Bill Text: NY A01341 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to access to the central register for child abuse and maltreatment; expands the definition of "provider agency" to include child care and school-based programs for children ages three through five regulated by the health code of the city of New York and temporary employment agencies and educational and training institutions providing child care staff; clarifies the definition of "licensing agency" to include the department of health and mental hygiene of the city of New York, when such department receives an application for a permit to provide child care or receives a notice of a school based program for children ages three through five.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [A01341 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01341-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1341
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. TITUS, ROBERTS, COOK, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A. MARKEY -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Children and Families
        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to the statewide
          central register for child abuse and maltreatment
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  3  and  4  of  section  424-a of the social
     2  services law, subdivision 3 as amended by section 8 of part D of chapter
     3  501 of the laws of 2012 and subdivision 4 as amended by chapter  126  of
     4  the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows:
     5    3.  For  purposes  of  this  [section]  title,  the term "provider" or
     6  "provider agency" shall mean an authorized agency, the office  of  chil-
     7  dren  and  family services, juvenile detention facilities subject to the
     8  certification of such office, programs established pursuant  to  article
     9  nineteen-H of the executive law, non-residential or residential programs
    10  or facilities licensed or operated by the office of mental health or the
    11  office  for  people  with  developmental disabilities except family care
    12  homes, licensed child day care centers, including  head  start  programs
    13  which are funded pursuant to title V of the federal economic opportunity
    14  act  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-four,  as  amended, early intervention
    15  service established pursuant to section twenty-five hundred forty of the
    16  public health law, preschool services established  pursuant  to  section
    17  forty-four  hundred  ten  of  the  education  law, school-age child care
    18  programs, special act school districts as  enumerated  in  chapter  five
    19  hundred  sixty-six  of  the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred sixty-seven, as
    20  amended, programs and facilities licensed by the  office  of  alcoholism
    21  and  substance  abuse  services, residential schools which are operated,
    22  supervised or approved by  the  education  department,  child  care  and
    23  school-based  programs  for children ages three though five regulated by
    24  the health code of the city of New York, temporary  employment  agencies
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06579-01-5
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