History: 1967 act added nurses, teachers, principals and social workers; 1969 act included licensed practical nurses in Subsec. (a); 1971 act inserted new Subsec. (a) stating policy of state, relettered former Subsecs. (a) and (b) as (b) and (c), included medical examiners, police officers and clergymen in Subsec. (b), formerly (a), clarified and expanded provisions re circumstances requiring report, clarified to whom oral and written reports to be made in Subsec. (c), added Subsecs. (d) to (g) and designated former Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (h), making minor changes to reach conformity with rest of section as amended; P.A. 73-205 included dentists, psychologists and school guidance counselors in Subsec. (b) and added provision imposing fine for failure to report as required, amended Subsec. (c) to delete reports to health commissioner and impose 72-hour deadline for written report, amended Subsec. (d) to refer to examination rather than treatment of child, to require physician to advise parents, guardians etc. and to extend hospital custody period from 72 to 96 hours, amended Subsec. (f) to describe qualities appointed counsel must possess and to require court rather than welfare commissioner to pay fee and amended Subsec. (g) to make welfare commissioner rather than health commissioner responsible for registry; P.A. 74-293 included coroners, osteopaths, optometrists, chiropractors, podiatrists, day care center employees and mental health professionals in Subsec. (b), substituted “shall” for “may” in Subsec. (f)(2) thereby making representation by counsel mandatory and imposed deadline for adoption of regulations in Subsec. (g); P.A. 75-270 replaced welfare commissioner and department with commissioner and department of children and youth services and added provisions in Subsec. (e) for temporary custody of child; P.A. 75-384 returned duties to welfare department and commissioner, included emotional maltreatment in Subsec. (b), added provision re counsel as guardian ad litem in Subsec. (f), clarified confidentiality provision in Subsec. (g) and added provision re penalty for violation of section; P.A. 75-420 replaced welfare commissioner and department with commissioner and department of social services; P.A. 76-27 included action by commissioner of children and youth services in Subsec. (e); P.A. 76-436 replaced juvenile court with superior court in Subsecs. (d) to (f), effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 77-308 amended Subsec. (b) to refer to abuse of child by person responsible for his health, welfare or care or by person given access to child by responsible person and added reference to children neglected as defined in Sec. 17-53; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 replaced social services commissioner and department with commissioner and department of human resources and made state police department a division within the department of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-631 replaced commissioner and department of human resources with commissioner and department of children and youth services; P.A. 80-190 deleted coroners in Subsec. (b); P.A. 81-91 substituted commissioner of children and youth services for commissioner of human resources in Subsec. (c); P.A. 81-472 made technical changes; P.A. 82-203 amended Subsec. (b) by substituting sexual abuse and sexual exploitation for sexual molestation in the list of examples of conditions that are the result of maltreatment; P.A. 86-337 added requirement that commissioner of children and youth services immediately notify appropriate law enforcement agency of reports of child abuse; P.A. 88-218 added physician assistants, Connecticut certified substance abuse counselors and Connecticut certified marital and family therapists to the list of persons required to report child abuse in Subsec. (b) and made a technical change in Subsec. (g); P.A. 88-333 in Subsec. (b) added a school employee as a person who has inflicted injuries, in Subsecs. (b) and (c) added reporting requirements when it is suspected or believed that the injuries were inflicted by a school employee, in Subsec. (e) specified who is to investigate when a report concerns suspected or believed injuries by a school employee and added Subdiv. (3) re reporting and suspension when an investigation produces evidence that a child has been abused by a school employee, in Subsec. (f) specified what happens if a school employee is convicted of a crime involving an act of child abuse and added Subsec. (i) re the assignment of designees by a school superintendent; P.A. 89-160 amended Subsec. (c) to require the commissioner of children and youth services and the local police department or state police to notify each other when either receives an oral report alleging serious physical abuse or sexual abuse of a child, amended Subsec. (d) to allow physicians examining a child with respect to whom abuse is suspected to perform diagnostic tests and procedures necessary for the detection of child abuse, the expenses for such tests and procedures paid for by the parents or if they are unable to pay, by the commissioner, amended Subsec. (d) to allow the commissioner during the period of temporary custody, to provide the child with all necessary care including medical care consisting of an examination, with or without parental consent and diagnostic tests and procedures necessary to detect child abuse and amended Subsec. (g) to require the commissioner to disclose the information in the registry of child abuse reports received to the legislative program review and investigations committee when requested and under certain conditions protecting confidentiality; P.A. 89-168 added a new Subsec. (j) which requires each local and regional board of education to adopt a written policy regarding the reporting, by school employees, of suspected child abuse; Sec. 17-38a transferred to Sec. 17a-101 in 1991; P.A. 92-76 included school paraprofessionals in Subsec. (b), amended Subsec. (c) to require report to commissioner of education in cases involving certified school employees, amended Subsec. (e) to require notification of commissioner of education in investigations involving certified school employees and to add language concerning certification revocation proceedings and made technical changes in Subsec. (f); P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-340 amended Subsec. (b) to add dental hygienists, pharmacists, physical therapists, sexual assault counselors and battered women's counselors to list of persons required to report suspected child abuse and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-221 amended Subsec. (f) to add notice by the state's attorney of persons holding certificates issued by the State Board of Education, expanded the reasons for the notice to include violations of Secs. 53a-71 and 53a-73a, substituted notice to the commissioner of education for notice to the State Board of Education and deleted provision for the commencement of certification revocation proceedings; P.A. 