operation in the nursing home facilities;
A coordinated licensure program to license a child care operation in a nursing homefacility which would be based on rules and regulations designed specifically for the operation of a child care center in a nursing home facility.
Repealed.
The department of public health and environment and the department of human services shall comply with the requirements of this part 10 within the current appropriation established for each department. No request for appropriations shall be made to the general assembly for the implementation of this part 10.
Source: L. 88: Entire part added, p. 1005, § 1, effective April 28. L. 94: (1), IP(2), (2)(a), (3), and (4) amended, p. 2747, § 396, effective July 1. L. 96: (3) repealed, p. 1257, § 147, effective August 7.
Cross references: For the legislative declaration contained in the 1994 act amending subsection (1), the introductory portion to subsection (2), and subsections (2)(a), (3), and (4), see section 1 of chapter 345, Session Laws of Colorado 1994. For the legislative declaration contained in the 1996 act amending this section, see section 1 of chapter 237, Session Laws of Colorado 1996.