95-103 amended Subsec. (f) by adding provision that separate guardian ad litem not required to be attorney; P.A. 95-289 changed marital and family therapists from “Connecticut certified” to “licensed”; P.A. 96-246 amended Subsec. (b) by listing mandated reporters and deleting rest of subsection and deleted former Subsecs. (c) to (j), inclusive, and added new Subsec. (c) re development of educational training program for prompt identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect; P.A. 99-102 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting obsolete references to chapter 371 and osteopaths and making a technical change; P.A. 00-49 amended Subsec. (a) by making technical changes and adding the Child Advocate and any employee of the Office of Child Advocate as mandated reporters, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 02-106 amended Subsec. (b) to add a coach of intramural or interscholastic athletics as a mandated reporter; P.A. 02-138 amended Subsec. (b) to replace “clergyman” with “member of the clergy”, replace “licensed substance abuse counselor” with “licensed or certified alcohol and drug counselor”, replace “day care center” with “child day care center” and add as mandated reporters a school coach, juvenile or adult probation officer, juvenile or adult parole officer, any person who is a licensed or certified emergency medical services provider, any person who is a licensed professional counselor, any person paid to care for a child in any group day care home licensed by the state, any employee of the Department of Children and Families and any employee of the Department of Public Health who is responsible for the licensing of child day care centers, group day care homes, family day care homes or youth camps and added new Subsec. (d) re participation of mandated reporters who fail to report in an educational and training program established by the commissioner; P.A. 09-185 amended Subsec. (b) by expanding mandated reporters to include any person licensed as a foster parent, effective July 1, 2009; P.A. 09-242 amended Subsec. (b) to include school superintendent as a mandated reporter and make a technical change; P.A. 10-43 amended Subsec. (a) to add reference to reporting of suspected child neglect and amended Subsec. (b) to include family relations counselor, family relations counselor trainee and family services supervisor employed by Judicial Department as mandated reporters; P.A. 11-93 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing titles of school employees with “school employee, as defined in section 53a-65”, amended Subsec. (c) by adding provisions re development of refresher training program and re training to be provided to all new school employees and added Subsec. (e) re model mandated reporting policy, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-82 deleted former Subsec. (d) re participation in educational and training program by mandated reporters who fail to report suspected abuse or neglect and redesignated existing Subsec. (e) as Subsec. (d); P.A. 12-119 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective June 15, 2012; P.A. 13-214 amended Subsec. (b) to substitute “domestic violence counselor” for “battered women's counselor”; P.A. 14-39 amended Subsec. (b) to include any employee of Office of Early Childhood as a mandated reporter, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 14-186 amended Subsec. (b) by adding Subdiv. (1) to (10), (15) to (34), (36) and (37) designators, adding as a mandated reporter Subdiv. (11) re person who holds or is issued coaching permit or is coach of intramural or interscholastic athletics, Subdiv. (12) re individual employed as coach or director of youth athletics, Subdiv. (13) re individual employed as coach or director of private youth sports organization, league or team, Subdiv. (14) re paid administrator, faculty, staff, athletic director, athletic coach or athletic trainer employed by institution of higher education and Subdiv. (35) re paid youth camp director or assistant director, and making technical changes; P.A. 15-143 amended Subsec. (b) by redesignating existing provision in Subdiv. (34) re employee of Office of Early Childhood as new Subdiv. (35) and redesignating existing Subdivs. (35) to (37) as Subdivs. (36) to (38), effective June 30, 2015; P.A. 15-205 amended Subsec. (c) to add provision re refresher training program to be provided to each school employee, effective July 1, 2015; pursuant to P.A. 15-227, references to child day care center, group day care home and family day care home were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to child care center, group child care home and family child care home, respectively, in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 16-163 made a technical change in Subsec. (b)(10), effective June 9, 2016; P.A. 17-81 amended Subsec. (c) by replacing reference to Sec. 17a-101i(f) with reference to Sec. 17a-101i(g), effective July 1, 2017; P.A. 18-17 amended Subsec. (b) by adding licensed behavior analysts to list of mandated reporters as new Subdiv. (38) and redesignating existing Subdiv. (38) as Subdiv. (39), effective July 1, 2018; P.A. 19-64 amended Subsec. (b) by adding Subdiv. (40), codified by the Revisors as new Subdiv. (39), re victim services advocate employed by Judicial Department, and making a technical change, effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 19-118 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting former Subdiv. (34) re employee of Department of Public Health and redesignating existing Subdivs. (35) to (39) as new Subdivs. (34) to (38), effective July 1, 2019; P.A. 19-120 amended Subsec. (b) by adding person who has regular contact with and provides services to or on behalf of children pursuant to contract with or credential issued by Department of Children and Families in Subdiv. (33), adding Subdiv. (40) re victim services advocate employed by Office of Victim Services within Judicial Department, adding Subdiv. (41) re employee of juvenile justice program operated by or pursuant to contract with Court Support Services Division of Judicial Department and making a technical change; P.A. 19-187 amended Subsec. (b) by adding Subdiv. (40) re person employed to work at juvenile detention facility or other facility where children under age 18 are detained and who has direct contact with children as part of employment, effective July 1, 2020 (Revisor's note: In 2021, the Revisors incorporated editorially the amendments made by P.A. 19-64, S. 1, P.A. 19-118, S. 24 and P.A. 19-120, S. 1, into Subsec. (b), which in 2020 were inadvertently not incorporated into the version of the section effective July 1, 2020, and redesignated Subdiv. (40) as Subdiv. (41), in order to reconcile the amendments with those made by P.A. 19-187, S. 6; P.A. 22-87 amended Subsec. (b)(35) by adding “and staff member who is twenty-one years of age or older” and making a conforming change and amended Subsec. (d) by deleting “On or before October 1, 2011, the” and making a conforming change.